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San Francisco-based entrepreneur Garrett Johnson is usually too busy with his messaging start-up for much travel, but one issue has inspired him to cross the country: immigration reform.On February 5, he and a dozen other entrepreneurs will head to Washington to talk with members of Congress about why new visa rules are needed to bring in the kind of talent that would help their companies grow.They are striking now because Congress has taken up immigration in recent weeks, with a group of legislators working to find some sort of reform that would be acceptable to a majority of Congress, a staffer familiar with the situation says.The skilled-worker visa reform the entrepreneurs want is relatively uncontroversial. Yet many Democrats say they do not want to address it without also taking up a thornier question: giving the 12 million or more people in the country illegally the chance to gain legal resident status and even become U.S. citizens.While big technology companies have long schmoo...
Media Analyst Peter Guber breaks down whether Tinsel Town will back President Obama in 2012.
FBN's Rich Edson on the backlash from Hollywood over the SOPA bill.
U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Friday postponed a showdown vote in his chamber on the PIPA online anti-piracy bill that pits Hollywood against Silicon V...
Popular file-sharing sites, Megaupload and Megavideo, were shut down by federal prosecutors on Thursday and hackers from Anonymous retaliated by launching an attack ...
Rep. Lamar Smith, (R-Texas), on the purpose of the Stop Online Piracy Act.
The Internet is conducting a protest of sorts today in opposition to two pieces of anti-piracy legislation making their way through Congress.Wikipedia , one of the m...
Gregory Kovacs, Mozilla CEO, on the SOPA bill and why Mozilla has chosen to black out its site in protest of the anti-piracy bill.
Protests over controversial anti-piracy legislation escalated Wednesday, as opponents planned demonstrations in New York and San Francisco, lawmakers took sides, and...
Wikipedia , the world's free online encyclopedia, went dark on Wednesday and other Internet players including Google put black censorship bars on portions of their w...
This morning, online photo sharing site Flickr joined the growing number of web companies protesting the SOPA and PIPA legislation , which now include Google , Wiki...
Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., argues SOPA will not take down online piracy.
You may have already noticed Google's homepage features a large black rectangle "censoring" its colorful logo Wednesday.Google is not shutting down their website lik...
In its latest effort to squash efforts by Beijing to restrict online content, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) began warning people in mainland China on Thursday that certain ke...
FBN’s Dennis Kneale on efforts to stop Internet piracy despite SOPA being shelved.
China's top search engine, Baidu Inc, plans to begin monetising its mobile search traffic and social media platforms this year in an effort to boost growth outside i...
After popular file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down last week by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation , the next site in danger could be the aptly named ...
Google , Bing, Yahoo and other search engines have been accused of encouraging piracy.The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and other groups representing the UK's ...
FBN’s Judge Andrew Napolitano questions whether the Stop Online Piracy Act infringes on the 5th amendment right to a trial.
Data Security Expert for Data Clone Labs Ira Victor says that not only will SOPA be ineffective but it will be dangerous for our online safety.
