Media +Technology Intelligence
The net neutrality debate, already heating up here in Washington since FCC chairman Julius Genachowski’s speech to the Brookings Institution last week, got additional fuel on Monday when the Washington Post weighed in with an oddly snide editorial opposing the chairman’s proposal to regulate the way ISPs manage their networks. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski Read More …
As I noted in my last post, The Media Wonk will be hosting the first Digital Breakfast DC panel discussion on Oct. 1 on the topic of Technology and IP Enforcement, including the role of the White House IP Enforcement Coordinator, a new position created by the PRO-IP Act last year. Today, President Barack Obama named former Read More …
The Media Wonk will be hosting the first Digital Breakfast DC conference on Oct. 1 in, not surprisingly, Washington, DC. The topic for the panel is Using Tech to Safeguard Content and IP. Panelists include Rick Cotton, general counsel of NBC Universal, Prof. Peter Jaszi of Washington College of Law at American University, Jon Baumgarten, partner with Read More …
Last week, Google launched its long-expected bid to conquer the online display advertising business to complement its domination of the search ad market by unveiling the new, auction-based DoubleClick Ad Exchange, built on the ad-serving company it acquired in 2007 for $3.1 billion and has spent the two years since steering through the regulatory process. Read More …
It’s long been clear that there were too many video stores in America for anyone’s good. In the go-go years of the early 1990s, national chains like Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery were adding stores at a clip of nearly one a day, each. Regional chains and independent operators expanded as well, until there Read More …