Obama steps up defense of NSA snooping: ‘Freedom vs. security is a false choice’
President Obama took to the Charlie Rose show to defend the NSA's surveillance practices, which he says are both transparent and legal.
President Obama took to the Charlie Rose show to defend the NSA's surveillance practices, which he says are both transparent and legal.
Hoping to help fix the patent system, President Obama is proposing new legislative recommendations that could make life much tougher for patent trolls.
"BC has had legalized crowdfunding for a decade," super-angel Mike Volker said last night at the Vancouver Enterprise Forum event on crowdfunding. "It's the only place in North America, and there are no restrictions, no limits."
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While on the phone congratulating China's new president Xi Jinping on his appointment, President Obama reportedly slipped in some conversation around cyber security and intellectual property theft.
At a press conference today, Obama may have proved that, while he can hire a bunch of Star Wars fanboys to help run the country, he himself is not one.
Video games could hold great mental-health benefits, but the leader of the House of Representatives' Republican majority would rather not know that.
During his first "Fireside Hangout" on YouTube, President Barack Obama called for education, immigration, and patent reform to support the tech scene, not to mention the American economy.
While congress has yet to reach any sort of lasting solution regarding the nations growing cyber security problems, President Barack Obama has decidedly taken the first big step in an executive order signed earlier today.
President Barack Obama's state of the union address focused on innovation, jobs, education, health-care ... and green technology.
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Much like its response to the public petition to build a Death Star, the latest video uploaded to the official White House YouTube channel once again proves that presidential administration is at least somewhat in tune (or perhaps in step?) with today's popular culture.
President Obama will take to Google+ for a Hangout two days after the State of the Union address to answer questions and talk about his second term.
The White House has raised its requirements to make it more difficult to get a response on user-generated petitions today.
Obama announced numerous actions the executive branch of government will take to combat gun violence.
Perhaps it was the most re-tweeted tweet in history. Or the photo with the most Facebook likes ever. Most likely, it's a history of consistently engaging via social media.
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President Barack Obama had a little fun today on Twitter despite spending most of his time talking about serious topics such as the looming fiscal cliff and middle-class tax cuts.
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President Barack Obama will hold a "town hall" meeting at 2pm Eastern on Twitter to respond to a number of questions posed to him on the social network about middle class tax cuts.