By now, the Occupy Wall Street movement has become well known and widespread throughout in the United States. Claiming, “We Are the 99%,” this resistance movement seeks to “empower real people to create real change” in order to build a better society free of the “greed and corruption of the 1%.” They have also expanded outside of New York to cities throughout the country.
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Applegate? The high(er) price of convenience.
Apple (AAPL) stock keeps on chugging, and is now the largest company in the world by market capitalization. Apple leads by creating sleek phones, music players, tablets, and computers. All with an easy to use interface and online store. Within a few clicks, movies, music, and ebooks will be copied to Apple devices for easy consumption. But something devious could be happening under the hood of this simple process: price fixing. T
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Stubhub Immune Under Section 230
On March 6, 2012, a North Carolina appellate court three-judge panel unanimously decided that Stubhub Inc. was entitled to Section 230 immunity under the Communications Decency Act. This decision overruled the judgment of a Guilford County judge made last year that found Stubhub had violated North Carolina’s Read more ...
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Social Media-Savvy Candidates or Patent Infringers?
The internet has become an increasingly relevant mechanism by which many people view and interact with the world. Perhaps the best example of this is seen in the dramatic effects social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have had on newsworthy events. These sites have played notable, even essential roles in events as diverse as the Arab Spring uprisings to the protests against the Read more ...
The Bill Is Weak But the Need Is Great
Perhaps even President Obama has found that the advertisements on the right side of his Facebook page are excessively applicable to his life. On February 23rd, the White House announced a new bill that aims to protect Internet users’ privacy, and has come to be known as the “Online Privacy Bill of Rights.” The bill includes guidelines for how Internet companies are to manage customers’ information, but is already being criticized for a lack of substance and vagueness.
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FCC Revokes LightSquared Permit: Major GPS Interference Likely
Competition is essential in the wireless communications industry. With few players on what are now traditional land based networks, an innovative new high speed system that could provide wireless internet to millions of new users (even
Facebook Files S-1 Registration Statement
On February 1, 2012 Facebook took its first major step towards becoming a public company when it filed its S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This registration statement gives the public a first time peak into the details of Facebook’s business operations, financials, and management. In addition to these details it also gives the public a look at the culture and goals of the company.
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Class Action Against Full Tilt Poker Goes Forward (At Least In Part)
It has not been a good year for online gaming. In April of last year, the Justice Department shuttered the doors of the largest online gaming sites with operations in the United States. This has sent shockwaves through the poker playing community. One of the prime targets for the Justice Department is Full Tilt Poker.
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Fight Against SOPA and PIPA Continues
The freedom to surf the Internet as one pleases continues to be a controversial issue both domestically and abroad. On January 18, 2013, websites, such as Wikipedia and Reddit, went “black,” and numerous others ha
Netflix Advocating for Change in Antiquated Law to Connect U.S. Users to Facebook
The idea of linking a company’s product to Facebook, particularly a product related to technology, in order to positively affect that company’s bottom line is not newsworthy. In fact, what is more newsworthy is a company with a technology-based product not creating some sort of platform to connect its customers through Facebook. This is particularly true when that company is the consistently inconsistent Netflix.
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