TechTaffy

tech:

taffy

Nancy Pelosi Voices Her Concern On SOPA

By TechTaffy Desk

Calfornia Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi has voiced her concern about Stop Piracy Online Act (SOPA) on Twitter.  “Need to find a better solution than #SOPA #DontBreakTheInternetMT @jeffreyrodman: Where do you stand on Internet censoring and #SOPA?” reads her tweet. Jeffrey Rodman is Polycom’s Co-founder and Chief Evangelist.

A hearing in the House of Representatives on the Bill started Wednesday. The Bipartisan bill to combat online piracy was introduced on October 26th. of  this year.

 

 

Just in

Around the web

Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it — The Verge

President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year, writes Lauren Feiner.
IT

IBM to acquire HashiCorp for $6.4B

IBM and HashiCorp have entered into an agreement for IBM to acquire HashiCorp, a provider of infrastructure and security management products, for $6.4 billion.
AI

OpenAI introduces new enterprise features

OpenAI announced new features aimed at enterprise users on Tuesday, at the wake of Meta's recent LLama 3 announcement.
Around the web

Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry — CNBC

Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter, writes Ashley Capoot.
Industry

Square expands offline payments globally

Payment processing company Square has announced the expansion of its offline payments feature to all hardware devices and countries.