On Monday morning, the world’s leading online technology companies – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and AOL – launched a coordinated campaign against online government spying. Saying that it’s, “time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information,” the CEOs of […]
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Will self-interested corporations succeed where privacy advocates have failed, and force a roll back of online government spying?
Posted in Civil Liberties Also tagged AOL, Apple, big data, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Google, internet, internet business, LinkedIn, Mozilla, NSA, privacy, ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com, surveillance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, Twitter, Yahoo 8 Comments
What can we learn from Boulder?
Wednesday night, on a tip from our tech entrepreneur friend Dug Song (who, by the way, just launched a new blog on Ann Arbor Startups), I went to hear a venture capitalist from Boulder, Colorado speak at the University of Michigan Business School. Professor David Brophy, the man behind Michigan’s annual Growth Capital Symposium, had […]
Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Locally Owned Business, Michigan, Observations, Sustainability Also tagged Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Startups, Because having a boss sucks, Boston, Boulder, Colorado, David Brophy, Denver, Department of Energy, Dug Song, Entrepreneurs Unplugged, Foundry Group, Growth Capital Symposium, hippy college town, IT, Jason Mendelson, Kleiner Perkins, mentorship, New Tech Meetup, Silicon Flatirons, Silicon Valley, software, Startup Weekend, TechStars, toxic environment, University of Colorado at Boulder, venture capital 8 Comments