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In Defense of Capitalism
I am fortunate to have watched my father at a young age start TMC – the company where I am CEO and turn it into a company which has helped feed thousands over its 40-year history when you consider contractors,...
Big News: Marc Andreessen to Support Romney
The biggest issue the US currently faces is a lack of jobs and perversely we have a President who has never actually worked in the private sector. To keep this from becoming a partisan post, President Bush was in the...
Bain Capital, Romney, Vulture Investing and 15% Tax Rates
A shout out to investors everywhere I haven’t seen this level of funding in the tech space in years – I would go so far as to say the amount of funding is the greatest I’ve seen since 2000. I...
Herman Cain Page Views Greater Than Others Combined
As of tomorrow it will be three weeks since I wrote my post regarding Herman Cain Crushing it Online and to see how much staying power he has I went back to Alexa and did some analysis on all the...
Herman Cain Crushing it Online
Just a week ago the common wisdom was the Republican nominee would be either Mitt Romney or Rick Perry but when Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll this past weekend it showed that clear cut leaders are not as...
Why Blocked AT&T, T-Mobile USA Deal is Good for Growth
Critics might say, in the history of M&A, it is difficult to recall one instance where more jobs were created as a result of two companies coming together. Yet this is the argument AT&T has been making for just less...
New Google Antitrust Probe and the Obama Connection
I asked in January of 2009 if Eric Schmidt was intentionally cozying up to candidate and then president Obama to protect a Google monopoly. The same year I brought the question up again as a response to an article in...
Telecommuting Tax: Now The States Are Killing Jobs
In August of last year I explained why there are so few jobs – in part the problem revolves around demonizing the successful by our politicians and in-part because of excessive taxation. Part of the support for my post was...
Which Kills More Jobs - The iPad or US Politicians?
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. recently went on a rant discussing how the iPad is produced in China and is responsible for killing jobs and is responsible for Borders going bankrupt. He continued to rail against universities who have adopted the...
President Obama Needs to be at ITEXPO
I recently learned that President Obama isn't happy with the old White House telephone. According to Fox News he said: The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff," he said during a...
So Google Can Alter its Results Manually?
Recently it was reported that former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt tried to have his political contributions hidden from Google. The news reminded me that a few years back I wrote about the cozy relationship between Schmidt and President Obama...
The Pros and Cons of Facebook Hiring Robert Gibbs
Photo courtesy of AP This weekend it was reported by the New York Times that former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs may take a job helping to manage the communications at Facebook. Here are the pros and cons...
How China is Unleashing a Sales Boom for Tech and Media
Shanghai at NightIn many parts of the world, rampant pirating of products takes its toll on businesses costing billions of dollars of lost sales and value. While countries like Iran violate rampantly with no signs of improvement, others are slowly...
Verizon Drives Stake Through Heart of Net Neutrality
Updated with modified quote from Hunter Newby January 28, 2011, 8:15 AM EST Updated again January 28, 2011, 4:37 PM EST for grammatical reasons -- My views have shifted on net neutrality over the years - to the point where...
New TMC Political Blog
Over the past years the economic and political climate has in many ways overshadowed in importance the tech happenings of the day. The historic elections of this week where the turnout was so great shows the tremendous interest the country...
Did the FTC Let Google Off Easy?
You have likely heard Google was investigated by the FTC for privacy breaches regarding its Street View data gathering practices which collected passwords and emails in some cases. TMC’s Erin Harrison covered this news explaining the FTC dropped the case...
The Most Important Elections of our Lives
For my US readers, next week’s election may be the most important of our lifetimes and if you have noticed my writings have become more political these past few years it is only because politics has become a far greater...
Chamber of Commerce Vs. Obama
For a President with such a calm and cool demeanor, it may seem surprising that a book titled The Roots of Obama's Rage is number four on the New York Times best Seller list. The book focuses on how Barrack...
More US Problems and a Few Solutions
I have said many times the reason the US is in as bad a situation as it is today has to do with the fact that the Internet has accelerated the transfer of manufacturing jobs to China and service jobs...
Social Networks and Political Contributions
A growing trend in politics is to allow donors to share their contributions with the world. I donated money to two candidates in as many days and at the end of each donation was a request to have me share...
Jack Welch Explains Why You Have no Job
Admired as one of the best CEOs in the world, former GE CEO Jack Welch explains in a no-nonsense way why the Obama adminsitration is not only killing jobs today but will continue killing them for years to come. This...
What Would Reagan Say About Increased Taxes?
Left Coast Rebel points out the following video which is worth watching as it is the exact same debate which is taking place today. The only difference is Obama is being played by George H.W. Bush and the Tea Party...
Hope, Change and Reality Don't Mix
Please read this horrifying story.I know, I know, we should spend even more on stimulus. The government is just so amazingly efficient. ;)...
Dear Government, Please Stop "Helping" Us
I have said before that the Obama administration has been the most anti-business of any administration I have ever seen. There is hostility towards success achieved through legal business means and demonization of virtually every profession (except ironically lawyers, professors...
Goldman's Interest in Green IPO Helps Obama Relationship
I read with tremendous interest about Goldman Sachs and their unusual interest in PetroAlgae, a company in the renewable energy field which is not only small but losing money. Generally a company like Goldman would laugh at such a small...
