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Design startups heating up DC
- D.C. is full of designers making both the physical and virtual world look great. Our 50 on Fire design finalists are architects, web designers and creative brand promoters who know how to make the city and its businesses look their best. Check out who made the list and then find out which of them will win on Thursday.
Net neutrality to be judged by those who actually understand tech
- The battle over net neutrality in court took an interesting turn on Friday. It turns out the judges may be a bit more tech savvy than most people assumed. But is that a good or bad fact for the FCC's defense?
Mark Cuban wants to keep the SEC out of his email
- Mark Cuban does not like the SEC, not too surprising after they investigated him for insider trading. He wants to make sure the agency can't go looking at his emails without his permission or a warrant and he reached out Congress to demand that there be no special exemption for the SEC as lawmakers work on updating email privacy rules. Whether he can be as persuasive to them as he is to some of the startups on Shark Tank is less obvious.
Meet the FTC's new CTO
- Technological issues are taking up a bigger share of the FTC's work every year. It's hard to believe it took the agency this long to find chief technologist, considering that fact, but the post has finally been filled. Meet the FTC's technologist in the Hill's report here.
