Silicon Valley just can’t win in Washington.
Tech: DC’s biggest loser?
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Twitter’s handle on DC evolving
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Twitter, already an established Silicon Valley player and long a DC outsider, may have little choice but to get more involved in the Washington game -- as was the case for Facebook and Google.
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An Industry Man for the FCC
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President Obama has picked a former telecommunications lobbyist and campaign fund-raiser to serve as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, raising serious questions about his 2007 pledge that corporate lobbyists would not finance his campaign or run his administration.
Silicon Valley lobby group draws critics
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It is said to have a $1 million joining fee and boasts some of technology’s biggest names among its members – including its founder, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. But Silicon Valley’s latest attempt to form a lobbying group has been attacked by rivals in the tech sector as an interference in politics that risks attracting negative publicity.
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Chairman Rockefeller concerned by lobbying past of FCC front-runner
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"A lobbyist is a lobbyist."
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