White House to ... Facebook: according to information from the New York Times, Robert Gibbs, the former spokesman for Barack Obama, is in discussion with the social network Facebook, which seeks to recruit him. Responsible for relations with the press during the 2008 campaign, Mr. Gibbs was naturally became the chief of White House press after the victory of Barack Obama.
A post he left, two months ago to work on the 2012 campaign of President of the United States. But Facebook also provides for a charge year 2012: the company should go public, and his communication is vital because the social network is increasingly criticized for its policy of respect for privacy or business model.
But if the professional qualities of Robert Gibbs are well established, Facebook would just as eager to hire this connoisseur of arcane Democratic Party when the Congress and the White House plan to further regulate the secondary market for shares, a measure aimed primarily Facebook. The Senate Democrats are also interested in more practical social network for managing personal information.
Also according to the New York Times, Mr. Gibbs had also been approached by other companies in the sector of new technologies. Conversely, the name of Eric Schmidt, who is leaving April 4 as CEO of Google, is mentioned in Washington as a possible candidate for secretary of commerce. Jeffrey Kindler, the former CEO of Pfizer, is also part of the contenders for the post, as the president of the computer security company Symantec and the Director of the Federal Communication Commission, the telecommunications regulator.
The choice of a minister from the technology sector would be the latest in a long series of signals sent by the Obama administration to Silicon Valley. In February, Barack Obama met for dinner a little special some of the most influential patrons of the Web: Larry Ellison (Oracle), Eric Schmidt, Steve Jobs (Apple), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder), or Carol Bartz (Yahoo).
Officially, the President had invited the representatives of Silicon Valley to discuss his plans for small businesses and higher education. But he also detailed his project to double in five years the exports of the United States, a key objective of the program whose liability accruing to the future Minister of Commerce.
While the campaign of 2012 approached, Barack Obama does not forget that Silicon Valley is an important source of funding. In 2008, he was the preferred candidate from the world of start-ups. Patterns like Eric Schmidt and Bill Gates (Microsoft) had donated to Democratic candidate personally.
TAX ISSUES The winks supported Obama administration in the world of new technologies, however, do not please everyone. Several states have already begun targeting of modern businesses and growing, but tax policy is questionable. States such as Texas, yet unwilling to tax the businesses and have asked Amazon to pay large arrears of VAT.
What the giant online sales has declined to do so, preferring to relocate its shipping center in an employment blackmail barely hidden. In San Francisco, Twitter has finally obtained an exemption from social charges after threatening to move its head office in the suburbs. Importantly, consumer associations, very critical of most of the industry giants, brandishing the threat of electoral sanction but also diplomatic.
Consumer Watchdog, an influential consumer organization highly critical of practices in general and Google's Eric Schmidt in particular, has sent an open letter to Obama asking him not to appoint Mr. Schmidt Department of Commerce. "Appoint Mr. Schmidt to the position would send a very negative signal to the world about our trade policy.
Exporting technology is not the same thing to exploit the personal data of consumers, "considers the association, which recalls that the Department of Commerce, which oversees policy for the protection of privacy. Choose Eric Schmidt for this position "would be like Bernie Madoff appoint the head of the Securities Exchange Commission [the stock market watchdog]," said Consumer Watchdog. 
A post he left, two months ago to work on the 2012 campaign of President of the United States. But Facebook also provides for a charge year 2012: the company should go public, and his communication is vital because the social network is increasingly criticized for its policy of respect for privacy or business model.
But if the professional qualities of Robert Gibbs are well established, Facebook would just as eager to hire this connoisseur of arcane Democratic Party when the Congress and the White House plan to further regulate the secondary market for shares, a measure aimed primarily Facebook. The Senate Democrats are also interested in more practical social network for managing personal information.
Also according to the New York Times, Mr. Gibbs had also been approached by other companies in the sector of new technologies. Conversely, the name of Eric Schmidt, who is leaving April 4 as CEO of Google, is mentioned in Washington as a possible candidate for secretary of commerce. Jeffrey Kindler, the former CEO of Pfizer, is also part of the contenders for the post, as the president of the computer security company Symantec and the Director of the Federal Communication Commission, the telecommunications regulator.
The choice of a minister from the technology sector would be the latest in a long series of signals sent by the Obama administration to Silicon Valley. In February, Barack Obama met for dinner a little special some of the most influential patrons of the Web: Larry Ellison (Oracle), Eric Schmidt, Steve Jobs (Apple), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder), or Carol Bartz (Yahoo).
Officially, the President had invited the representatives of Silicon Valley to discuss his plans for small businesses and higher education. But he also detailed his project to double in five years the exports of the United States, a key objective of the program whose liability accruing to the future Minister of Commerce.
While the campaign of 2012 approached, Barack Obama does not forget that Silicon Valley is an important source of funding. In 2008, he was the preferred candidate from the world of start-ups. Patterns like Eric Schmidt and Bill Gates (Microsoft) had donated to Democratic candidate personally.
TAX ISSUES The winks supported Obama administration in the world of new technologies, however, do not please everyone. Several states have already begun targeting of modern businesses and growing, but tax policy is questionable. States such as Texas, yet unwilling to tax the businesses and have asked Amazon to pay large arrears of VAT.
What the giant online sales has declined to do so, preferring to relocate its shipping center in an employment blackmail barely hidden. In San Francisco, Twitter has finally obtained an exemption from social charges after threatening to move its head office in the suburbs. Importantly, consumer associations, very critical of most of the industry giants, brandishing the threat of electoral sanction but also diplomatic.
Consumer Watchdog, an influential consumer organization highly critical of practices in general and Google's Eric Schmidt in particular, has sent an open letter to Obama asking him not to appoint Mr. Schmidt Department of Commerce. "Appoint Mr. Schmidt to the position would send a very negative signal to the world about our trade policy.
Exporting technology is not the same thing to exploit the personal data of consumers, "considers the association, which recalls that the Department of Commerce, which oversees policy for the protection of privacy. Choose Eric Schmidt for this position "would be like Bernie Madoff appoint the head of the Securities Exchange Commission [the stock market watchdog]," said Consumer Watchdog.
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