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Vanderbilt University law professor Ganesh Sitaraman argued that the problems with the airline industry today can be traced back to the deregulation of the transportation sector in the 1970s…

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai spoke about the Biden administration’s trade policy agenda and why it’s crucial for the American economy and labor force. Ambassador Tai delivered rem…

A House Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing on online platforms and their impact on entrepreneurs in the U.S. In the first panel, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon representatives talked…

Technology watcher Tim Wu talked about his book, The Curse of Bigness. In his work, Mr. Wu argues that present-day big technology companies have power and influence similar to Standard Oil a…

Authors discussed the business and politics of technology.

Tim Wu talked about his book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, in which he questioned whether “big tech,” big pharma," and other corporations that are “too big to fail”…

Law scholars, antitrust experts, and former Microsoft and technology company executives took part in the first panel of a Yelp day-long conference analyzing the 2001 U.S. v. Microsoft antitr…

Panelists talked about big data. Panelists included Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, and Tim Wu, author of The …

Professor Tim Wu talked about his book The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, in which he examines the history of advertising and how marketers are vying for att…

Professor Tim Wu talked about his book, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads. He spoke in the C-SPAN 2/BookTV tent at the 21st annual Texas Book Festival. Th…

Zephyr Teachout, author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United, and Janine Wedel, author of Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt our Financ…

Timothy Wu, who coined the phrase “net neutrality,” talked about technology issues and the debate over how to manage the Internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was considering…

Panelists talked about the concept of “open Internet,” also know as “net neutrality,” and whether the Internet is a public utility. “Open Internet” refers to the idea that Internet providers…

Witnesses testified at a hearing on the ability of antitrust laws versus Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations to ensure “net neutrality.” "Net neutrality," also known as open …

Two authors discussed their books on the history of communications industries. Richard John, the author of Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (2010), focused on the histor…

The Federal Communications Commission held a public en banc hearing regarding broadband network management practices. Topics discussed included network neutrality and piracy. Also discussed …

In a hearing titled, “Content Providers' Access to Phone and Cable Networks,” witnesses testified about Internet access issues, the state of competition amongst Internet service providers, …

Technology experts talked about Internet infrastructure and the potential impact of broadband technology on the future of the Internet. Among the issues they addressed were principles for po…