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Watchdog Planned for Online Privacy

Julia Angwin, Editor, Digits, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 12, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

The Obama Administration is preparing a stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort, according to people familiar with the situation.

Intel Hires Antitrust Expert as General Counsel

John Paczkowski in News on November 13, 2009 at 10:14 am PT

With Intel’s longstanding legal dispute with AMD resolved, Douglas Melamed, the company’s new general counsel, will have one less thing to worry about when he starts work–not that he lacks the experience to deal with it.

Mr. Newspaper Goes to Washington, Comes Back Without a Bailout

Peter Kafka in Media on April 22, 2009 at 4:46 am PT

The newspaper industry wants help from Washington. But it’s not going to get it anytime soon. That’s the takeaway from a Congressional hearing yesterday, where some industry executives pleaded their case–specifically, that they need a change in antitrust law to survive. But if they were thinking that the Obama administration would be receptive to that sort of thing, they got a swift rebuke.