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Obama’s Silicon Valley Connection Cools

Danny Yadron, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 23 at 2:32 pm PT

President Barack Obama returned Wednesday to Silicon Valley to collect at least $3 million in campaign donations from the center of the tech world.

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U.S. Targets Tech’s Role in Oppression

Laura Meckler and Jared A. Favole, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 23 at 12:05 pm PT

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order targeting people and companies facilitating human-rights abuses with technology, part of a broader push by the White House to combat mass atrocities at a time of heightened concern over civilian massacres in places like Syria.

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JOBS Act Got Boost From AOL Co-Founder

Andrew Ackerman and Michael Rapoport, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 5 at 2:04 pm PT

The bill signed Thursday by President Barack Obama that loosens accounting rules for start-up companies owes much to billionaire Steve Case — whose own company was one of the highfliers of the ’90s dot-com boom but later suffered accounting scandals.

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In Wake of Groupon Issues, Critics Wary of JOBS Act

Michael Rapoport, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 1 at 5:11 pm PT

A little-noticed provision in the new JOBS Act would allow companies to iron out disagreements with regulators behind closed doors before they go public — a provision that might have prevented investors from finding out about Groupon Inc.’s early accounting questions until after they had been resolved.