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The Federal Reserve is taking on the digital divide
A Q&A with Jeremy Hegle, a senior community development adviser for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The Federal Reserve Bank is trying convince businesses that the digital divide is their problem, too. He said:
What role should governments play in regulating speech online? (Marketplace)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 08:46Streaming companies are spending big on content talent (Marketplace)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 08/19/2018 - 14:26Big Tech is a nation-state with a constitutional crisis (Marketplace)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 20:12Why mergers are as complicated as relationships (Marketplace)
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The promise and reality of Google Fiber
In the Kansas City region, Austin (TX), and Provo (UT), Google Fiber did something almost too good to be true. It handed out free internet (for up to seven years) to anyone willing to pay a one-time installation fee of $300. Sure, the gratis package was one-200th the speed of Google Fiber’s drool-inducing gigabit plan. But free is free. By the time Google Fiber put out its shingle in Atlanta, it had dropped the on-the-house option in favor of a $50 (and much faster) monthly plan.