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House GOP Leadership Calls For FCC To Abandon Proposed Net Neutrality Regulation
Ahead of tomorrow's vote on the consideration of new net neutrality rules, House GOP leaders today published a letter to the FCC's Chairman Tom Wheeler, pushing back against regulating the Internet, especially in the context of reclassifying broadband access as a utility on Title II authority. Read More
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NSA Docs Detail Efforts To Collect Data From Microsoft’s Skype, SkyDrive, And Outlook.com
Last July, Glenn Greenwald published a set of claims regarding a number of Microsoft services that were, especially at the time, unsettling: That Microsoft had helped the NSA "circumvent its encryption" relating to web chat on Outlook.com, that it had worked with the FBI to bring OneDrive (then called SkyDrive) into better fit with PRISM, and that government data collection from Skype had… Read More
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ISPs Claim That If The FCC Reclassifies The Internet As A Utility, “Paid Prioritization” Wouldn’t Be Banned
In a letter signed by a swath of broadband CEOs, the ISP industry pushed back against the idea of reclassifying Internet service into a Title II utility, under which it could be more heavily regulated. Private companies pushing back against increased potential regulation is no surprise, but some of the claims that the CEOs made are worth examining. Later this week the FCC will vote on a… Read More
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NSA Allegedly Intercepts Shipments of Servers To Install Spying Backdoors
Today in a published excerpt of his forthcoming book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald reports, citing documents from 2010, that the NSA intercepts routers and servers being shipped from the United States overseas and compromises them. The document that the revelation is based on, according to Greenwald, will be released tomorrow. Read More
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FCC Said To Tweak Proposed Net Neutrality Rules, But Preserve Pay-For-Speed
Call it a non-fix: According to the Wall Street Journal, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has tweaked the language of his proposed rules to allow content providers to pay for faster delivery of their content across an ISPs network. He has not recanted that proposal. Instead, according to the Journal, “the new language by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to be circulated as early as Monday is an attempt to… Read More
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SEC Publishes Laundry List Of Bitcoin Risks, Cites Governmental Regulation As A Potential Headache
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) doesn't appear to be bitcoin's biggest fan. Today, the government agency published a long list of potential risks that bitcoin presents, and it's quite the document. After saying that bitcoin is "used like money," the SEC goes on to point out that the IRS "recently issued guidance stating that it will treat virtual currencies, such as bitcoin… Read More
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Sen. Franken Calls Net Neutrality The “Free Speech Issue Of Our Time”
In a video posted to the website NoSlowLane, Senator Al Franken made the argument for pure net neutrality, calling the principle "the free speech issue of our time." Citing YouTube in its infancy as precisely the sort of company that benefited from an open Internet that was not tiltable by incumbent powers with a financial advantage, the senator's argument is simple: the Internet works, and… Read More
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The NSA’s Code Tweet Deciphered
So, the NSA tweeted this earlier: tpfccdlfdtte pcaccplircdt dklpcfrp?qeiq lhpqlipqeodf gpwafopwprti izxndkiqpkii krirrifcapnc dxkdciqcafmd vkfpcadf. #MissionMonday #NSA #news— NSA (@NSACareers) May 05, 2014 What does it mean? Well, intrepid Business Insider readers realized quickly it was a substitution cypher, something that is pretty simple to solve. In this case, c in the cypher is t, and… Read More
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White House Report On Big Data Calls For Email Privacy Reform
The White House this week released a report on big data in which it calls for an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The act, which should in fact be called the Electronic Communications Lack Of Privacy Act, is sorely in need of reform. Read More
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: Internet Will Not Be Divided Into “Haves” And “Have-Nots”
At a meeting of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association this afternoon, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler took to the stage and again addressed net neutrality, along with municipal broadband, an issue that impacts the open Internet. Read More
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Baoku
- Size $10M
- Round A
- Investors CBC Capital
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in2nite
- Size $2.8M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors IDG Ventures
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Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors New Enterprise Associates, NBGI Ventures
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AdRoll
- Size $70M
- Round C
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Birchbox
- Size $60M
- Round B
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Airbnb
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Biosport Athletechs
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- Round Unattributed
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Placester
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American Aerogel
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Mission Control Technologies
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- Round Debt_round
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WebCurfew
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RF Surgical Systems
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Zapstitch
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- Round Seed
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Caspida
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BioPharmX
- Size $1.5M
- Round Partial
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CarNinja
- Size $2.3M
- Round Unattributed
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Encounter Collaborative
- Size $500K
- Round Debt_round
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Mirage Endoscopy Center
- Size $108K
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Nova Towers Holdings I
- Size $19.6M
- Round Partial
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PaxVax
- Size $6M
- Round Debt_round
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Tyrogenex
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
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Xcovery
- Size $2.4M
- Round Partial
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X2 Biosystems
- Size $2.5M
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Smava
- Size $5.5M
- Round B
- Investors Earlybird Venture Capital, Neuhaus Partners
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FCC Chairman Promises To Regulate The Internet As A Utility If Needed To Protect Net Neutrality
In a sternly worded blog post today, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler further explained his views on net neutrality, detailing how he plans to implement them. Most important in his comments is a promise to regulate Internet service as a utility if needed. Wheeler is plain: "The proposal before us now turns out to be insufficient or if we observe anyone taking advantage of the rule, I wonât hesitate… Read More
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Netflix Inks Peering Deal With Verizon
Netflix has signed an "interconnect agreement" with Verizon, an agreement similar in nature to the peering deal that it struck with Comcast. The deal will help Netflix get its content onto the ISPs networks. In the travails of net neutrality, this sort of peering agreement is a new frontier. Although it is acting in a diametrically opposite fashion, Netflix has written that in its estimation… Read More
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Will Talk Net Neutrality With Congress On May 20
Mark your calendars: May 20 should provide fireworks. On that date, Tom Wheeler, current chairman of the Federal Communications Commission FCC will sit down in front of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and testify. And yes, net neutrality will come up. Read More
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France Could Create A Developer Visa To Support French Startups
French Secretary of State for the digital economy Axelle Lemaire announced in an interview with Le JDD that the French government will work on a developer visa for highly skilled employees. While the French government already announced that it plans to create a so-called startup visa for entrepreneurs and investors, Lemaire wants to extend this visa to engineers. According to French governmental… Read More
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US Telco Firm [REDACTED] Gently Pushed Back Against Bulk Metadata Collection In January
In December Federal Judge Richard Leon indicated that in his estimation, the bulk collection of telephony metadata by the NSA was likely unconstitutional. He stayed his ruling, however, citing "significant national security interests" and "the novelty of the constitutional issue" at play. Read More
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Hillary Clinton Excoriates Snowden’s Leaks, Mocks His Softball Putin Question
Former Secretary of State, Senator, and First Lady Hillary Clinton isn't big on Edward Snowden. Clinton excoriated Snowden recently, hitting him for leaving the country, not availing himself of whistleblower protections here at home, and for asking Russian President a now widely mocked softball question. Read More
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Yes, AT&T’s Threat To Boycott Next Year’s Spectrum Auction Was Bullshit
AT&T: The rules proposed for the 2015 spectrum auction are crap, and we may not take part! FCC: Yeah, sure, right, whatever, no. AT&T: Fine, haha, we were just kidding. Or, to be more precise: Our desire to participate in this auction and our hope for a successful auction is  unchanged. We believe that all stakeholders will be able to work together to achieve a successful  incentive… Read More
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FCC Tells Internet To Chill, Denies That It Will Kill Net Neutrality
Earlier today reports struck that the FCC was considering new net neutrality rules that would allow content purveyors to pay ISPs for preferential access to their networks. This would have made it possible for content companies to speed the delivery of their material across the Internet. Read More
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The FCC’s New Net Neutrality Rules Will Brutalize The Internet
The FCC will propose new net neutrality rules that at once protect content from discrimination, but also allow content companies to pay for preferential treatment. The news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, would in fact create a two-tiered system in which wealthy companies can "better serve the market" at the expense of younger, less well-capitalized firms. Read More
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Google, AT&T, Verizon And Comcast Each Spent More Than $3M In Q1 Lobbying Congress
The dollars flowing into the Capitol from tech companies are showing little signs of abatement: Google spent $3.8 million on lobbying in the first quarter, AT&T $3.7 million, Verizon $3.5 million, Comcast $3.1 million, Facebook $2.8 million, Microsoft $2.1 million, Time Warner Cable $1.9 million, Oracle $1.5 million, Apple $1.1 million, and Amazon $830,000. Read More
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