An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- March 28, 2024
- March 27, 2024
- March 26, 2024
- March 25, 2024
- March 24, 2024
- March 23, 2024
- March 22, 2024
Some of Our Sources
- BoingBoing
- Techcrunch
- Technology Review
- Simplebits
- TutsPlus - Code
- Team Treehouse
- Joshua Blankenship
- FanExtra - PSD
- Stylized Web
- Design Modo
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
July 25, 2012 06:12 pm GMT
A sign, if you needed one, of how big tech companies have become, how central they would like to be in the world of policymaking -- and how they may be getting nervous about heavier regulation down the line: a new lobbying group is being formed called TheInternet Association, with charter members reportedly including Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook. The group, due to launch formally in September,has made very little noise up to now, but today it announced the appointment of a president and CEO -- Washington insider Michael Beckerman -- to lead it in a more public effort.The news comes in the same week that it was revealed that Google's budget for lobbying went up by 90 percent in the last quarter to nearly $4 million (on par with large telcos like Verizon), while Facebook's went up by 200 percent to $960,000, according to Reuters.
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/clBwYrOw99s/
Stealth-Mode DC Lobby Group Internet Association (Google, Amazon, FB, eBay) Names CEO
A sign, if you needed one, of how big tech companies have become, how central they would like to be in the world of policymaking -- and how they may be getting nervous about heavier regulation down the line: a new lobbying group is being formed called TheInternet Association, with charter members reportedly including Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook. The group, due to launch formally in September,has made very little noise up to now, but today it announced the appointment of a president and CEO -- Washington insider Michael Beckerman -- to lead it in a more public effort.The news comes in the same week that it was revealed that Google's budget for lobbying went up by 90 percent in the last quarter to nearly $4 million (on par with large telcos like Verizon), while Facebook's went up by 200 percent to $960,000, according to Reuters.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/clBwYrOw99s/
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Techcrunch
TechCrunch is a leading technology blog, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.More About this Source Visit Techcrunch