The Obama administration launched a campaign yesterday to leverage the power of technology and the entrepreneurial spirit to build the next generation of tech leaders. The White House event, called “Startup America,”
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President Barack Obama’s pledge to significantly reorganize federal agencies is already taking shape. “My administration will develop a proposal to merge, consolidate and reorganize the federal government in a way that best
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President Barack Obama said last night in his State of the Union address that, in fact, the state of the union is strong. But, that’s not stopping him from tweaking it just
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Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have announced a public roundtable for next week on the federal government’s efforts to engage industry. The Jan. 25
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The White House’s cybersecurity coordinator said the administration will provide universities and private companies with information about cyber threats from the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies. “I think we all recognize
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Top White House officials are attempting to smooth out one of the still-untamed aspects of the Wild, Wild West atmosphere of the Internet: secure online identities. At a Stanford University forum Friday,
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A new report ranking public sector, industry and advocacy organizations on their adoption of social media and digital savvy found that some government organizations – archaic reputations notwithstanding – are actually geniuses
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Intellectual property crime in the cyber age has long been a concern, with one notable estimate putting the loss by American business at $1 trillion. However, a new report by the Commerce
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The Wall Street Journal reports the Obama administration will announce a new “stepped-up” strategy for dealing with online privacy, including a privacy watchdog, when the Commerce Department releases a new report in
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