Tech industry sees mixed bag in Obama’s immigration plan
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Tom Wheeler expects broadband providers to challenge any new regulations concerning the open Internet.
Thanks from Silicon Valley
President Obama has addressed the immigration concerns of the tech community.
Civil rights groups are split when it comes to net neutrality
A peculiar split forms between civil rights groups over net neutrality.
Adhesive allows humans to scale walls like geckos
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is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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The heartbeat vs. the fingerprint
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Comcast is testing a way to tell you exactly when the cable guy is coming
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Its candidates lost, but Mayday PAC is already planning its next moves.
Obama likely to expand immigration program tech industry craves
President Obama is likely to announce Thursday night that he’s expanding a program that acts as a pipeline for foreign students into the U.S. workforce -- a program that has been controversial on both sides of the political aisle.
Best tech gifts this season
Here are some of the top tech gifts for this holiday season, and a few that you can skip buying.
Firefox is changing its default search engine to Yahoo --- which is powered by Bing
Microsoft gets a 12 percent cut of Yahoo Search advertising revenues.
Does Uber want to redeem itself?
It doesn’t have to be hated. CEO Travis Kalanick can still save his company.
The Switchboard: Al Franken wants Uber to explain itself
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Report: U.S., Israeli companies supply spy gear to repressive regimes
The surveillance technology is sold to Central Asian nations that smother basic rights, a watchdog group says.
Uber’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Uber’s PR disasters made it onto the front pages of The Washington Post, USA Today and the New York Times.
Estimote rolls out new beacon software
The start-up upgrades its offering as it moves to be the dominant beacon platform.
‘People love spying on one another’: A Q&A with Facebook critic Eben Moglen
The Columbia law professor and director of the Software Freedom Law Center illuminates the path toward a life without the social network.
Uber investor Ashton Kutcher doesn’t see the problem with digging up dirt on a ‘shady journalist’
The latest on Uber’s terrible PR week.
Silicon Valley’s champion just lost a key race in the House
Rep. Anna Eshoo, who represents the district that includes Facebook and Google, won’t be leading Dems on the House Energy & Commerce Committee.
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