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Biden, on Europe trip, gets pressured for privacy law at home — Getting ahead of the quantum threat

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Or maybe not.  On April 30th, Ambassador Katherine Tai, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), issued the 2021 Special 301 Report.  In a press release, the USTR stated that "[i]ntellectual property rights incentivize our creators, manufacturers, and innovators to invent new products and technologies."  The press release notes that the review period underlying the Report took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, "the largest global health...

House Ag Republicans side with USDA over FCC in broadband turf war — Tech groups track online sales provisions

see my "final pretrial Twitter thread"). Im not like those New Years resolutioners starting to smoke again a week later. This post is not about the trial itself or the antitrust matters involved, but about suspicious social media activity of the astroturfing kind. Its publicly discoverable that Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney and I follow each other on Twitter, and sometimes retweet or like each others tweets. Other than that, I dont know him and Im 100% independent from Epic. I have my ...

Washington’s tech industry hasn’t been immune to the pandemic. Companies such as the IT giant DXC and the event-organizing platform Cvent cut jobs amid the slowdown. But some, including the hot cloud-computing company Appian, committed to hundreds of new hires. Indeed, plenty of other good business news came from Washingtonian’s Tech Titans during the past year. Our 2021 winners—who were selected through both reporting and an informal process of nominations from their peers—managed to...

Telecompaper IT ITIDA signs cooperation deals with NGOs to boost partnership and IT sector Thursday 29 April 2021 | 14:44 CET | News Egypts Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) has signed three-year cooperation protocols with three civil society organisations (CSOs) specialising in ICT. ITIDA will provide administrative, technical and financial support, at an estimated budget of EGP 50 million, to three NGOs including the Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommu...

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26 April 2021 17:36 GMT Pangiam, a security and travel services provider, announced today Ha McNeill as the new Chief Executive Officer of Pangiam Strategic Consulting. Ha brings nearly two decades of experience to Pangiam as an executive with a track record of integration, strategic planning, and mission driven success. In addition, Ha is a subject matter expert in the fields of homeland security, commercial aviation and technology and software. Ha comes to Pangiam from BSA | The Softwar...

Apr 22, 2021 The U.S. Congress is moving with increasing urgency on bipartisan legislation to confront China and bolster competitiveness in technology and critical manufacturing with the Senate poised to act within weeks on a package of bills. As part of the package, Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, plans to push for incentives to strengthen domestic semiconductor manufacturing through his CHIPS for America legislation, according to a person familiar with the matter. The bill b...

Big Tech is pushing states to pass privacy laws, and yes, you should be suspicious Concerned about growing momentum behind efforts to regulate the commercial use of personal data, Big Tech has begun seeding watered-down “privacy” legislation in states with the goal of preempting greater protections, experts say. The swift passage in March of a consumer data privacy law in Virginia, which Protocol reported was originally authored by Amazon with input from Microsoft, is emblematic of an...