Twitter's transparency report shows that governmental requests for data have grown over the course of 2012. Governments from around the world made 1,858 requests for Twitter data during the second half of 2012 – up from 849 requests in the first half.
In 2010, those same companies spent $122.9 million lobbying governmental officials. Google spent more on U.S.lobbying efforts than any other technology firm in America, according to statistics from the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP).
The company was sued for governmental censorship last year. Three employees of Chinese search engine Baidu have been arrested for taking bribes to delete postings. According to the BBC, the bribery ring netted a profit of thousands of pounds.
For example, if your selling medical products, then you would need to provide a governmental license permitting you to do so. With more than 500 million Internet users, China is by far the world’s largest online market.
The biggest downside for Google resides in how the governmental bodies would react to such a move when they already have their eyes on Google for monopolistic tendencies in a number of countries. As bank robber Willie Sutton is famously misquoted...
Wael Ghonim, the Google Middle East employee who was detained during the revolt in Egypt announced he will be taking a long-term leave of absence from the company to start a non-governmental organization in Egypt.
Wael Ghonim, the Google Middle East employee who was detained during the revolt in Egypt announced he will be taking a long-term leave of absence from the company to start a non-governmental organization in Egypt, Wired reported.
Facebook has faced some serious challenges in breaking into the German market, including governmental legal proceedings aimed at Facebook's privacy policies and use of collected personal data. Just ask the citizens of Egypt, where social networks...
Susan Collins, the Republican ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told Wired magazine that there was a need for "kill switch" legislation that "would provide a mechanism for the government to work with the...
Susan Collins, the Republican ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told Wired magazine that there was a need for "kill switch" legislation that "would provide a mechanism for the government to work with the...
Since the projected value of virtual goods is expected to top ten billion dollars (US) in 2011, it is probably an inevitable conclusion that at some point governmental agencies are going to look into taxing those goods to get a cut of the action.
According to Wikipedia, it's an acronym for quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation. Oldham, Software Engineer at Google, posted "Brits search for a leader" last night -- about three hours after Dan Hoffman, Director of Real Estate and...
A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: our growth strategies; our future business development, results of operations...
A website can be coded to be accessible to blind people by complying with the Web Content Accessibility standards as set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (found at http://w3c.org/wai) or by the standards promulgated by the Governmental...
Companies that could benefit might include those that are subject to governmental regulation in all their communications with their customers, such as stock brokerages. The Google Apps group is continuing to put out interesting updates.
The new Yahoo International Fellowship will be aimed at journalists from countries where there are restrictions on freedom of the press, either by governmental agencies or other forces, said James Bettinger, director of the
The International Publishers Association is a Non Governmental Several mostly print publisher groups say they are to test a new "Automated Content Access Protocol" that they feel will head off conflicts with search engines.
I personally commend SEOMoz for posting the details on the 20 governmental sites with this exploit. SEOMoz has some excellent examples of government sites that are susceptible to cross site (XSS) html injection, something that can also happen to...
Referring to other sensitive search streams like apparent murder plots, illegal activity, and so on, Sullivan asked Schmidt what Google is doing to protect users against potential accidental or governmental intrusions into personally identifiable...
Search National Archives and Records Administration Web Pages With Web Harvest - Gary Price reports on a new search engine named Web Harvest that enables you to search governmental and military Web pages.
