MTP readers will recall that Google sued Mississippi’s populist Attorney General Jim Hood to stop Hood’s investigation into Google’s drug habits. More on this to come, but the short history of the case is that Hood served a request for documents on Google consisting of a series of questions about Google’s business practices in furtherance […]
You can’t make this stuff up. It reads like a subplot of a John Grisham novel with that vague warning that it could swing back across the stage as a plot twist in the third act to smash into the ending with a vengeance, carrying streaming guidons reading “Here am I, the one true ending, send […]
Uncle Sugar Shows Us a Regular Guy on a Lobbying Trip As we enter the a new session of Congress, we can anticipate being assaulted by the combined forces of Google, Facebook, Pandora and SiriusXM, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the Digital Media Association, the Computer & Communications Industry Association and its host of […]
Americans are freedom loving people, and nothing says freedom like getting away with it. From A Long Long Time by Guy Forsyth The thing about public relations is that it works. When famous personalities or executives have very carefully cultivated public images, large numbers of people come to be emotionally invested in them, a kind […]
An eye popping Associated Press interview with the Man Who Got Google, David Whitaker. This is a must read, as is his further accounts on his website. Here’s a couple examples from the AP article: Whitaker credits AdWords with helping the business take off. He recalls talking with a Google representative in Buenos Aires, Argentina, […]
[Editor Charles sez: This post first ran on December 17 before the FTC let Google off the hook. and we though it was worth another read.] When a chicken is placed on an electrical grid inside a cage and shocked repeatedly, it begins to get the idea that no matter where it stands, no matter […]
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