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Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash—Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser—was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad. Instead he threw Apple's weight behind HTML5, a competing open-source video format. He got what he wanted, posthumously: Last November, Adobe relented, promising to embrace HTML5.

Evgeny Morozov, a visiting scholar at Stanford University who examines the role of the Internet on political affairs, tweeted Monday: "How to preempt a 'Twitter Revolution': Saudi prince buys a $300 million 'strategic stake' in Twitter," in one of ...

"They had the guts to come forward to explain how hard it is to operate in the current immigration environment and to underscore the need to fix it," says Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a federation of businesses that back immigration ...

In "The Net Delusion," Evgeny Morozov, in a sassy and enlightening way, takes on the idea that the Internet and social media are going to march the world's people to democracy and peace. And for those that believe evil, when it occurs, is unfathomable, ...

But Tamar Jacoby of ImmigrationWorks USA, a national federation of small business owners, isn't holding her breath. "The Supreme Court has already ruled this year that it's okay for the states to play a role in work site enforcement," she said in an ...

... But there are doubters. “They use one hell-of-a complicated series of data manipulations (and keep in mind, this is coming from someone with a heavy background in advanced quantitative statistics),” said Sascha Meinrath, co-founder of MeasurementLab.net. ...

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Tamar Jacoby on a bill to ease visa restrictions on high-skilled immigrants.

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"We're getting the clear message that if the supercommittee reaches agreement on a package of spending and tax cuts, the TV band auctions will be part of that," said Michael Calabrese, director of a project by the New America Foundation, ...

"It allows us to try out the new system," said Maya MacGuineas, a budget expert. Mr. Hensarling on Sunday also talked up that possibility, which was advanced by a private panel headed by former congressional budget director Alice Rivlin and former ...

"For the first time since this process started, I'm thinking it's more likely than not that they come away with a deal," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a leading proponent of a large deficit deal. ...