Senate grilled HP and Microsoft on allegations of tax avoidance. Google shifted $9.8 billion in revenue to Bermuda in order to avoid paying $2 billion in global taxes, Bloomberg reported. The search giant reportedly used common revenue funnelling...
Search for your specific state result like this: [Nebraska Senate Race 2012] Not because as a Californian, my vote for President will count 1/3 as much as an Alaskan (actually it won't matter at all -- I'm not in a swing state).Not because my vote...
We also compiled and submitted thoughtful and informative communications to the Senate and the House of Representatives concerning the proposed SOPA/PIPA legislation, and we mobilized others to do the same.
By September 2011, Yelp was testifying against Googlein the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. Google acquired Frommer’s brand of travel guides from Wiley s standards, it is another big indicator Google plans...
This is the same Nextag that claimed “about 30 million shoppers a month use our site and we send over $1 billion of sales to our merchant partners" at the Google Senate hearing last year. Our data, which we shared with the Senate Judiciary...
After the Senate Subcommittee investigation into Google last summer, we saw another questionable move on the part of investigators, this time by Senator Al Franken, who put out a YouTube video promoting a Google small business program even as he...
YouTube is also poised to have a greater impact on crucial senate races. Kate Kaye, a Senior Editor at ClickZ News, says, “Online video – from in-banner and streaming video advertising to short films on YouTube – is poised to have a greater impact...
Senate to answer questions relating to the firm's market dominance. Google's position as the default search engine on Apple's mobile devices is drawing scrutiny from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Other Factors to Examine While SOPA The Senate had an opportunity to have a national conversation about an important and urgent issue: protecting American workers and consumers from foreign criminals.
Fight for the Future reported “at least 350,000 people have sent emails to representatives in the House and Senate”. In September, Senators questioned whether Google had too much power. Lawmakers got a taste of just how much power Google can wield...
Congress and Senate to demand an explanation from the companies who created the piracy problem as to why the solution should now be legislated on their terms, for their protection. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Rep.
Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business.
As a Canadian, my knowledge of how the U.S.system works is limited and I hadn’t realized the Senate investigation was just a preliminary. DuckDuckGo Founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg: "Given the Senate hearing last year, it’s actually kind of...
Senate and House of Representatives. Mike Essex hopes to spur SEOs into action with recommendations for protesting eight issues outlined in his video What Every SEO Has to Fight For in 2012. Koozai’s Online Marketing Manager has put together a wish...
Senate seat in Nebraska. These links scattered across the site are absolutely affecting the quality score of her site, and will make it harder for her to rank for any of her targeted terms (although there are other issues with her site, beyond the...
Senator for Connecticut, party-independent politician, and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee – wrote a letter addressed to Google CEO Larry Page. Joe Lieberman has contacted Google to demand a content pull-down from Blogger...
Joe Barton of Texas, have sent Facebook and other digital media firms numerous inquiries about privacy and data security practices, and co-sponsored the Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011, which sits in legislative limbo along with a host of other...
As Ars Technica noted "in the Senate, people like Ron Wyden (D-OR) watched the 'not entirely fair and balanced' hearing with horror. You'd think Google wouldn't want to antagonize another branch of the federal government.
Yelp recently testified at the Senate hearings investigating Google's possible threat to competition. Google has added highlighting for businesses in Google Maps that ties recommendations made by users through their Google account to others the...
Schmidt's appearance before the first US senate hearing on Google's search practices led to his denying accusations that the firm "cooked" search results to favor its own products. As usual, Schmidt’s comments have been making headlines this week.
