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Earlier this Summer, The Wall Street Journal reported that venture capitalists are starting to see a new market open up for which to invest their money – that being the online privacy industry. As more and more data leaks continue to permeate the financial, healthcare, and legal landscape (to name a few), VC firms […]
A confidential "vison statement" by Google, Inc., recently released and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, highlights what many companies and organizations are facing as they move deeper into the Age of Information – namely, what to do with the vast amounts of data that are stored within their IT systems. The document by […]
Now that over 90,000 "classified" documents relating to the progress, or lack thereof, of the War in Afghanistan have been disclosed by Wikileaks, many questions have been raised as to what extent the damage has been done to U.S. national security. The person alleged to have been involved in the leak, Mr. Bradley Manning, […]
After an extended hiatus from blogging, due to the birth of my new baby daughter, The Emerging Business Advocate is back! In Washington, D.C., today, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and U.S. President Barack Obama met to talk about current U.S.-British relations. As part of their meeting, the two heads of state addressed […]
The New York Times reported today that "a group of hackers said Wednesday that it had obtained the e-mail addresses of 114,000 owners of 3G Apple iPads, including those of military personnel, business executives and public figures, by exploiting a security hole on AT&T’s Web site." As access to information becomes more expansive throughout the consumer world, corporations are […]
As the technological threats to corporate well-being increasingly become an every day occurrence, more and more boardrooms are beginning to allow their Chief Technology Officer’s (CIO) a greater substantive say in how to mitigate risks associated with internal and external controls. However, that progress has not come without some fault of the CIO’s. The requests by […]
Today’s historic plummet of stock prices in New York may have been triggered by what is going on with the credit crisis in Greece and the rest of Europe; it may also have been aided by the Chinese "readjustment" of its money to account for inflation; but the most probable rumor is that high-speed, […]
In the May 2, 2010, edition of The New York Times, Noam Cohen wrote an article about how Amazon.com commenced litigation in Federal District Court in downtown Seattle, WA, to stop the State of North Carolina’s, Secretary of Revenue from auditing online businesses who do not pay sales tax, but probably owe, to North […]
This past weekend, over 2,000 members of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section, convened in Denver, CO, to take part in an information packed three day event which highlighted some of the most critical issues facing business lawyers today. The Task Force on RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification), of which I am a contributor, […]