The report judged firms based on a number of practices, including publishing regular transparency reports, notifying users of government data requests and lobbying lawmakers for improved user privacy protections.
Lobbying Statements by our lobby group needed to be confirmed by multiple experts and opposite statements needed to be surrounded by doubt and contradiction. A professional approach doesn't just consist of cleansing the search results once a...
This organization claims to be based on two principles of transparency and innovation, while lobbying policymakers to act now in protecting these principles from the "growing evidence that Google is abusing its search monopoly to thwart competition.
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 search giant spent its funds lobbying the U.S.government on patent, antitrust, and...
Technology giants – and often competitors – Google, Facebook, Amazon, and eBay are expected to join forces to form a lobbying group known as the Internet Association (IA), Reuters reported. The group will be the first lobbying association to...
Dodd’s statement on accepting his new position as head of the movie industry’s influential lobbying arm last March makes clear just why the MPAA headhunted a Washington power player and what his marching orders were from the beginning:
Facebook Ramps Up Lobbying Spend In Q1 2011, Up 400 Percent To A Record $230K - TechCrunch Facebook Advertising 101 Part 2: Campaign Setup - Rimm-Kaufman Group Privacy groups urge public to push for industry adoption of Google Buzz settlement terms...
Government officials lobbying for U.S.corporations Pro Wikileaks Group Knocks Mastercard Offline, More To Come But, most of it is confusing, so I thought a game card would be handy. So who are the players in this interesting global intrigue?
It spent $4.03 million on lobbying in 2009, according to disclosure forms filed with the Senate Office of Public Affairs," the public interest group said. As Consumer Watchdog points out, Google's lobbying spending rose 57% to $1.3 million in the...
Google opened up a Washington, DC office a few years back to handle the minimal lobbying it was doing. Google Learns to Navigate Washington the Hard Way Posted by Nathania Johnson Oct 20, 2008 Google is finally starting to learn that the...
In new lobbying effort, Google is asking the FCC to auction the unused airwaves to establish faster internet access that has a wider reach. There's no way for a content-matching algorithm to judge the relevancy of an ad group to a landing page...
Learning From Microsoft's Error, Google Builds a Lobbying Engine, Washington Post Dex Gets a Web 2.0 Injection, The Kelsey Group Flash and SEO Search Engine Watch Forums "What are the current SEO best practices for implementing Flash on a Web site?
Learning From Microsoft's Error, Google Builds a Lobbying Engine, Washington Post Google Getting Serious About Lobbying U.S. GovernmentGoogle has stepped up its lobbying efforts in the last two years, moving from a single lobbyist in Washington to...
They're also lobbying press release distribution services to add del.icio.us bookmarks, Technorati tags, and Digg buttons to every news release.They call their innovation "PR 2.0," "PR Squared," and "the social media press release.Reactions to...
Google has some small footprints in Washington already, hiring a lobbying firm in the past to help push public policy in the direction Google wants it to go. Lots, ranging from a new advertiser pressure group, to an industry estimate that click...
Coinciding with the complaint, the Wall Street Journal has a debate between the EFF and an internet lobbying group NetCoalition that apparently represents Me: Wow, I think the search engines need a new lobbying group that understands search better.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a trade group whose members include Ford, GM, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota and VW, is heading online to find lawmakers and policy influencers this legislative session.
Google, Once a Maverick, Joins Lobbying Herd. Given that they have a deeper focus in direct ecommerce plays in key fields than most of their competitors, and less focus in other areas, "The Ecommerce Portal" might be the best unofficial description...
Google Hires Lobbying Firm David Cole, who will be leaving MSN in April, will temporarily run the Online Business Group at MSN. MSN Names Yusuf Mehdi New Chief Advertising Strategist - ClickZ reports MSN has named Yusuf Mehdi as the chief...
Back in October we pointed out that Google was opening a lobbying office in D.C. Today, Matt Marshall in Silicon Beat points to an article in the Wall Street Journal (subscribers only) about Google and other tech company lobbying efforts in D.C.
