With the federal government and technology policy shut down in Washington, California is steaming ahead with a series of online privacy laws that will have broad implications for Internet companies and consumers.
IT Spending to Reach $3.8 Trillion Next Year, as Billions of Things Get Connected
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When you start adding up all the IT budgets of every company and government agency, you start talking about, as they say, real money. Here’s the figure: $3.8 trillion. That’s the new figure that research firm Gartner said global IT spending will reach in 2014.
Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise.
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For more than a decade, the recording industry has been complaining that online copyright infringement is devastating the music industry. And it's true that the revenues of conventional record labels have plunged in recent years. But if you look at the bigger picture, things don't look so grim.
DOJ Request Pushes Sinclair-Allbritton Close Date Into ‘14
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Sinclair is now scheduled to close on its $985 million acquisition of Allbritton in 2014, the time frame pushed back following a "Second Request for information" from the Department of Justice, according to Sinclair and Allbritton.
Justice Scalia uses the Internet. And he thinks you people on it are narcissists.
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In a lengthy interview with New York Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he uses the Internet -- but doesn't seem particularly thrilled by what he sees.
Black Americans find their voice on Twitter forums
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Like most early Twitter users, many young black Americans initially took to microblogging to follow celebrities or send short, quick messages to friends on their phones, but the site has since grown to become an important forum to discuss broad issues around race in America.
FTC Puts Conditions on Nielsen’s Proposed $1.6 Billion Acquisition of Arbitron
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Media research company Nielsen has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its proposed acquisition of Arbitron may substantially lessen competition.
Stations Need to Work Harder for Political
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With an increasing number of viable alternatives, local broadcasters need to get more aggressive in wooing political advertisers to continue getting their portion of the total spend.
US phone companies never once challenged NSA data requests
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None of the phone companies that handed over communications metadata in bulk to the National Security Agency ever challenged the agency on its data requests.