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Indianapolis council backs $20M for preschool plan

2014-12-02 14:40:31| Biotech - Topix.net

The Indianapolis City-County Council has approved directing $20 million toward a preschool program that the city's mayor says is aimed at attacking the root causes of crime. The council voted 19-8 Monday night to support the five-year plan to provide preschool scholarships to low-income families.

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AT&T backs off threat to halt its fiber rollout

2014-12-01 22:17:54| Telecom - Topix.net

AT&T now says it will continue its already-announced fiber optic network expansion to 100 cities, backtracking on comments by AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson after President Obama voiced support for net neutrality last month. The move brought a strong retort from critics who say the carrier's fiber optic plans are mostly bogus and were designed as a competitive play against the ongoing Google Fiber rollout.

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EU parliament backs resolution on Google break-up

2014-11-27 14:13:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The European Parliament has called for the EU to consider forcing Google to separate its search engine from its other business activities. In a resolution passed by 384 votes for versus 174 against, the MEPs said "unbundling" the search activities from Google's other commercial activities should be considered in the long term, if the European Commission is unable to resolve satisfactorily its current competition investigation into Google's search practices. The EC has been under pressure from the media and publishing sectors to ensure that Google does not give priority to its own content services in its search engine results and that other online information providers have equal access to marketing over Google. The company has offered a number of changes to its practices to avoid fines for abuse of its dominant position, but the EC has been unable to reach a market consensus on whether this is enough. The parliamentary resolution welcomed the new Commission's pledge to investigate further the search engine practices. The non-binding resolution underlined that "the online search market is of particular importance in ensuring competitive conditions within the digital single market" in the EU, and if the EC cannot ensure competition rules are respected, it should "consider proposals with the aim of unbundling search engines from other commercial services" in the long run.

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