August 2015

More audit transparency for investors makes a bitter proposal easier to swallow

Via The Conversation The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has recently announced a binding federal law that requires the disclosure of the name of the person who oversaw an audit of a company’s books. This is one of the most significant changes to auditing standards in the last 30 years and could have a […]

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Apple’s mobile ad blocking will hasten the death of online advertising

Apple is set to launch a new offensive in the ongoing battle against online advertising. The latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 9, will include ad-blocking capabilities for Safari, its mobile web browser. A study by Adobe and PageFair, a pro-advertising firm, has revealed that the widespread adoption of ad-blocking extensions in desktop

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Op Ed: Top American Legal Authority Says New Pentagon War Manual Reduces Us To Nazi Level

Francis Boyle, the world-renowned international law expert and professor at the University of Illinois at Champaign, has denounced the Pentagon’s recently released Law of War Manual (LOWM) as an affront to humanity. Boyle, who was the top student of Richard Baxter, the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Judge

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