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<title>Apple US government lobbying efforts far behind Google, MS</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/10/apple.11th.place.behind.hp.oracle.intel.others/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/capitalhill-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Politico reports that Apple has spent only $500,000 on federal lobbying and associated governmental programs thus far in 2012. By contrast, political action committees (PAC) formed by Google have dropped $5 million, and a separate Microsoft PAC has doled out $1.8 million in the same time period. Sources within Washington suggest that Apple will have a rocky road with DC lawmakers unless they start...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 06:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple lobbying costs drop in Q3, but rise year-over-year</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1108/applelogo-plastictop.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has spent around $1.8 million on lobbying the federal government through the third quarter of 2011, figures filed with the U.S. House of Representatives' clerk's office show. While third-quarter spending, at $460,000, was down significantly (42 percent) from the $790,000 it spent in the second quarter, it is up 35 percent from the year-ago third quarter of 2010....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FCC commissioner to work for Comcast after approving merger</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/11/meredith.baker.to.lobby.for.comcast.nbc/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1104/comcastcablemodem-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Comcast has announced that it has hired Meredith Attwell Baker, an FCC Commissioner. The Republican Commissioner will join the cable provider as Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for NBC Universal, a leadership position in the company's Washington DC-based lobbying division. The move has raised eyebrows, considering the Commissioners recent role in approving Comcast's acquisition of NBC ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 01:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple budgets $450K for lobbying govt in Q2</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/08/15/apple.spends.to.lobby/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0808/applelogo-black.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[During the second quarter of 2008, Apple reportedly spend $450,000 on lobbying within the federal government, under a broad spectrum of interests in energy conservation, education, and intellectual property rights. Forbes writes that a disclosure form ñ which Apple filed July 21st ñ shows Apple dividing the aforementioned figure among patent reforms, consumer product safety, No Child Left Behind, ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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