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A Guide to Diversity in Citizenship, Immigration, and National Origin in the Workplace?

HR Digest

These students also show a higher inclination towards STEM fields, with almost half of the international student population pursuing bachelor’s degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The Role of Safe Harbor Safe harbor provisions protect employers from liability or penalties if certain conditions are met.

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Is Copyright Enforcement Censorship?

Harvard Business Review

To stop all the downloading , Wayne's record label must issue takedowns to newalbumreleases and/or RapidShare, which are protected from liability by the DMCA (as long as they are following the safe harbor provisions), and only I and the million downloaders are liable.

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The Great Firewall of America

Harvard Business Review

If they don't, they lose their safe harbor provisions. Second, the technical way this is to be achieved is by tinkering with Domain Name Servers, the technology that translates " [link] " into the unique IP address where a server is stored. Except the remedy big content are proposing this time wouldn't just stop VCR technology.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. But the technologies that drove these coordination-related scale advantages are becoming increasingly cheaper and more pervasive. However, with the availability of cheaper more accessible information technologies, that's all changing.

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How the Apple/FBI Fight Risks the Whole U.S. Tech Industry

Harvard Business Review

But from an economic perspective, that cost is being born almost entirely by the one bright spot in the American economy: the technology sector. But underlying this revolution is something else, which is just as critical as the technology itself: trust. technology firms. technology firms? and the EU.

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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Officials are even reviewing the Safe Harbor agreement, which enables the transfer of personal data from the EU to companies in the U.S., Information & technology Innovation' A lawyer for an EU corporation told me, “When we work with U.S. We want to participate in U.S. markets, but we know we are exposing ourselves at home.”

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 A third of VC investments in Europe were focused on the UK in the first quarter of 2016, according to CBInsights. billion as compared to $4.4