Finance Geek

Amazon’s founder talks with Steven Levy about the new Kindle Fire, cloud computing, social media, cultural pioneering and sending people into space.

More…

Two fundamental issues lie at the heart of the contentious battle over the Federal Communications Commision’s (FCC) attempt to establish “network neutrality” regulations over the freewheeling Internet. Freedom of speech is not one of them.
This came as a surprise to the Smith College students I met recently when I was invited to campus to debate the issue. But then, many things surprised them regarding both the history of the FCC’s role in regulating telecommunications and numerous facts about how the Internet was built-by whom, why they built it, and how it actually…

More…