“Doppelganger Domain” Names Could be Stealing Your E-mails
Are your e-mails going astray? Do customers claim they have sent an e-mail that you didn’t receive or can’t find
It could be that they were never sent or it could be that a “doppelganger domain” name has been set up to steal e-mails that are supposed to be going to you or other employees of your business. Read More ›
Categories: Domain Name Registration
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Top-Level Domain Names: Protect Your Rights
In 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) removed most restrictions on the names of generic top-level domains. A top-level domain name is the letters after the “dot” in a website address. The most common top-level domains are “.com” and “.org”. Internet domains can now be any phrase and contain non-Latin characters (for example, Chinese, Arabic, etc.). Read More ›
Categories: Domain Name Registration, Intellectual Property
Are Large High-Tech Companies Shirking Tax Responsibilities? A Recent Study Suggests Just That
A recent report, "Tech Untaxed," published by The Greenlining Institute, shows that some of the nation's largest high-tech companies (Apple, Microsoft, and Google, to name a few) are paying significantly lower effective tax rates even as their yearly profits rise. Read More ›
Categories: E-Commerce, Tax
Crowdfunding Flies Through Congress
It caught most observers by surprise, but the Jobs Act, which includes a Title authorizing crowdfunding, passed the U.S. Senate on March 22. The bill replaced the House's provisions relating to crowdfunding with the Senate's more restrictive version. The House passed the Senate's version of the Jobs Act on March 27 and President Obama signed it on April 5. Read More ›
Categories: Crowdfunding, Venture Capital/Funding
Michigan Sales Tax on Internet Retailers...Possibly
The applicability of sales tax in Internet transactions is a contentious issue in the state tax arena. Many Internet retailers do not collect sales tax on their sales unless they have a physical presence in a state. As a result, states have alleged that they are losing millions in tax dollars and brick-and-mortar retailers are operating at competitive disadvantages to their online competitors that do not impose sales tax. Although states have encountered Constitutional difficulties in taxing out-of-state retailers, the pendulum may be swinging in favor of the states. Read More ›
Categories: E-Commerce, Tax
U.S. Senate Begins to Move on Crowdfunding
On Tuesday, March 6, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing on Spurring Job Growth Through Capital Formation While Protecting Investors, Part II. There is a stated intent to take up the capital formation bills in the near future. Crowdfunding is one of several areas being considered to improve the capital formation climate. Read More ›
Categories: Crowdfunding, Venture Capital/Funding
U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Warrantless GPS Tracking
Let's revisit a previous posting regarding the scope of the Fourth Amendment in the digital era.
Last year, the Department of Justice requested the U.S. Supreme Court to approve the warrantless and covert attachment by law enforcement of a GPS tracking device to an individual's vehicle. The DOJ’s request arose from a U.S. Court of Appeals decision, which vacated the life sentence of a convicted drug dealer. In that case, the Court of Appeals held that law enforcement violated the individual’s Fourth Amendment rights by secretly attaching a GPS tracking device to the individual’s vehicle without a warrant. Read More ›
Categories: Privacy
Make Sure you Know Who's Talking about Your Company!
In the age of instant access to online information, it is essential for a business to know what others are saying about it - both good and bad. For example, a physician will want to confirm the glowing review of a recent article is properly acknowledged on the Internet but also that a negative patient comment is immediately refuted or deleted. Read More ›
Categories: News
Crowdfunding May Be Stalled in U.S. Senate
After the U.S. House of Representatives passed a crowdfunding bill in November, it appears that the crowdfunding concept has stalled in the U.S. Senate. Two alternative bills have been introduced in the Senate, both of which would create greater regulatory roadblocks than the House bill, substantially limiting the ability of most start-up and seed stage companies to utilize crowdfunding to raise capital. It has been reported that at the committee hearings in December, most of the testimony focused on concerns about the potential for fraud, rather than the importance of access to capital and the need for job creation. So far in January, no further action has been taken by the Senate on the crowdfunding bills.
Categories: Crowdfunding, Venture Capital/Funding
Into the Breach . . .
Smartphone usage has skyrocketed in the past few years. Physicians are no exception to the trend - with more than 81% of physicians using smartphones. Disturbingly, the number of health data breaches has risen in tandem with increased smartphone usage, and most experts agree that the increase is no coincidence.
Recent reports have indicated that 96% of all health care organizations have experienced at least one data breach during the past two years. Although the report did not detail the number of data breaches attributable to mobile devices, there is agreement that the widespread use of mobile devices is putting patient data at risk. Read More ›
Categories: HIPAA
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