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Civil libertarians, journalists and others are understandably outraged by the recent news of a DOJ investigation that included obtaining AP writers' phone records. It's skating on thin constitutional ice to have government agents investigating whom ...

Was it appropriate for Adria Richards to tweet a photo of two men at PyCon and accuse them of being sexist? This question was originally answered on Quora.

Editor's note: Antone Johnson is a startup lawyer specializing in early-stage consumer Internet and location-based businesses. Facebook has been accused of creating a slavish copy of Snapchat. Yet Poke may turn out to be a poster child for why most ...

Here's what not to do if you hope to maximize your start-up's future value.

Last month we suggested that copyright holders stop freaking out over Pinterest. At the time, we noted there were two areas that people were panicking about: one was the terms of service and the other was whether or not Pinterest itself was violatin...

A week ago, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act was in trouble.

Once again, the Puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian "JOBS Act"—a bill that...

By Simon Johnson, co-author of White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, And Why It Matters To You From the 1970s until recently, Congress allowed and encouraged a great deal of...

Under the guise of creating jobs, the House bill would make it easier for companies to raise money from the public without fulfilling some - or in certain cases virtually all - of the obligations designed to protect investors in public companies. [....

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 21, 2012) - Today, the JOBS Act took one step closer to becoming law. On the heels of the JOBS Act passing the Senate cloture vote by a wide margin (with two amendments pending) -- which will allow companies to offe...

A spirit of bipartisanship is sweeping Capitol Hill, with lawmakers poised to approve a package of bills aimed at reducing regulatory burdens on small business.

Despite delays and opposition from several Democrats, the Senate voted to move the JOBS Act forward on Wednesday morning.

Lawyers in Silicon Valley are expressing support for a jobs bill making its way through Congress that would make it easier for small companies to raise capital and go public.

Wednesday, the Senate cloture vote on H.R. 3606, better known as the JOBS Act, passed 76-22--the package will allow companies to offer securities to non-accredited investors via crowdfunding platforms. The JOBS Act passed the House by a 390-23 vote o...