Streaming Pirates May Suffer An Additional COVID-19 Symptom
The new COVID-19 stimulus bill presented in Congress this week has an added lump of Christmas coal awaiting anyone engaged in commercially pirating copyrighted video via for-profit streaming services. Congress slapped an anti-piracy streaming proposal onto the much-needed and highly debated new COVID-19 stimulus measure…
Foxconn Electronics Plant Gets Nixed On Tax Credits For 2019
The Foxconn Technology Group’s Wisconsin manufacturing campus, once proposed as the site of a massive new television production factory, will not be receiving any state tax credits for work done in 2019, according to reports citing a decision by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. The…
Tech Industry Celebrates SCOTUS Decision On DACA Dreamers
The Supreme Court’s controversial ruling Thursday that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients can continue to live and work in the United States without deportation was roundly celebrated by organizations from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The…
Trump’s Tariffs To Tax TVs
U.S. President Donald Trump stepped up his pressure on Chinese trade negotiators Monday by announcing a proposed escalation of tariffs on an additional $300 billion worth of Chinese imports, which this time encompasses a greater list of consumer electronics products including China-made televisions sets. The…
Trump Tariff Exemptions Save Jobs Of Element TV Workers
The Trump administration this week gave a reprieve to the jobs of some 126 South Carolina TV factory workers by making an exemption for certain LCD TV component parts from a list of tariffs issued last July. According to a report Tuesday by The Greenville News,…
Element Plans To Halt U.S. TV Production As Tariffs On Parts Hit Home
Element, which has the distinction as one of the last remaining U.S. television manufacturers, is planning to end production at its factory in Winnsboro, South Carolina in October, due to tariffs on component TV parts sent from China. Element issued a statement on its Facebook…
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