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Economics
Apple Gets to $1 Trillion – Trafficking in Goods They’ve Stolen
by Seton Motley August 8, 2018The world last week was rightly agog when Tech uber-giant Apple became the first company on the planet ever to top a $1 trillion market cap.
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Apple Sues Qualcomm Over Patent Royalties: “Apple also wants back some of the billions of dollars it claims it was overcharged in ‘Qualcomm’s illegal scheme’ to control the market for mobile phone chips.”
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Sophia Cope: Apple vs. The Federal Government
by Jesse Hathaway March 1, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Sophia Cope about the Federal District Court for the District of Central California’s recent demand that Apple, the $700 billion tech company producing consumer products like the iPhone and iPad, assist the Federal Bureau of Investigations with their investigation into the December 2, 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack by devising a way to unlock the deceased terrorist’s iPhone without a password.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedLibertyPodcast
In The Tank Podcast (ep27): James Madison Institute, Regressive Regulations, and the Apple Decryption Debate
by Donald Kendal February 26, 2016Hosts Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft continue to explore the world of think tanks in episode #27 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, roundtable discussions, stories, and light-hearted segments on a variety of topics on the latest news. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the James Madison Institute, the Mercatus Center, the John Locke Foundation, the American Energy Alliance, and Reason.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Apple’s New Security Policy Is Great News for iPhone, iPad Users
by S.T. Karnick September 19, 2014Apple Corp. last night announced that it is implementing a new security protocol that will make it impossible for the firm to turn over users’ personal information to government agencies, or anyone else. This is great news for users of Apple products, and one hopes that the other major phone and tablet operating system providers—notably, Google and Microsoft—will quickly follow suit.
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EconomicsFeaturedInternet/TelecomLiberty
The Rise of Uber: An Emerging Dynamic Economy and its Discontents
by Alexander Klemp July 23, 2013The growing use of Uber to hail a cab is economic dynamism at its finest: an unregulated Internet service upending an old, established service with consumers reaping the rewards.
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If the states are laboratories of democracy, then what does that make our cities? Showcases of the experiments’ results? If so, then we are in for a terrible time. One…
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Steve Jobs personified capitalism and free markets in as pure and beautiful a way as the world has seen in the modern generation of industrial giants. His pursuit of excellence…