{"id":567426,"date":"2010-05-17T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5541197"},"modified":"2010-05-17T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T02:40:00","slug":"how-much-tech-companies-are-spending-on-lobbying-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/567426","title":{"rendered":"How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Lobbying [Data]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--  div style=\"background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;\"><a title=\"Click here to read How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Lobbying\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/data\/\" style=\"background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;\"><span style=\"color: white;\" class=\"hash\">#<\/span><span style=\"color: white;\">data<\/span><\/a><\/div -->\n<div><a title=\"Click here to read How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Lobbying\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5541197\/how-much-tech-companies-are-spending-on-lobbying\" class=\"pp_image\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;\" height=\"120\" width=\"160\" title=\"Click here to read How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Lobbying\" alt=\"Click here to read How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Lobbying\" src=\"http:\/\/cache-04.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/05\/160x120_chart-of-the-day-lobbying-2009.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tYikes. While the amounts are only tiny fractions of their revenues, major tech companies are spending quite a bit of money on lobbying. Hell, apparently &#8220;Google&#8217;s lobbying is half what it spends on advertising.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-lobbying-spending-for-tech-companies-2010-5\">BI<\/a>]\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5541197\/how-much-tech-companies-are-spending-on-lobbying\" title=\"Click here to read more about How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Lobbying [Data]\">More&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=924e4612b76756cf9fa55939fd23fba5&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=924e4612b76756cf9fa55939fd23fba5&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.triggit.com\/px?u=pheedo&#038;rtv=TechCons&#038;rtv=p28252&#038;rtv=f5726\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28252.rss.TechCons.5726,cat.TechCons.rss\"\/><br clear=\"all\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?kw=\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=924e4612b76756cf9fa55939fd23fba5&#038;p=64&#038;kw=Google'>Google<\/a> &#8211; <a href='http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=924e4612b76756cf9fa55939fd23fba5&#038;p=64&#038;kw=Searching'>Searching<\/a> &#8211; <a href='http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=924e4612b76756cf9fa55939fd23fba5&#038;p=64&#038;kw=Search+Engines'>Search Engines<\/a> &#8211; <a href='http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=924e4612b76756cf9fa55939fd23fba5&#038;p=64&#038;kw=Lobbying'>Lobbying<\/a> &#8211; <a href='http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=924e4612b76756cf9fa55939fd23fba5&#038;p=64&#038;kw=Business'>Business<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=gmbkFW4KqKc:uPX0dKlDqrw:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=gmbkFW4KqKc:uPX0dKlDqrw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=gmbkFW4KqKc:uPX0dKlDqrw:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=gmbkFW4KqKc:uPX0dKlDqrw:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=gmbkFW4KqKc:uPX0dKlDqrw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=gmbkFW4KqKc:uPX0dKlDqrw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/gmbkFW4KqKc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes. While the amounts are only tiny fractions of their revenues, major tech companies are spending quite a bit of money on lobbying. Hell, apparently &#8220;Google&#8217;s lobbying is half what it spends on advertising.&#8221; [BI] More&nbsp;&raquo; Google &#8211; Searching &#8211; Search Engines &#8211; Lobbying &#8211; Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}