Google Makes Most of Close Ties to White House. With appointment after appointment, Google’s ideas are taking hold in D.C. A man walks past a Google sign at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. on June 5, 2014 file photo.
Google, once disdainful of lobbying, now a master of Washington influence. Google's Eric Schmidt is no stranger to D.C.
He has spent lots of time at the White House and on Capitol Hill lobbying on behalf of his titan technology company. But his relationship with Washington and the Obama administration has not always been a comfortable one. Tom Hamburger Matea Gold E-mail the writers In May 2012, the law school at George Mason University hosted a forum billed as a “vibrant discussion” about Internet search competition.
What the guests had not been told was that the day-long academic conference was in large part the work of Google, which maneuvered behind the scenes with GMU’s Law & Economics Center to put on the event. In the weeks leading up to the GMU event, Google executives suggested potential speakers and guests, sending the center’s staff a detailed spreadsheet listing members of Congress, FTC commissioners, and senior officials with the Justice Department and state attorney general’s offices.
Google's states of play. Google is a Washington powerhouse that shapes federal law, rewards congressional allies and boasts a new 54,000-square-foot office, just down the road from the U.S.
Capitol. But the Internet giant quietly has planted its political roots in places far beyond the Beltway — in state legislatures and city councils that have become hotbeds for tech policy fights. The company has hired an army of lobbyists from coast to coast as it seeks to protect its self-driving cars, computer-mounted glasses and other emerging technologies from new rules and restrictions, according to an analysis of state records. It’s an aggressive offensive meant to counter local regulators, who increasingly cast a skeptical eye on Silicon Valley and its ambitious visions for the future. Continue Reading. How Google Got States To Legalize Driverless Cars - Personal Tech on Top Tech News.
About four years ago, the Google team trying to develop cars driven by computers -- not people -- became convinced that sooner than later, the technology would be ready for the masses.
There was one big problem: Driverless cars were almost certainly illegal. And yet this week, Google said it wants to give Californians access to a small fleet of prototypes it will make without a steering wheel or pedals. The plan is possible because, by this time next year, driverless cars will be legal in the tech giant's home state. And for that, Google can thank Google, and an unorthodox lobbying campaign to shape the road rules of the future in car-obsessed California -- and maybe even the rest of the nation -- that began with a game-changing conversation in Las Vegas.
The campaign was based on a principle that businesses rarely embrace: ask for regulation. Here, in neighboring Nevada, he said, where the Legislature famously has an impulse to regulate lightly. Google cozies up to GOP. Google has long been known as Barack Obama's BFF: The company and its employees made the Top 5 list of contributors to the president's 2008 campaign.
Its executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, endorsed Obama and donated $25,000 to his inauguration fund. And Obama tapped Schmidt as an unpaid adviser. But that's all so 2008. Continue Reading Schmidt testifies on the Hill In 2012, the search giant based in bright blue Silicon Valley has wrapped itself in red, hiring a string of Republicans and even hosting a GOP presidential debate Thursday night with Fox News. Tech observers say Google is finally wising up politically: Playing clear favorites with one party or the other was bound to backfire in Washington.
But neither the company's reputation as liberal corporate poster child, nor its more recent rightward tack seem to be paying off so far. Google tapped for Tampa convention. Top Google Lobbyist Leaving the Search Giant.
Google Lobbying in Fance. These Letters Reveal Which Congressmen Google Has In Its Pocket. Kinja is in read-only mode.
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