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Google to sponsor Sayfie Review’s Florida Leaders Summit

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Justin Sayfie, publisher of the Sayfie Review, announced Monday Internet search giant Google will help underwrite its upcoming Florida Leaders Summit confab in Orlando. Announcing the recently reorganized Internet behemoth as a “Gulf Sponsor,” Sayfie wrote on his news aggregation site that “Google’s generous sponsorship will help provide all Summit attendees with an exceptional Summit experience.” Sayfie billed the event, now in its third consecutive year, as an “invitation-only, nonpartisan event for Florida’s top leaders, modeled after the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.” Sayfie recently announced a…

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High-tech cars bring Detroit, Silicon Valley face to face

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The office has all the trappings of a high-tech startup. There’s a giant beanbag in the foyer and erasable, white board walls for brainstorming. Someone’s pet dog lounges happily on the sunny balcony. Welcome to the Palo Alto home of the Ford Motor Co., six miles from the headquarters of Google. Meanwhile, in a squat, industrial building in suburban Detroit, a short drive from Ford’s headquarters, workers are busy building a small fleet of driverless cars. The company behind them?…

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The ABCs of Google’s new name Alphabet

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What’s in a name? Most corporate naming experts say Google‘s decision to reorganize its businesses under a new holding company called “Alphabet” is close to letter perfect. Because it is part of Google’s corporate structure, Alphabet is not likely to become part of the lexicon like “Googling” did; it will mainly be used on Wall Street. But the name Alphabet itself is simple and fits with Google’s reputation as being “user friendly and elementary,” says Tom Sepanski, naming and verbal…

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Kathy Castor says the economic sanctions on Cuba need to go

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For the first time since severing ties in 1961, the U.S. and Cuba reopened embassies in each other’s capitals today. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla traveled to the Cuban Embassy in Washington to raise his country’s flag, an event that was broadcast live on the island’s state-run TV. Tampa Bay area Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor has been a passionate advocate for liberalizing relations with the Communist island since she traveled there in 2013.  She attended today’s flag-raising ceremony at the Cuban embassy,…

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Online tools fuel local government vitality

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Google is a giant. It is a giant success, giant company, and a giant in its industry. Did you know, though, that Gmail, one of the most popular email platforms on the Internet, was thought up, tested, and proposed during what is referred to as “dabble time”? Google encourages its employees to use 20 percent of their time to work on personal projects and ideas with the intention of it resulting in ways to improve Google’s offerings to its users.…

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Bill to combat Internet piracy passes in Florida Senate

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Websites that distribute commercial movies and music online would be required to identify their owners under legislation passed by the Florida Senate. The Senate passed the bill Wednesday despite opposition from some of the nation’s biggest Internet companies. The House may take up the bill as early as Thursday. Proponents, including the recording industry and The Walt Disney Co., say the bill would protect consumers from viruses that often come with illegal downloads. They argue that it merely attaches the…

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Legislative committee week cancelled

Senate President Joe Negron and House Speaker Richard Corcoran have cancelled next week’s legislative committee week because of Hurricane Irma, they

Internet companies oppose Florida proposals to regulate web

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Some Florida lawmakers want to impose state-level regulations on the free-wheeling online world, and are drawing opposition from some of the nation’s biggest Internet companies including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Ebay. The conflict is over two proposed laws. One would affect who controls a person’s email and social media accounts and the secrets they may contain when the owner dies or becomes incapacitated. The other would make the state a combatant against Internet piracy of music and movies. The bills’…

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