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Radio broadcasters face challenge from tech heavyweights
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Radio remains the world’s most popular form of media in terms of audience, with listener figures at their highest levels in decades. But broadcasters face some of their fiercest competition for years as the world’s biggest technology companies – including Apple and Google – take aim at their business.
House committee to debate future of FTC
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The four current members of the Federal Trade Commission will testify at a hearing being held by the House Commerce subcommittee on Trade. The hearing -- entitled “The FTC at 100: Where Do We Go from Here?” -- will examine the competition and consumer protection agency’s mission, budget and authority as it enters its second century.
Our tweets are getting shorter
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Tweets have been getting shorter and shorter.
US Adults Fare Poorly in a Study of Skills
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American adults lag well behind their counterparts in most other developed countries in the mathematical and technical skills needed for a modern workplace.
California driving Internet privacy policy
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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.