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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 crisis in more than a century."  Consistent with recent decisions (including support for the propo...

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

see my "final pretrial Twitter thread"). I'm not like those New Year's 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. It's publicly discoverable that Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney and I follow each other on Twitter, and sometimes retweet or like each other's tweets. Other than that, I don't know him and I'm 100% independent from Epic. I have my own app store issues. In recent weeks there's been quite some suspicious activity on Twitter. ...

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 start up new and innovative companies, close on huge funding rounds, ink massive contracts, and ann...