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The Federal Communications Commission is going to set rules for the upcoming 700 MHz auctions tomorrow, a decision that could potentially alter the wireless landscape. The auction has resulted in a war of the words, with the Google Camp trading barbs with Verizon and AT&T. Cisco has weighed in with its two cents. Each side [...]

No matter what the FCC decides Tuesday in its rules for the 700 MHz spectrum auctions, the political deck remains heavily stacked in favor of communications incumbents. Just ask anyone playing the the independent VoIP or the peer-to-peer worlds, two areas of innovation that are under constant attack from the entrenched powers that be, hampering [...]

Jimmy Wales, the founder of not-for-profit Wikipedia and for-profit, San Mateo, Calif.-based Wikia is part of a growing number of people who are discomforted by the growing control Google has over search. And he is doing something about it. His company, Wikia, last week bought the distributed crawler Grub from LookSmart and plans to make [...]

Broadband is the best friend of those who use the Web2.0 to reinvent the boring, the old fashioned and the antiquated. That theory of ours has been proved by the early success of SpreadShirt and Threadless. And of late, we are seeing an increasing number of start-ups, Moo.com, for example, join the party.
One start-up [...]

Editor’s Note: You asked for a founders’ Reading List, and we’re building it. For our first installment of recommended titles, we turned to Found|READ contributor and best-selling author, Tim Ferriss, whose hip tome on personal and professional emancipation, The 4-Hour Workweek, is soaring up both the Wall Street Journal and New York Times business books […]

NowPublic, a Vancouver-based citizen journalism site has raised $10.6 million in Series A funding from Rho Ventures/Rho Canada, Brightspark, and the Working Opportunity Fund.

So first off, that’s a boatload of cash in the web news business and we’re not saying it’s justified. However, NowPublic is clearly attracting contributors (119,000 of them in 140 countries), money […]