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Watch Live: Robert Scoble Interviewing CEA's Gary Shapiro
May 13, 2009 | Robert Scoble is on stage at Tech Policy Summit '09 right now, interviewing Gary Shapiro of the Consumer Electronics Association. Read More
White House Intros Commerce Secretary Nominee
Mar 5, 2009 | The White House released a video today to introduce the American public to President Obama's third (and, hopefully, final) pick Read More
Obama's Team: Who's In? Who's Likely?
Feb 24, 2009 | While several key tech policy-related positions are still in flux as we await nominations and confirmations, the Obama administration has Read More
Reid's Picks for Senate Committee Chairs
Dec 16, 2008 | According to The Hill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has announced whom he's recommended to chair the various U.S. Read More
Announcing the Tech Policy Predictive Market
Dec 10, 2008 | As we first mentioned on Twitter, we have been working on a new project in partnership with the Information Read More
CEA's Shapiro: Failure on Colombia Deal Would Be "Death of Free Trade"
Nov 25, 2008 | News.com ran an interview yesterday with Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), asking him about Read More
Treasury Secretary Named; Commerce, Others On Deck
Nov 24, 2008 | At a news conference in Chicago this morning, President-elect Barack Obama confirmed his decision to name Timothy Geithner as the Read More
Competitiveness and the 'Venturesome Economy'
Nov 24, 2008 | Ask 10 different people why the United States -- or, specifically, Silicon Valley -- is a good place to innovate, and Read More
Call for Nominations: People to Watch
Nov 18, 2008 | We are excited to officially announce the launch of the first 2009 Tech Policy Who's Who: People to Watch Read More
Obama Transition Team Includes Familiar Tech Policy Names
Nov 14, 2008 | Several tech policy experts have been added to the list of individuals helping the Obama-Biden transition team in its review Read More
Calling for Cooperation Over Competitiveness
Nov 13, 2008 | Earlier this afternoon, Forrester Research vice president Navi Radjou tipped us off to a post he published in the Harvard Read More
Event Recap: What Does the Election Mean for Tech?
Nov 7, 2008 | Not surprisingly, there has been a lot of speculation in the last few days about what the election results might Read More
President-elect Obama's Tech Blueprint
Nov 5, 2008 | Now that it's clear which Presidential transition team will be springing into action, we'll be watching closely to see whom Read More
A Last Look at the Final Debate
Oct 16, 2008 | Whenever the presidential candidates or their running mates mention technology or science in a debate or at a campaign rally, Read More
President's State of the Union: Tech Highlights
Jan 29, 2008 | As a follow-up to our earlier post about the President Bush's State of the Union address, here is a summary Read More
CEA: Gadgets are Great, but Trade Matters Too
Jan 8, 2008 | Amidst the lure of shiny new gadgets - and the many distractions that make Vegas what it is - the Read More
Linking China's Net Censorship with Trade
Dec 12, 2007 | Earlier this year, we wrote about Google's efforts to convince the federal government that Internet censorship in countries like China Read More
Guest Commentary: Mary Arnold, SAP
Dec 12, 2007 | The following editorial was written by Mary Arnold, Vice President for Government Relations at SAP America, and a member of Read More
Annual Report to Congress Cites Concerns with China
Nov 15, 2007 | The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, established in 2000 to advise Congress on its policy toward China, released its Read More
John McCain's Take on Tech
Nov 12, 2007 | Techcrunch blogger Michael Arrington is interviewing presidential candidates to get their views on tech-related issues. We wrote about his first Read More
House Approves Peru Trade Bill
Nov 8, 2007 | Earlier today, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a free trade agreement with Peru, one of four pending trade pacts that President Read More
President Bush on Free Trade and TAA
Nov 6, 2007 | At a White House Forum on International Trade and Investment earlier today, President Bush made his case for free trade Read More
Mitt Romney's Take on Tech
Nov 1, 2007 | We've written before about the growing role of social media in the 2008 elections -- whether it's YouTube debates, MySpace Read More
SanDisk Says 25 Companies Violated Patents; Seeks Ban on Imports
Oct 25, 2007 | Flash memory maker SanDisk issued a news release yesterday stating that is had filed three patent infringements suits against 25 Read More
New Anti-Piracy Agreement; May Help Fight Fake Chips
Oct 25, 2007 | Earlier this week, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab announced that the United States and a number of key trading partners Read More
Treasury Secretary Talks China
Oct 23, 2007 | Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson delivered a keynote this morning about America's economic ties with China at a D.C. conference on Read More
TechNet Leaders Gather at Summit in Berkeley
Oct 12, 2007 | Industry group TechNet held its annual Innovation Summit on the UC Berkeley campus yesterday. As in previous years, PBS Read More
ITC Launches Disk Drive Investigation
Oct 11, 2007 | According to Computerworld, the U.S. International Trade Commission is investigating allegations that five leading computer manufacturers have violated patents Read More
Republicans Debate Economic Issues
Oct 10, 2007 | CNBC, MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal hosted a Republican presidential debate yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan that focused on Read More
Google: Net Censorship is a Trade Barrier
Jun 22, 2007 | Google has been making policy-related headlines on everything from privacy and copyright to antitrust issues and even green tech. This Read More
Are Trade Agreements Exporting IP?
May 8, 2007 | In his latest "The Financial Page" column, The New Yorker's James Surowiecki doesn't pull any punches in describing what he Read More
U.S. Report Critical of China
Dec 12, 2006 | As a follow-up to our post yesterday about the fifth anniversary of China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Read More
