The San Francisco Examiner filed a lawsuit alleging that the city's dominant daily newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, has slashed advertising prices to stifle competition.
Video Marketplace: Competition Is Evolving, and Government Reporting Should Be Reevaluated
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Technological advances have ushered in a wave of new products and services, bringing online distribution of video to consumers. Federal laws and regulations have sought to foster competition in the video programming and distribution marketplace, but many such laws were adopted prior to the emergence of these advances.
Election 2016: How Big Data + Social Data Will Determine the Next President
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As our nation ramps up for 2016, the role of big data + social data in influencing election decisions cannot be ignored.
Statement From FCC Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn to Staff
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We have an important mission, and this is an important time. I assume the role of Acting Chair, with a great sense of responsibility, but also great humility. And as we await the confirmation of Tom Wheeler, I see myself as a member of a relay team, running one of the middle legs. My job is to build on forward momentum, give the next teammate a running start, an improved position, and no matter what, my goal is not to drop the baton.
Cisco: Big Data Is The Network, Too
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John Chambers says the profits from Cisco Systems’ new strategy are still one to three years away. The strategy, however, is already becoming more clear: Big Data will only work if it’s delivered through the network, and that could go hand-in-hand with consolidation among companies that specialize in data analysis and networking or traditional computing.
Intel Fuels a Rebellion Around Your Data
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Intel is a $53-billion-a-year company that enjoys a near monopoly on the computer chips that go into PCs. But when it comes to the data underlying big companies like Facebook and Google, it says it wants to “return power to the people.”
Concerns Arise on U.S. Effort to Allow Internet ‘Wiretaps’
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Surveillance can be a tricky affair in the Internet age.
CBO Scores Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act
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The Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 (S. 607) would amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-508) to make several changes to the current laws relating to the privacy of personal electronic communications.
AT&T CEO: Data Caps Are About Charging Content Providers
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The quest to determine why data caps really exist may be starting to wind down. Internet service providers (ISPs) have admitted, either explicitly or implicitly, that monthly data caps have nothing to do with network congestion. And, while some have started to portray data caps as legitimate forms of price discrimination, that argument did not hold up to close scrutiny either. So what's left?
Introducing: Project Open Data
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Technology evolves rapidly, and it can be challenging for policy and its implementation to evolve at the same pace. Last week, President Obama launched the Administration’s new Open Data Policy and Executive Order aimed at ensuring that data released by the government will be as accessible and useful as possible. To make sure this tech-focused policy can keep up with the speed of innovation, we created Project Open Data. Project Open Data is an online, public repository intended to foster collaboration and promote the continual improvement of the Open Data Policy.