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Category Archive for 'Political activism'

Betting on the environment

Al Gore joined his old friend John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins, Silicon Valley’s preeminent venture firm, as the firm moves beyond information technology and health-care investing into the fast-growing and increasingly competitive arena of “clean technology.”
Doerr, whose greatest hits include initial investments in Netscape, Amazon, and Google, will join the advisory board of Generation Investment […]

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In a very troubling development for freedom of speech and the future of “net neutrality”, the New York Times is reporting that Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program.
Verizon claims that they have the right to block “controversial […]

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