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[News] [Right] Viacom Out to Destroy Progress, IBM Screws Up Politics

  • Subject: [News] [Right] Viacom Out to Destroy Progress, IBM Screws Up Politics
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:59:15 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Viacom out of touch with Web 2.0

,----[ Quote ]
| Listening to the anti-Google and YouTube rhetoric spewing out of the mouth of 
| Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman one has to wonder why he bothered to show up to 
| the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week.  
`----

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14944/1023/

IBM Spent Nearly $3.9 Million Lobbying

,----[ Quote ]
| International Business Machines Corp. spent nearly $3.9 million in the first 
| six months of 2007 to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure 
| form.  
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071018/ibm_lobbying.html?.v=1

It's pleasant to see how the 'honest' government serves its people and how much
companies 'welcome' openness.


Related:

IBM Paid Lobbyist $100,000

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070830/ibm_lobbying.html?.v=1


Tech Companies Paid Lobbyist $200,000

,----[ Quote ]
| Over 60 companies and trade associations, including Microsoft Corp. and Apple 
| Inc., have formed the Coalition for Patent Fairness, which paid Patton Boggs 
| to lobby Congress in support of patent reform legislation, according to the 
| form posted online Aug. 9 by the Senate's public records office.   
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070830/tech_companies_lobbying.html?.v=1


Electronics Group Spent $1M on Lobbying

,----[ Quote ]
| The American Electronics Association's board of directors includes executives 
| from Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Varian Medical Systems Inc. 
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070830/american_electronics_lobbying.html?.v=1


Intel Hires Lobbying Firm

,----[ Quote ]
| Computer chip maker Intel Corp. has hired FBA Inc. to lobby the federal 
| government, according to a federal disclosure form. 
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070821/intel_lobbying.html?.v=1


Microsoft trying to derail Google/DoubleClick deal by lobbying congress

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on "competitive 
| issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger." 
`----

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-microsoft-spends-40000-to-lobby-congress-about-googledoubleclick-merger.html


Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation

,----[  Quote
| It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped into
| a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within
| 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits, were
| pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations
| (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill 1974. 
`----

http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244&from=rss


Politicians in Microsoft's Pocket

,----[ Quote ]
| Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from 
| who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT.
`----

http://www.fonz.net/blog/archives/2007/06/04/politicians-in-microsofts-pocket/


Microsoft sets spinners on court verdict

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft may have lost in court, but it quickly tried to win the war of 
| media reaction via organisations like CompTIA, the Computing Technology 
| Industry Association and ACT (the Association for Competitive Technology) 
| which both intervened in court on its side.   
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/reaction_microsoft_verdict/


Electronics Spent $300,000 Lobbying

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070917/electronic_industries_lobbying.html?.v=1


Computer Group Spent $130,000 Lobbying

,----[ Quote ]
| The trade group, whose 25 members include Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and 
| Yahoo Inc., lobbied Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, Federal 
| Trade Commission, the White House, Commerce Department and other agencies.  
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071004/computer_industry_lobbying.html?.v=1



Marketing Group Spent $350,000 Lobbying

,----[ Quote ]
| The Direct Marketing Association spent $350,000 in the first half of 2007 to 
| lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure form. 
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070821/marketing_industry_lobbying.html?.v=1


Business Group Spent $140,000 Lobbying

,----[ Quote ]
| The group's members include Intel Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Bristol-Myers 
| Squibb Co. 
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070821/intel_lobbying.html?.v=1


Intel Hires Lobbying Firm

,----[ Quote ]
| Computer chip maker Intel Corp. has hired FBA Inc. to lobby the federal 
| government, according to a federal disclosure form. 
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070821/intel_lobbying.html?.v=1


Marketing Group Spent $350,000 Lobbying

,----[ Quote ]
| The Direct Marketing Association spent $350,000 in the first half of 2007 to 
| lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure form. 
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070821/marketing_industry_lobbying.html?.v=1

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