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Privacy Will Burst Bubble 2.0
Expect privacy concerns to be the eventual catalyst that ultimately bursts the Internet investment Bubble 2.0. It is rare when there is a profound disconnect and suspension of reality between industry behavior/investment expectations and customer wants, needs and expectations, but that is precisely what is...
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Google’s Liability Decade: Why Google’s leadership ducks investors
The abrupt change, that Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt will no longer be accountable to shareholders on Google’s earnings calls, should prompt investors to ask why? Google claimed that they wanted to put more focus on Google’s strong financials, but they did not disclose any more...
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Impact of court vacating Comcast net neutrality order — NetCompetition.org’s press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2010 Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407 NetCompetition Comments on Impact of D.C. Circuit Vacating FCC Comcast Order “If the FCC believes it needs Internet authority it should seek it from Congress, not just assert it.”...
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Must-read Swanson Op-ed: The White House-FCC Jobs Clash
Don’t miss Digital Society’s Bret Swanson’s outstanding op-ed in the Huffington Post that spotlights the huge disconnect between the White House’s top priority of creating jobs, and the FCC’s Open Internet regulation plans that are obviously big net job killers. Common sense dictates that heavily...
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Must read Broadband industry letter to FCC: Title II reclassification would do incalcuable harm
In one of the best, most strongly-worded and serious letters to the FCC that I have read in my 18 years following FCC issues closely, the united broadband industry’s letter to FCC Chairman Genachowski is simply a must-read; it explains why the FCC’s serious interest in reclassifying unregulated broadband information...
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FCC Chairman’s “broadband engine” speech raises big questions
FCC Chairman Genachowski’s speech to NARUC: “Broadband: Our Enduring Engine for Prosperity and Opportunity” raises some big open questions. The biggest open question is whether Chairman Genachowski believes the titular “broadband engine” of his speech should remain a private sector “engine” that is private property...
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Systemic Uneconomics: Financial Crisis Root Causes: Part III
To discern the real “root” causes of the financial crisis of 2008, one must probe beneath the surface and examine the health of the “root system” of our capital markets “forest.” The roots of the capital markets forest are sound economics; the natural market function...
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More un-economics nonsense from FreePress: Regulation does not discourage private investment
Does anyone else see the irony of a staunchly anti-business and anti-property activist organization like FreePress — which openly advocates for an information commons and a broadband public utility model — attempting to be credible doing private investment analysis for the FCC? Mr. Derek Turner...
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“Systemic Risk Laundering” — Financial Crisis Root Causes — Part II
How could American taxpayers get stuck with a multi-trillion dollar tab that they weren’t even aware that they were running up? How could that huge tab still be allowed to run up unchecked today? For the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the sad...
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