Tomorrow, the FCC will vote on rules, proposed by Chairman Kevin Martin, governing the auction of the 700 MHz band of wireless spectrum. Trying its best to persuade the commission to endorse neutrality in the airwaves, similar to what many want to happen with the Internet, Google succeeded in getting at least two of its four wishes granted.
We all know Google: the fun, friendly search engine company that loves its employees and puppy dogs. The same company that has an army of lawyers at its corporate back, and, as it turns out, rapidly expanding offices in Washington, D.C.
The growing scrutiny of the company's stated aim to organize all the world's information, and its more prosaic acquisition of DoubleClick, means Google has to pay more attention to Washington's K Street lobbying practices.
Lobbyists, on the whole, have a pretty bad reputation. They’re regarded as a rather shady group of people; one of the main headings in a Wikipedia article is “corruption concerns.” Draw your own conclusions, then, about this bit of news: Google wants to hire lobbyists throughout Europe.
The search engine company has established a presence in the nation's capital to better express itself to Congress.
Google, Goldman Sachs and Hearst have put $100 million in a startup that will provide broadband over power lines.
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