Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion, in a deal aimed at strengthening Verizon's LTE wireless video and over-the-top (OTT) video platforms. AOL still offers dial-up ISP service and is also a content company with assets that include AOL.com, Engadget, Huffington Post, Makers and TechCrunch. The transaction also gives Verizon AOL’s expertise in mobile advertising, the companies said Tuesday.
Stakeholders’ perception of ICANN's development of plans for the anticipated spinoff of its Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions is expected to be the dominant topic during two ICANN-related House hearings Wednesday, though other recent ICANN-related controversies are set for debate, lawmakers and others told us. ICANN’s IANA transition and the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act (HR-805), which would prohibit NTIA from approving ICANN’s IANA transition plan until the GAO completes a study of the plan, are the sole focus at a 2 p.m. House Communications Subcommittee hearing. Vox Populi Registry’s pricing of domains within the new generic top-level domain .sucks and questions about ICANN’s oversight ability in light of the IANA transition are expected to dominate a 10 a.m. House IP Subcommittee hearing (see 1505070037).
Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion, in a deal aimed at strengthening Verizon's LTE wireless video and over-the-top (OTT) video platforms. AOL still offers dial-up ISP service and is also a content company with assets that include AOL.com, Engadget, Huffington Post, Makers and TechCrunch. The transaction also gives Verizon AOL’s expertise in mobile advertising, the companies said Tuesday.
The Senate will “resume consideration” of the motion to authorize trade debate on May 13, after Senate Democrats fell in line behind Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and shot down the procedural vote the day before. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., was the lone Democrat to break ranks on May 12 and support the measure, which failed with only 52 votes in favor. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., needed 60 votes to move the chamber to debate on trade legislation.
Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion, in a deal aimed at strengthening Verizon's LTE wireless video and over-the-top (OTT) video platforms. AOL still offers dial-up ISP service and is also a content company with assets that include AOL.com, Engadget, Huffington Post, Makers and TechCrunch. The transaction also gives Verizon AOL’s expertise in mobile advertising, the companies said Tuesday.
CAMBRIDGE, Maryland -- NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling doubted the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition will be done by the earliest possible date originally envisioned, Sept. 30. But he said progress is being made toward preserving a multistakeholder approach under IANA. The U.S. has made gains in beating back foreign government efforts to control Internet governance in general, but the battle isn't over, he said Saturday at the FCBA’s annual retreat.
CAMBRIDGE, Md. -- FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc said he wants to head off “wrongful activity” under the net neutrality order by giving industry as much guidance as possible. He promised vigorous enforcement tempered by “regulatory humility” to ensure innovation isn’t stifled. LeBlanc was among the speakers Friday and Saturday at the FCBA’s annual retreat, where net neutrality was a hot topic. The net neutrality order also reclassified broadband Internet access as a telecom service under Title II of the Communications Act (see 1502260043 and 1502260050).
CAMBRIDGE, Md. -- FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc said he wants to head off “wrongful activity” under the net neutrality order by giving industry as much guidance as possible. He promised vigorous enforcement tempered by “regulatory humility” to ensure innovation isn’t stifled. LeBlanc was among the speakers Friday and Saturday at the FCBA’s annual retreat, where net neutrality was a hot topic. The net neutrality order also reclassified broadband Internet access as a telecom service under Title II of the Communications Act (see 1502260043 and 1502260050).
CAMBRIDGE, Maryland -- NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling doubted the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition will be done by the earliest possible date originally envisioned, Sept. 30. But he said progress is being made toward preserving a multistakeholder approach under IANA. The U.S. has made gains in beating back foreign government efforts to control Internet governance in general, but the battle isn't over, he said Saturday at the FCBA’s annual retreat.
Following Thursday's 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the intelligence community’s bulk collection of metadata wasn't legal on statutory grounds (see 1505070041), the question remains how to proceed and how transparent that community should be, said experts the next day. A “little sunshine can make quite a big difference in how these programs are evaluated,” said Patrick Toomey, American Civil Liberties Union National Security Project staff attorney, at a Sunlight Foundation event. Toomey represented the ACLU in its case against the government and said the government uses standing and state secrets rules to hide information.