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Google Pushed Hard Behind the Scenes to Convince Regulators - 4 janvier 2013
For 19 months, Google pressed its case with antitrust regulators investigating the company. Working relentlessly behind the scenes, executives made frequent flights to Washington, laying out their legal arguments and shrewdly applying lessons learned from Microsoft’s bruising antitrust battle in the 1990s.
After (...)
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Google en quête d’influence en France pour échapper au pire - 22 décembre 2012
Face aux spécificités de l’administration française, Google a mis en place une stratégie de lobbying pensée pour échapper aux efforts de régulation de ses activités et de fiscalisation de ses gains. Malgré de multiples amendes et condamnations, le groupe a jusqu’à présent échappé au pire, notamment grâce à des lobbyistes (...)
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Google Influences - 21 décembre 2012
Olivier Esper avait accepté de nous recevoir au coeur de l’été, au siège de Google, un somptueux hôtel particulier du 9e arrondissement, alors que le Tout-Paris des affaires était déjà parti en vacances. Pour faire son "job" de lobbyiste, s’assurer que la journaliste du Monde avait bien "toutes les informations" pour (...)
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Google on Track for Another Record High : Lobbying Expenses - 25 octobre 2012
Google this week disclosed it spent $4.18 million on U.S. lobbying in the third quarter of 2012, bringing the company to $13.13 million spent this year "” a record.
That makes Google the seventh-biggest lobbying spender out there, right after AT&T and the pharmaceutical industry.
Google’s previous largest year (...)
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Les dépenses de Google en lobbying continuent de grimper - 25 octobre 2012
Soucieux de défendre ses intérêts, Google mobilise beaucoup d’argent pour plaider sa cause auprès de la classe politique américaine. Cette année, le groupe devrait atteindre de nouveaux sommets en dépensant plus de 14 millions de dollars. Mais les domaines dans lesquels Google s’investit sont nombreux.
Jamais Google n’a (...)
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Tech Giants Form Internet-Freedom Lobby to Counter MPAA, RIAA Clout - 22 septembre 2012
Another lobbying group hit Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. But think again before you start screaming that it’s just another lobby representing the 1%.
The Internet Association, backed by behemoths Amazon, Google, Facebook and others "” 14 groups in all "” is focused on internet freedom "” something that’s easy in (...)
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Facebook, Google, Amazon join forces in D.C. lobby - 19 septembre 2012
Internet titans Facebook, Google, Amazon and Yahoo on Wednesday will launch a new lobbying association to counter efforts by federal regulators to strap new rules to their industry.
The Internet Association, led by Capitol Hill veteran Michael Beckerman, aims to band together Silicon Valley’s biggest Internet (...)
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2012 Presidential Race - 3 septembre 2012
Presidential candidates have already raised and spent millions of dollars in the 2012 campaign, as we know from the reports they’re required to file each month with the Federal Election Commission. Here OpenSecrets.org highlights how the White House hopefuls are stacking up in the money chase, highlighting a (...)
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Obama financé par Microsoft et Google, Romney par les banques - 3 septembre 2012
Alors que la campagne pour la présidentielle américaine fait rage, le site Internet OpenSecrets.org publie une étude comparative du budget des deux candidats. Alors que le monde de la technologie informatique semble plus que jamais derrière le candidat démocrate, les banques soutiennent majoritairement le candidat (...)
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MPAA Budget Slashed In Half, Are They Dying ? - 28 août 2012
Despite the ever increasing threat of online piracy, Hollywood is allocating less money to their flagship anti-piracy outfit. Tax records reveal that in a period of three years the major movie studios cut their payments to the MPAA in half. As a direct result the budget of the movie industry group reached a new (...)
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Les ressources financières de la MPAA dégringolent aussi - 28 août 2012
La MPAA doit également composer avec un budget en recul. Les sources de financement provenant de l’industrie du cinéma se tarissent, obligeant l’association à diminuer certaines dépenses.
Très impliquée dans la lutte contre la contrefaçon sur Internet, la Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) n’a plus les moyens de (...)
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Profit and PR are the real enemies of innovation - 10 août 2012
From drugs to computers, the big rewards are now in tweaking existing products and presenting them as ground-breaking
For more than a decade, we have been told that the pharmaceutical industry faces a crisis : it finds it more and more difficult to develop new drugs. The returns on research and development, (...)
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Des géants du Web officialisent un groupe de pression à Washington - 27 juillet 2012
Ce sera, affirme le communiqué de presse (PDF), "la voix de l’économie numérique". Un consortium regroupant certaines des plus grandes entreprises de la Net-économie, dont Facebook, Google, eBay ou Amazon, va lancer en septembre un groupe de pression baptisé "The Internet Assocation", qui siègera à Washington. (...)
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Facebook, Google, eBay and Amazon join US lobby group - 26 juillet 2012
Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay are joining forces to create a powerful pro-internet lobbying group in the US.
The Internet Association, as the group will be known, will launch in September and operate out of Washington, handling political and regulatory issues.
Both Google and Facebook currently spend large (...)
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Facebook triples lobbying budget from last year, eyes White House - 23 juillet 2012
Facebook tripled its lobbying efforts in the second quarter of the year, spending nearly $1 million to influence Congress, the Federal Trade Commission and White House on their positions regarding online privacy and child safety protection. That’s also up from $650,000 in the first quarter.
The company is still (...)
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Facebook Builds Network of Friends in Washington - 19 mai 2012
For nearly five years, Facebook has quietly and deftly befriended the nation’s top lawmakers by giving them a little tech support.
In a typical session behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, Facebook staff members have walked them through how best to use the site : what kinds of pictures to post on their profiles, (...)
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Le flicage adopte une bonne conscience - 20 décembre 2011
Le week-end dernier, l’Union européenne a ouvert la voie à l’adoption de l’Anti-conterfeinting trade agreement (Acta). De l’autre côté de l’Atlantique, les députés américains étudiaient en commission le projet de loi Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa). Deux instruments juridiques aux finalités similaires : filtrer ou bloquer les (...)
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Will the European Parliament Give Up On Protecting a Free Internet ? - 29 septembre 2011
The European Parliament’s proposed resolution on Net Neutrality is very weak and reflects the strong influence of telecom operators. Sadly, even though several tabled amendments aim for real protection of Net neutrality, leading MEPs so far fail to propose enforceable principles to prevent telcos from (...)
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In Turn to Politics, Facebook Starts a PAC - 27 septembre 2011
Facebook wants more friends. And it is willing to pay for them.
The Silicon Valley social media company has for the first time formed an old-fashioned political action committee and will use it to distribute cash to candidates in the coming elections. It is just one indication of how social media companies are (...)
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Facebook likes its own political action committee to friend Washington - 27 septembre 2011
Facebook admits it is setting up its own political action committee to win friends and influence politicians
The point of Facebook has always been to make friends. Now it wants to buy some more "“ so long as they are American politicians "“ thanks to a new political action committee (Pac) the company has (...)
