More disruption to the business model of television.  Check out this quote:

“Meanwhile, the paid TV industry has been reeling from the impact of subscribers defecting in favor of piecing together their own viewing options with streaming services and devices like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV and Roku.  Last year alone, an estimated 687,000 cable subscribers canceled their accounts, according to Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson, the eponymous Wall Street veterans at MoffettNathanson research firm in Manhattan.  All of 2013, they said in a report last year, amounted to the worst 12-month stretch in the paid television industry they had ever seen.”

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2014/04/comcast_launches_streaming_dvr_service_in_nj.html

… according to a Forbes article from 2013:

http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2013/disruptors/index.html

… and by ‘here’ we mean Canada.”

Great article about what’s at stake for the cable companies if the public pushes for unbundling cable channels.

http://consumerist.com/2013/10/15/a-la-carte-cable-is-here-and-by-here-we-mean-canada/

… and this article features a quote from our own Professor Mark McKenna!

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/another-case-between-apple-samsung-heads-court

Everyone’s going to be watching this case — further to my point that the Supreme Court has been wading into patent law with increasing frequency; a trend I find interesting.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/us-usa-court-ip-idUSBREA2U05X20140331

I thought you all might appreciate this story about Votizen, which describes the social media efforts to get the Startup Visa Act drafted and passed.  It’s a couple of years old (so we know the Act has stalled), but the story is interesting nevertheless.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/20/consumer-social-wave-political-expression/

Article by Reason magazine editor Nick Gillespie on the conflict between government regulation that protects existing businesses, and innovation.

http://time.com/31828/the-government-is-a-hitman-uber-tesla-and-airbnb-are-in-its-crosshairs/

A quick article from the Washington Post on why the 1986 immigration overhaul didn’t accomplish what it was intended to do:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/30/in-1986-congress-tried-to-solve-immigration-why-didnt-it-work/

What are the assurances in current proposals that they will be more successful at providing a path to legal status, accommodating employer demand (without greasing the wheels for exploitation), and enforcing the border (which is as much a national security issue at this point as an economic one)?

… on the legislative holdup for the Startup Visa Act of 2013.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228226

Another article which explains at least part of the reason why U.S.-educated immigrants in the STEM fields are languishing in the public policy process.  Should legislative initiatives intended to make it easier for foreign-born, but U.S.-educated immigrant to get legal status be tied to other policy objectives? Why or why not?

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324880504578298150540138218