For many businesses, ownership of the Internet of Things lies within a number of C-suite titles. But IoT demands an interdisciplinary approach, whether the desired outcome is to streamline internal processes, introduce new customer experiences or uncover new revenue. This requires collaboration among multiple business units, some of which traditionally work independently from each other. Read More
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The Senate is off to its best year since 1990 by at least one measure, with more than 30 of its bills having been signed into law by President Obama.
Eighteen months into Republican control of the Senate, the upper chamber has settled into a new normal. The partisan fights ...
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Mobile events and conferences company DoubleDutch announced today that it will be laying off 55 of its employees as a part of a company-wide restructuring. The company, founded in 2011, has raised over $78 million in funding to power its mobile tools which allow event organizers to create dedicated app experiences that give them the ability to easily share information with attendees… Read More 
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Carlos Beruff, who is challenging Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the Republican primary and has portrayed himself as the race's "Washington outsider," employs a Washington-based political consultant named Curt Anderson and is using a campaign talking point that another client of Anderson's has also used.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's campaign finance watchdog is issuing a fine to ride-sharing service Lyft for repeatedly breaking state campaign finance disclosure laws over the last three years.
Lyft has agreed to pay the state $6,000 to settle a case of what the Fair Political Practices Commission characterized Monday ...
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Universal Avenue, the Stockholm-headquartered startup that lets companies access a local sales force on-demand, has closed a deal of its own. The company has raised $10 million in fresh Series A funding, adding to the $5 million "extension" to its seed round a little under a year ago and bringing total funding to $17 million. Read More 
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Each year, Congress appropriates funds for programs that were never authorized or whose authorizations have long since lapsed. These "zombie programs" continue to operate with little to no oversight or evaluation and cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars annually for activities that in some cases have outlived their ...
Tesla is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Wall Street Journal reported, for a possible securities law breach. What's at issue is whether the electric vehicle company should have notified shareholders immediately following a fatal accident on May 7th that killed a Tesla Model S owner who was using Autopilot at the time of the crash. A spokesperson… Read More 
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The Democratic Party has adopted the $15 minimum wage on its platform despite presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton's fears that it will eliminate jobs.
Democrats on Monday released their proposed 2016 platform, which lays out the party's official principles and policy statements. The party officially endorsed the $15 minimum wage at the center of a long-running union campaign. The wage rate, which is more than double the federal minimum of $7.25, would also apply to tipped workers, such as waiters, who earn $2.13 an hour.
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BOSTON (AP) - Two Massachusetts lawmakers want to make attacks against police officers a hate crime.
Democratic Reps. Michelle DuBois and Alan Silvia filed a bill after the fatal shooting of five officers in Dallas on Thursday.
The bill would add police officers to the list of protected classes under ...
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A senior Iranian official announced Monday afternoon that the United States has completed a $8.6 million taxpayer-funded purchase of Iranian nuclear materials, a deal undertaken by the Obama administration to keep Iran in compliance with last summer's nuclear agreement.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A committee probing the possible impeachment of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is hiring special counsel to lead the investigation.
The House Judiciary Committee will meet Friday to discuss and approve the appointment.
The committee is looking into whether there are grounds to impeach the Republican governor ...
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Last week the U.S Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion that an employee acted "without authorization" when he used a old coworker's login (with their permission) to gain access to "computer data owned by the former employer". This led to the court upholding a decision that the employee violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a federal law… Read More 
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Democratic senators have been assigned conservative nonprofit groups to call out by name on the chamber floor in speeches on Monday and Tuesday criticizing corporations and advocacy groups for opposing Democratic climate policies, internal emails reveal.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Former Democratic Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager has been selected as chair of Wisconsin's new Ethics Commission.
Lautenschlager was picked as chair Monday after lots were drawn to determine that the first leader of the commission would be a Democrat. Members of the six-member commission to oversee ...
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People are fascinated by the relationship between free will and a pre-destined path. This relationship has never been more interesting than in today's digital world, where the ultimate goal of most companies is to personalize their web content based on your demographic data and known preferences. Read More 
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A Navajo artist in New Mexico has created a hat that touts "Make America Native Again." A Mexican-American activist in Brooklyn, New York, is selling a cap with the words "Make America Mexico Again."
As presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump prepares to formally accept the ...
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In the past two years, more than 2 million Chevrolet cars with 4G LTE data connections have been sold, and according to GM, those connections have chewed through 3 million gigabytes of data. Now each of those bytes will cost half as much, since Chevrolet is dropping the price of its data by 50%. Where a 1 GB per month plan used to cost $20, now it's $10. Annual plans are still $150, but… Read More 
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