Articles about Politics – Page 39 of 42

State saves nearly $1.7M by scrutinizing mobile phone use

And you thought your cell phone bill was getting out of control. Washington state agencies have saved nearly $1.7 million… Read More

Entrepreneurs to Congress: Please, make it easier to IPO

In a letter to the U.S. Senate signed by “America’s Start-up Leaders,” more than 700 entrepreneurs today urged lawmakers to… Read More

Crowding out angels from startup financings?

As early as next week, we may know whether Congress will change US securities laws to permit startups to sell… Read More

Dan Savage’s ‘Spreading Santorum’ Web spoof loses top spot on Google

Seattle sex columnist Dan Savage’s cruel, yet brilliant Web joke on Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum appears to have run… Read More

Amazon Web Services to collect sales tax on customers in Washington state

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing unit of the Seattle online retailer, notified customers in Washington state this week that… Read More

Ben Huh’s love affair with the Internet (Or why we need to protect our greatest creation)

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh appeared today at the In NW social media conference in Seattle, offering an impassioned plea on… Read More

What would Wael Ghonim do? 5 lessons from the world’s most successful online community manager

The world’s most successful online community manager was in Seattle last week, and you probably had no idea. Wael Ghonim,… Read More

Amazon board adds Jamie Gorelick, former Fannie Mae and DOJ official

Amazon.com just added a new board member: Jamie S. Gorelick, a veteran of the U.S. government and no stranger to… Read More

MercyCorps connects geeks from Gaza to Seattle

We’ve got more than our share of tech-geeks here in Seattle. You know, the guys who work at startups, or… Read More

Arizona lawmakers push for Amazon.com to collect sales tax

Arizona and Amazon appear to be at loggerheads. Legislators in the state are reportedly pushing forward with a plan to… Read More

Here’s what Jay Inslee wants to do to keep the state’s tech industry humming

There’s no shortage of ideas in Jay Inslee’s economic plan for Washington state. The Democratic candidate for governor released a… Read More

Obama presses Americans to win the innovation race and support the next Steve Jobs

Ingenuity, innovation and entrepreneurship are cornerstones of the American experience, attributes that the United States should support, encourage and bankroll… Read More

A new era: Google outspends Microsoft in federal lobbying

Google is speaking loud and clear in Washington D.C., nearly doubling its expenditures on federal lobbying efforts last year. Cnet’s… Read More

Microsoft voices support for same-sex marriage in Washington state

Microsoft is among several technology companies that voiced support this week for bills that would legalize same-sex marriage in Washington… Read More

Facing pressure from tech giants, politicians postpone PIPA and SOPA votes

Just three days after the blackout of Wikipedia and other sites, U.S. legislators have postponed votes on the Stop Online… Read More

Bring on the nerds! Jon Stewart’s hilarious look at the SOPA fight

The Stop Online Piracy Act certainly has generated plenty of controversy in recent days, highlighted by the Wednesday blackouts of… Read More

Watch Ben Huh debate an NBC executive over SOPA

It took an email from my mom in Ohio to realize just how big the controversy over the Stop Online… Read More

Seattle snow storm stops SOPA protest in its tracks

For the past few days, Seattle’s Zachary Cohn has been spending his days and nights planning for a January 18th rally… Read More

And so it begins: Wikipedia turns off the lights and Google blacks out logo in SOPA protest

Sorry students, journalists, Internet researchers and just about everyone else looking for a tidbit of information related to, well, just… Read More

Amazon: We dislike piracy, but ‘strongly oppose’ SOPA

Amazon.com will not be blacking out its Web site tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act as Cheezburger… Read More

Google will alter its home page as part of protest against SOPA

Google often plays around with its popular home page, showing creative doodles to celebrate various activities going on in the… Read More

Cheezburger celebrates five years of LOLs, plans January 18th blackout to protest SOPA

Who could have imagined that a Web site featuring oddly-worded captions accompanying cat photos could one day hold so much… Read More

Geek of the Week: U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel is on a mobile mission at CES

Posting from Las Vegas: The last time we bumped into Steven VanRoekel at the Consumer Electronics Show, he was working… Read More

A big day on the 520 bridge: Why I’m happy about the tolls

Today the Seattle region begins a massive experiment in behavioral psychology and regional transportation. Following the holiday week, it’s the… Read More

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh calls SOPA ‘cancer to the free web,’ threatens to ditch GoDaddy

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh is threatening to remove the company’s 1,000 domain names off of GoDaddy after the huge Internet… Read More

Rich venture capitalist Nick Hanauer sounds off (again) on why his taxes need to be raised

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer was one of the most vocal supporters last year of Initiative 1098, a measure that… Read More

Geek Humor: Why this foul-mouthed California politician refuses to use his Kindle

I thought the whole Amazon online sales tax debate had pretty much blown over in California, following a September compromise in… Read More

Public banner in Seattle criticizes Microsoft over taxes, but it’s not quite accurate

It’s not unusual to see banners in the public square at the busy intersection of Market Street, 22nd Ave. N.W.… Read More

Geek of the Week: Toby Crittenden mixes politics and technology at Washington Bus

Toby Crittenden is a political geek — part of a generation that makes intuitive use of technology as a natural… Read More

New WA tech chief comes from Microsoft, with cloud cred

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire today named a Microsoft veteran, Bharat Shyam, as the state’s new chief information officer. Shyam, who… Read More