Internetnews.com reports that “[t]he House Committee on Small Business took a look at the issue [of Internet taxation] today, hearing testimony from online mom-and-pop shops who are urging Congress to enact a permanent ban on discriminatory and access taxes. Affordable Internet access -- free of the kind of taxes that [...]

CNetNews.com writes that “[a] legal team enforcing the most widely used license in the open-source and free software movement has shown that it's not afraid to take its cases all the way to court.  For years, violations of the General Public License, or GPL, have been met with quiet discussions [...]

Our friend Andrew Noyes attempts to answer that question for the Tech industry over at National Journal's Tech Daily Dose. Thankfully, SCOTUS had our backs this session. The Court helped to raise the bar for patentability and lessen the value of junk patents that have already made it through the [...]

The Wall Street Journal writes that “Egypt and Saudi Arabia, long considered bureaucratic mazes, changed their laws and regulations to make it substantially easier to start and run businesses, according to a yearly World Bank report that tracks business reforms globally.  […]  The bank has regularly lauded the Eastern European [...]

The Washington Post reports that “[t]he World Trade Organization opened a formal investigation into allegations China is providing a haven for product piracy and counterfeiting, the most far-reaching of four trade disputes between Washington and Beijing.” According to Wired, “Google's reported interest in laying a new trans-Pacific underwater fiber optic [...]