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With the Trump administration cutting regulations and funding for programs that aim to safeguard immigrants, tech giants used their seemingly endless cash piles in 2017 fighting against it.

Dreyer Smit · Jan 23, 2018 with 7 comments

TechNet, a lobbying firm representing Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and more, have sent a letter to Congress in support of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.

Max Slater-Robins · Apr 14, 2013 · Hot! with 17 comments

Google invaded this week's Republican National Convention with an awesome coffee bar, featuring complimentary a 60MB/s internet connection. The only catch? Lots of advertising and political pandering.

Tyler Holman · Aug 31, 2012 · Hot! with 38 comments

Google spent a company-record $5.03 million on lobbying last quarter (Q1 2012), a drastic increase over the $3.76 million it spent in government lobbying the previous quarter.

Anthony Tosie · Apr 23, 2012 with 14 comments

After six and a half years, Google has finally surpassed Microsoft on the amount of money it spent lobbying the US government last year. Wait for it... here come the 'Don't Be Evil' remarks.

Tyler Holman · Jan 23, 2012 · Hot! with 21 comments

Open-source activists gathered at LinuxWorld Expo late last week to protest what they say are anti-Linux campaigns being spearheaded on Capitol Hill by rivals the SCO Group and Microsoft. Thursday evening, Linux lobbyists, academics, programmers...

· Jan 28, 2004 with -1 comments

Straight from the jaws of Slashdot: "Along with suing Novell - it was announced today that SCO has been lobbying Congress about the horrifying ways that Linux and the rest of open source...

· Jan 21, 2004 with -1 comments