Let’s Make a Deal
Brand Marketing
If there’s one Beltway certainty this year, it’s that the fiscal mess will not divert attention away from lawmakers and regulators spooling out even more red tape to govern the [...]
Sandy Knocks Out 25 Percent of Communications
Performance Marketing
Sandy wreaked havoc with the nation's communications from Virginia to Massachusetts and as far west as Michigan. The slow-moving monster took out about 25 percent of wireless, broadband, cable and [...]
FCC Spectrum Auctions: Big Deal Or No Deal?
Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski called today's launch of the world's first incentive spectrum auctions a "big deal." But depending on TV broadcasters' participation, it could turn out to [...]
FCC Launches World’s First Incentive Spectrum Auctions
Performance Marketing
Many of the issues addressed by the Federal Communications Commission fall into the category of high geek and rarely draw a crowd. Not today. Friday’s meeting, to launch the world’s [...]
Wireless Spectrum To Take Center Stage At Next FCC Meeting
Performance Marketing
The Federal Communications Commission is set to begin the Herculean task of holding spectrum auctions to meet the nation's growing demand for wireless services. At the agency's next meeting on [...]
The Internet’s Role in the Democratic Platform
Performance Marketing
With many of president Obama's top financial contributors in Silicon Valley—Microsoft and Google PACs are the second and third biggest contributors, per Open Secrets, a website that tracks political contributions—it [...]