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The Biden administration’s flagship broadband initiative, the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, is facing mounting criticism. Launched with the promise of bridging America’s digital divide, BEAD has yet to connect a single household or business three years in. Many point to the program’s design and the bureaucratic hurdles imposed by the [...]
Give DuckDuckGo (DDG) credit for its spirit. After 15 years of trying, the search engine ranks fifth globally. But it has stagnated and even DDG admits it isn’t on par with Google. Now, rather than innovating to surpass its competitors, DDG is asking the government to force Google to hand over the secret sauce that [...]
Broadband accessibility has rapidly transformed into a modern-day essential, integral to our nation’s economy. However, some still do not have access to basic internet connectivity, which became more evident during COVID-19. As a result, government programs like the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program were created to expand internet connectivity to unserved [...]
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is one of the most profitable and valuable firms globally, and one of the most admired. That admiration, however, does not extend to government regulators. Google is currently facing over 100 investigations worldwide, and in some of its biggest cases this year, it has come out on the losing side. While [...]
America’s digital leadership is on the ballot this fall. One option, offered by the Republican platform, is to embrace the consumer-oriented and business-led economic policies that made the US the leading country for tech startups, AI research capacity, and creating world leading tech giants. The other approach, offered by the Democratic platform, would be to [...]