FCC: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

After more than a decade of debate and a record-setting proceeding that attracted nearly 4 million public comments, the time to settle the Net Neutrality question has arrived. This week, I will circulate to the members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed new rules to preserve the internet as an open platform for innovation and free expression. This proposal is rooted in long-standing regulatory principles, marketplace experience, and public input received over the last several months.

Read More (Via Wired)

An Invisible Workforce: Home Care Workers Are Highly Valued but Overworked and Underpaid

Latin Post recently spoke to Ai-jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and lead organizer and founder of Domestic Workers United, an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers and elderly caregivers in New York. And Ai-jen Poo is also the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Award and organizer of the Caring Across Generations summit.


Read More

Shareholders Are Not Happy With Oracle’s New Co-CEO Pay

“Five bigwig institutional shareholders want to force Oracle to make radical changes to the way it pays it top three executives: executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison and co-CEOs Safra Catz and Mark Hurd.

They are concerned that Oracle’s board of directors isn’t independent enough from management and ‘insufficient board accountability and poorly designed compensation programs create significant risks for shareholders.’

Of Oracle’s 11 directors, three of them still earn their living at Oracle (Ellison, Catz, and Hurd), and one of them is the company’s former CFO and chairman…”

Read More