Representative Bennie Thompson (MS-02) and Tod Cohen, V.P. and Deputy General Counsel, eBay Inc. Government Relations, take a closer look at eBay Inc.'s mobile applications

Last week, Illinois based think tank, Heartland Institute, published a blog explaining the importance of passing the Permanent Internet tax Freedom Act (PITFA) before the November 1^st deadline. PITFA is a bill drafted by Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, that would permanently extend the moratorium on Internet access taxes. Since the law was first passed in 1998, the moratorium has helped to promote innovation and the Internet by creating a moratorium on state and local taxation of Internet access and on discriminatory tax

Earlier this week, Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) of the Senate Judiciary Committee convened a field hearing in his home state of Vermont to examine the consequences of deviating from the net-neutrality doctrine.

Local small business owner, Tom Baxter of Pine, Pennsylvania, sent a letter to the editor of The Tribune-Review expressing his frustration with the “e-fairness” bill currently pending in Congress.  As a tech-enabled small business owner, Baxter explained that this bill is anything but fair.