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Senators take more antitrust and privacy shots at Google

CNet

by Matt Asay

November 20, 2007

The merger of Google and Doubleclick may mean a really bad privacy problem, Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights says.

DoubleClick collects an enormous quantity of information on individual Web users' preferences, and privacy advocates have expressed very serious concerns regarding the consequences of this data coming under the control of Google due to the fact that Google is the dominant Internet search engine and can also track individuals' search requests.

L.A. County tops in factory jobs

Los Angeles Times (CA)

by Walter Hamilton

October 23, 2007

There are 808,000 factory jobs in the five-county Southern California region, making up a bit more than 11% of the region's total employment, according to the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.

Taken by itself, Southern California's manufacturing base would rank third among states, after California as a whole and Texas. Los Angeles County is the nation's largest manufacturing center, with 462,300 jobs, topping Chicago by more than 72,000.

A Record Year for Layoffs in Finance

Business Week

by Steve Rosenbush

October 23, 2007

It's official. This is the worst year ever for layoffs in the U.S. financial-services industry-and there's still more than two months to go.

As of October, finance companies had announced 130,000 job cuts for the year to date, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That's more than double the 50,000 cuts announced in 2006 and well ahead of the record 116,000 announced in 2001.

35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore's movie

scienceandpublicpolicy.org

by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

October 18, 2007

A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine "errors" in his movie An Inconvenient Truth.

The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to send to every secondary school in England a corrected guidance note making clear the mainstream scientific position on these nine "errors", he would have made a finding that the Government's distribution of the film and the first draft of the guidance note earlier in 2007 to all English secondary schools had been an unlawful contravention of an Act of Parliament prohibiting the political indoctrination of children.

Tension Growing Between Tech Groups Regarding Green Card Proposals -- H-1B Visas

Information Week

by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

October 16, 2007

The Programmers Guild opposes expansion of the green card program for foreign tech workers, while the Semiconductor Industry Association and IEEE-USA asked Congress to revisit the program.

In a letter faxed yesterday to Congress and signed by 270 tech professionals, U.S. IT worker advocacy group the Programmers Guild urged high-ranking House and Senate committee leaders to oppose expansion of the green card program or employment-based permanent residency for foreign tech workers.

Time Warner's AOL Internet Division to Cut 2,000 Jobs

Bloomberg

by Gillian Wee

October 15, 2007

Time Warner Inc., the world's biggest media company, will eliminate 2,000 jobs at AOL, or 20 percent of the Internet unit's worldwide workforce, after subscriber defections led to a 38 percent drop in sales last quarter.

The latest cuts will pare AOL's staff to 8,000, down from about 18,000 employees in 2001, when the company bought New-York based Time Warner for $124 billion. About 1,200 of the job cuts will come from the U.S., AOL spokeswoman Anne Bentley said.

Michigan Government Shutdown Ends

The New York Times [Free Subscription Required]

by Nick Bunkley

October 1, 2007

Michigan's government resumed full operations this morning, about four hours after a potentially embarrassing and economically damaging shutdown began.

Some effects of the shutdown became apparent Sunday. Campers were ordered to leave state parks, freeway rest areas were barricaded, and several drawbridges were left up. Traffic monitoring cameras went dark at midnight.

Governors to Washington: We need more immigrants!

Immigration Chronicles (TX)

September 12, 2007

In a letter today to the House and Senate leadership, 13 governors of both parties complain that their states are being crimped by a lack of highly skilled workers -- a problem they say could be solved by bringing in more educated legal immigrants.

Specifically, the governors are calling for an increase in permanent legal immigration and a boost in temporary visas, known as H-1B visas, for highly skilled foreign workers.

Republicans Against Romney (and against Obama who is the lesser of two evils)

republicansagainstromney.com

August 11, 2007

Mitt Romney gives pro-family speeches to conservatives but has an actual record of being aggressively liberal, even socialist, anti-marriage, and pro-abortion both both before and especially after his claimed "pro-life" conversion.

Theft allegations made against Geek Squad

UPI (CA)

July 23, 2007

SANTA CLARITA -- Former members of a Geek Squad in California allege theft from customers was common among some members of the Best Buy technical support group.

Members of a Geek Squad group in Santa Clarita, Calif., said many employees would routinely steal from customers' computers during routine technical maintenance, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune said Monday.

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