Why Apple believes keeping billions in cash overseas is fair, and why Congress largely disagrees

"I am not an unfair person," Apple CEO Tim Cook told lawmakers yesterday. "Apple is not an unfair company."

The White House releases its first open source app on Github

Don't worry, hell has not frozen over. But the White House is very definitely not doing business -- or government, rather -- as usual. The U.S. government has released a repository of open source code for allowing citizens to create and vote on petitions, the same functionality that drives WhiteHouse.gov.

America, keep rewarding your dissidents

Ever since I became an academic six years ago, I have been one of the biggest critics of U.S. competitiveness policies. I documented, for example, that we had our data wrong when it came to India and China’s advantages in …

How soon will Chinese developers outpace their U.S. counterparts?

Currently, U.S.-based developers outscore their competitors in China when tested on common programming languages. However, U.S. developers lag behind in math and logic.

A new study from Gild, a service for creating and comparing developers’ skill profiles, asserts that Chinese …