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When Google meets with Congressional staffers, hoping to convince US lawmakers that it's nothing but good for the world, the web giant…
May 13, 2009After Google unveiled new features to its search results yesterday, one analyst is saying that the company’s leadership position has become virtually…
May 13, 2009Stand up, don't sit down, There's a health care crisis in this town! That was one of the many chants from the…
May 13, 2009It's hard not to read the new US Senate Finance Committee paper laying out policy options for health care reform as anything…
May 12, 2009What's up with our legal system? A bankruptcy judge just told the bankrupt Tribune Co. it could go ahead and pay $13…
May 12, 2009A Senate health care reform "policy options" document released last night gives us a good idea where national reform plans will go,…
May 12, 2009As Google’s gadfly, Consumer Watchdog has noted that the company developed a presentation trying to argue that antitrust concerns are unreasonable and…
May 12, 2009CHICAGO, IL -- University of Chicago law professor Randal Picker raised concerns recently over a court settlement that will grant Google the…
May 12, 2009Cleveland-based Medical Mutual offers the produce to those with employer-provided insurance as well as to those who buy its individual plans. As…
May 12, 2009My brain is sprained from trying to figure out the big White House meeting today between medical/insurance industry execs and President Obama.…
May 11, 2009Washington, D.C. -- President Obama and U.S. Senate health care reform leaders must not override state consumer protection laws as suggested by…
May 11, 2009You'd think with the communications resources that Google has at its disposal, the Internet giant's executives would be able to answer direct…
May 9, 2009Washington, DC -- Consumer Watchdog has sent to the U.S. Justice Department a Google document presenting the best corporate arguments for why…
May 8, 2009Is Google a monopoly? That question, which is increasingly gaining the attention of regulators in Washington, D.C., is also the subject of…
May 8, 2009Google has launched a wide-ranging campaign highlighting its "competition and openness," meeting with everyone from policymakers to media in order to convince…
May 8, 2009You can see a copy of a Google PowerPoint to that effect over at Silicon Alley Insider, which got it from Consumer…
May 8, 2009Alcohol, tobacco and oil firms, sports teams and studios could bear a larger fiscal burden if voters say no on May 19.…
May 8, 2009It's not a household name, but Frank Luntz is the brilliant deceiver of the GOP who in 2002 taught the Bush Administration…
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