If you're just an average investor, how can you pick up on whether or not a company is cooking its books? Craig Newmark recently pointed to one of the neater ways in which someone might be able to determine if the numbers they're examining are following

That’s a big score for defenders of Internet freedom: On Friday, responding to strong public reactions and grassroots campaigns, key members of the House and Senate put scheduled votes on the über-contentious SOPA and PIPA bills on ice. —KA The Wall Stre

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People have asked me about the whole SOPA thing, how bad a law it could be. Sure, SOPA and PIPA are really destructive, potentially damaging US competitiveness and genuinely killing jobs. However, there's some good news associated with the reaction to th

About 200 of Silicon Valley’s technology-employed rallied in front of San Francisco’s city hall Wednesday, protesting the US House bill called the “Stop Online Piracy Act” — or SOPA, and its mate in Senate, PIPA. Speakers railed against US Representative

About 200 people, many of them technology entrepreneurs and startup employees, gathered at noon in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. Speakers at Wednesday’s rally implored legislators to work more closely with technology companies in drafting and imple

It’s described as Hollywood v. Silicon Valley, a battle of powerful giants, the entertainment world against the tech world, and at first, the entertainment world won out -- the Stop Online Piracy Act soared through its first Senate hearing and won unanim

A group of tech entrepreneurs, software developers, and start-up employees assembled in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza in front of city hall on Wednesday to show their staunch opposition to SOPA, the anti-piracy bill. Over a hundred people came out t

The entertainment industry is trying to use its political power in Washington, which its spent decades amassing, to force laws that would harm consumers, smother free speech and dampen — if not kill off — a very innovative sector of the economy. In the l

As you probably already know, a number of websites have gone silent today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act currently being considered by Congress and the Senate's similarly controversial Protect IP Act. And while Google, which has previously voic

Things can go real bad real fast in the current legislative environment, particularly considering how much money is being thrown by lobbyist types, particularly via Super PACs. It's also a major problem that there's so little knowledge of technology and

WASHINGTON - Former senator Chris Dodd, the chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has slammed plans by prominent websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit to protest against proposed anti-piracy legislation, calling a planned

The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act being debated in the U.S. Congress still have major problems, opponents said Monday, even after the bills' lead sponsors promised to take out some much-criticized portions of the legislation. With new opp

January 17, 2012, 3:28 PM — The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act being debated in the U.S. Congress still have major problems, opponents said Monday, even after the bills' lead sponsors promised to take out some much-criticized portions of t

Sites like Wikipedia and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) have vowed to take new steps in opposing SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, as the debate over the controversial proposed legislation continues. SOPA seeks to give new powers to law enforcement and copyright

Don’t let Tuesday's forecast of clear skies in Vancouver fool you. The latest tempest to blow over Teapot Canucks arrived this morning when Ryan Kesler was asked to comment on something Alain Vigneault had said last night after the Canucks’ 4-2 loss to A

Read through Wonkbook today and you'll get both the best case for reelecting President Obama, and the single issue most likely to stand between him and a second term. (Reuters) The case for Obama comes by way of Andrew Sullivan. It's worth reading, if fo

The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act being debated in the U.S. Congress still have major problems, opponents said Monday, even after the bills' lead sponsors promised to take out some much-criticized portions of the legislation. Even as offi

With an appraised value of $1.15 million, the future owner of Teodora will have to pay through the nose to acquire the green 57,500-carat gem that is to go on auction in Kelowna, B.C. , later this month... Most of the buzz around Roger Federer and Rafael