Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Are Google-DoubleClick Privacy Concerns Legitimate?
The Stock Markets Channel, July 16, 2008 With a market share of more than 50% and listings on both Nasdaq and LSE, search-engine giant, Google, is the most frequently used search engine on the web, offering clients seemingly endless options with regard to products and services. After a period of ...
Business & Economics
Voice of the Reader 7-16
To the Editor: There simply is no denying Illinois’ reputation as the Lawsuit Capital of the Midwest. In the last few months, several nationwide studies have been released and have confirmed Illinois’ status as a magnet for lawsuits. One report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ranks Illinois the fifth-worst ...
Business & Economics
The cost of crooked lawyers
Recent wave of legal malfeasance affects us all, even reform-minded Texas Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once wryly observed that “10 percent of the politicians go around giving the other 90 percent a bad name.” These days, the same could be said for the growing ranks of disgraced personal ...
Business & Economics
Housing bill provision eyes $10 billion in tax revenue from online sellers
InternetRetailer.com, July 11,2008 In a move to raise close to $10 billion over the next several years in tax revenue to support federal housing assistance efforts, an amendment to a housing bill in the U.S. Senate requires payment card processors to provide information on Internet sellers to the Internal Revenue ...
Business & Economics
Technology and the Aspiring Methuselahs
More than 200 scientists and longevity activists gathered at UCLA recently to discuss advancements in repairing humans. New technology is making it possible to imagine a world with ever greater life spans, but old world issues pervaded the discussions. The Methuselah Foundation’s Aubrey de Grey organized the event and kicked ...
Business & Economics
Big Brother Online
The bipartisan housing bill currently being debated in the Senate contains an unrelated amendment that will burden innovative Internet companies and threaten the civil liberties of every American. Without any discussion, Senators added a provision to H.R. 3221 (The American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008) requiring electronic ...
Business & Economics
Smaller Government is Only Solution to Budget Crisis
The debate over California’s fiscal crisis continues, with the governor seeking constitutional limits on spending and others calling for a flat tax or mechanisms such as “paygo.” Yet in order for any of these proposals to work, California citizens need to stop looking to the state to run their lives. ...
Business & Economics
The North Carolina Business Court Is A “Model For the Nation”
North Carolina’s Business Court is a “model for the nation,” according to Directorship Magazine’s Annual Guide to State Litigation. In addition to complimenting the Business Court, the Annual Guide gave North Carolina’s litigation climate a green light, indicating that the “state’s liability climate encourages growth and job creation.” It gave ...
Business & Economics
Turning POTS into PANS
The California Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday proposed relaxing 13-year-old price caps on basic telephone service. Yielding to the demands of public interest groups, regulators currently force telecommunications companies to offer the cheapest basic rates in the nation. Yet, if artificially low prices are necessary to protect consumer welfare, why ...
Business & Economics
Letters: The Tort War, Unresolved
To the Editor: To the Trenches: The Tort War Is Raging On (June 22, 2008) Re “To the Trenches: The Tort War Is Raging On” (June 22): One area of particular concern, especially in this election year, is torts’ impact on health care. Fears of malpractice lawsuits prompt many doctors ...
Are Google-DoubleClick Privacy Concerns Legitimate?
The Stock Markets Channel, July 16, 2008 With a market share of more than 50% and listings on both Nasdaq and LSE, search-engine giant, Google, is the most frequently used search engine on the web, offering clients seemingly endless options with regard to products and services. After a period of ...
Voice of the Reader 7-16
To the Editor: There simply is no denying Illinois’ reputation as the Lawsuit Capital of the Midwest. In the last few months, several nationwide studies have been released and have confirmed Illinois’ status as a magnet for lawsuits. One report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ranks Illinois the fifth-worst ...
The cost of crooked lawyers
Recent wave of legal malfeasance affects us all, even reform-minded Texas Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once wryly observed that “10 percent of the politicians go around giving the other 90 percent a bad name.” These days, the same could be said for the growing ranks of disgraced personal ...
Housing bill provision eyes $10 billion in tax revenue from online sellers
InternetRetailer.com, July 11,2008 In a move to raise close to $10 billion over the next several years in tax revenue to support federal housing assistance efforts, an amendment to a housing bill in the U.S. Senate requires payment card processors to provide information on Internet sellers to the Internal Revenue ...
Technology and the Aspiring Methuselahs
More than 200 scientists and longevity activists gathered at UCLA recently to discuss advancements in repairing humans. New technology is making it possible to imagine a world with ever greater life spans, but old world issues pervaded the discussions. The Methuselah Foundation’s Aubrey de Grey organized the event and kicked ...
Big Brother Online
The bipartisan housing bill currently being debated in the Senate contains an unrelated amendment that will burden innovative Internet companies and threaten the civil liberties of every American. Without any discussion, Senators added a provision to H.R. 3221 (The American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008) requiring electronic ...
Smaller Government is Only Solution to Budget Crisis
The debate over California’s fiscal crisis continues, with the governor seeking constitutional limits on spending and others calling for a flat tax or mechanisms such as “paygo.” Yet in order for any of these proposals to work, California citizens need to stop looking to the state to run their lives. ...
The North Carolina Business Court Is A “Model For the Nation”
North Carolina’s Business Court is a “model for the nation,” according to Directorship Magazine’s Annual Guide to State Litigation. In addition to complimenting the Business Court, the Annual Guide gave North Carolina’s litigation climate a green light, indicating that the “state’s liability climate encourages growth and job creation.” It gave ...
Turning POTS into PANS
The California Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday proposed relaxing 13-year-old price caps on basic telephone service. Yielding to the demands of public interest groups, regulators currently force telecommunications companies to offer the cheapest basic rates in the nation. Yet, if artificially low prices are necessary to protect consumer welfare, why ...
Letters: The Tort War, Unresolved
To the Editor: To the Trenches: The Tort War Is Raging On (June 22, 2008) Re “To the Trenches: The Tort War Is Raging On” (June 22): One area of particular concern, especially in this election year, is torts’ impact on health care. Fears of malpractice lawsuits prompt many doctors ...
