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| Jul 28, 2025 | MapLight raises $373M to plot phase 2 journey for would-be rival to BMS' Cobenfy | MapLight Therapeutics has raised a $372.5 million series D round, clearing the biotech to chart a course through phase 2 for its would-be challenger to Bristol Myers Squibb’s schizophrenia treatment Cobenfy.
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| Oct 30, 2023 | MapLight Therapeutics Closes $225M Series C |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, MapLight Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company announced the closing of an oversubscribed $225 million Series C financing led by Novo Holdings.
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| Sep 7, 2021 | Big Tech Workers Overwhelmingly Back Gov. Newsom Ahead of CA Recall Vote | The tech elite is split over who should lead California, as leaders like Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison duke it out with their checkbooks ahead of the heated recall election. But it's a different story ... |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Social media platforms must protect democracy, even from the president | Margaret Sessa-Hawkins Contributor
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| Apr 11, 2020 | Opinion: Evan Ravitz: Polis should include initiatives and referenda in online petition move | By Evan Ravitz
Gov. Jared Polis took a small step towards the future on March 16 so political candidates can use coronavirus-free “electronic means” of signing and notarizing their nomination petitions, among other things, in his Executive ... |
| Apr 10, 2019 | For true transparency around political advertising, US tech companies must collaborate | Ann M. Ravel Contributor
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Ann M. Ravel is the Digital Deception Project Director at MapLight and previously served as chair of the Federal Election Commission.
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| Jul 19, 2017 | AT&T Tricked Its Customers Into Opposing Net Neutrality | As most of you probably noticed, last week saw a massive, online protest against FCC boss Ajit Pai’s plan to completely ignore consumer welfare and gut popular net neutrality protections. Giant ISPs like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon respon... |
| Jul 17, 2017 | How IT Can Save Our Healthcare System | The health care debate continues to rage in Senate, the media, and in the public discourse. Call it Obamacare, Trumpcare, AHCA, ACA, Better Care Reconciliation Act – the current law, and the current proposals in Congress to change it – all ... |
| Jul 12, 2017 | Silicon Valley wants you to stop the FCC from ruining the internet | Silicon Valley’s finest hour in politics came in 2014 when leading tech companies launched a monthslong offensive that pushed the Federal Communications Commission to set firm rules preserving net neutrality, the principle that internet pro... |
| Jul 11, 2017 | AT&T Pretends To Love Net Neutrality, Joins Tomorrow's Protest With A Straight Face | You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger enemy of net neutrality than the fine folks at AT&T. The company has a history of all manner of anti-competitive assaults on the open and competitive internet, from blocking customer access to Appl... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | Apple Changes Tune, will have 400 Display Repair Machines in Third Party Establishments by Year's End
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Search | In February Patently Apple posted a report titled "Apple Set to Fight 'Right to Repair' Legislation in Nebraska.' Apple was fighting new 'Right to Repair' legislation that would require them and other electronics manufacturers to sell ... |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Federal Election Commission Member Quits, Says Agency Refuses To Address Campaign Finance Violations | “Every vote counts.” |
| Jan 12, 2017 | Cory Booker gets heat for opposing drug imports from Canada | Cory Booker, the New Jersey Senator assumed to be angling for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, found himself in trouble with progressives Thursday after he voted against a measure to allow prescription drugs to be imported from ... |
| Nov 12, 2016 | Where are all those plastic bags? California voters decided to get rid of them | As a caregiver, Sadie Hodge frequently buys groceries for her elderly and immobile patients.
But Hodge got a surprise Friday morning at the checkout line at a Compton Food 4 Less — a 10-cent-per-bag fee that went into effect after voters na... |
| Aug 19, 2014 | Defense Contractors' Funds Fuel Vote To Keep Dept. Of Defense's Police Militarization Program Funded | Color me unamazed. Politicians who are in favor of the government’s 1033 program — which distributes excess military gear and weapons to police departments engaged in our country’s two favorite “wars” (v. Terror, v. Drugs) — received a lot ... |
| May 30, 2014 | House Republican Efforts To Curb FCC Authority Mirror Cable Industry Lobbying | A bill introduced to the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening by Rep. Bob Latta would “limit” the FCC’s ability to regulate the telecom industry by prohibiting it from classifying broadband as a public utility under Title II of the... |
| May 20, 2014 | Congressional Reps Signing Sympathy-For-The-Cable-Industry Letter Received More Than Twice As Much Funding From Cable Lobbyists | As the ongoing net neutrality/internet fast lane issue continues to be debated by the FCC and many other interested parties, it’s always helpful to know where your representatives stand on issues related to this battle. |
| Apr 10, 2014 | Comcast PAC gave money to every senator examining Time Warner Cable merger | Sen. Al Franken on the campaign trail.
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| Mar 11, 2014 | Comcast: Throwing Money At Congress To Approve Our Merger Is Ok Because Congress Represents The People! | Comcast is using a variety of sophisticated lobbying tricks to get the company’s proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable approved, including using minority groups and an endless roster of think tankers to parrot merger support... |
| Feb 20, 2014 | Comcast Mega-Corp Shoveling Money At FCC Subcommittee | For a long time, people have argued over whether or not corporate lobbying was legalized bribery or protected speech. It’s a fascinating argument to me, personally, mostly because I don’t understand why we’re arguing over such a silly quest... |
| Jan 17, 2014 | Major Political Donors Have Access to TPP Documents. Everyone Else? Not So Much | The good folks over at MapLight have taken a look at the members of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (ITAC-15). As we’ve discussed in the past ITAC 15 is a committee of high powered corporate representat... |
| Nov 13, 2013 | Dianne Feinstein Receives Three Times More Cash From Intelligence Contractors Than Patrick Leahy | While there are many bills that have been introduced in Congress in response to the revelations about the NSA (thank you, Ed Snowden), there really are only two that matter right now in terms of actually having a chance of moving forward. O... |
| Oct 4, 2013 | Medical device tax: Anti-tax pols pulled in $40M from donors | Politicians who’ve signed on to various bids to repeal the 2.3% sales tax on medical devices that’s taken center stage in the shutdown battle pulled in nearly $40 million from donors who oppose the levy, according to an analysis from MapLig... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | All About The Money: Reps Who Voted For NSA Surveillance Received 2X As Much Money From Defense Industry | For many years now, we’ve pointed out that so much of what drives the fear-mongering about the “intelligence-industrial complex” is pretty simple: money. As in lots and lots of money. All of these intelligence programs require both staffing... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Somewhere Everywhere, Big Brother Is Smiling: Congress Sells Your Privacy For A Cool $84 Million | In case you were wondering why so many Democrats switched sides during the most recent CISPA vote, the answer is exactly what you think it is: $$$. And lots of it. Last year’s CISPA vote only managed to secure 40 Democrat supporters. This t... |
| Mar 23, 2013 | Boneheaded congressman brags about getting money for supporting CISPA | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Mar 23, 2013 | Boneheaded congressman brags about getting money for supporting CISPA | As a member of congress, it’s one thing to support a bad piece of tech policy because you don’t fully understand the Internet but it’s quite another when you brag about all the money you’re making on the side from that position.
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| Mar 22, 2013 | CISPA Sponsor Tweets, Then Deletes, About How Much More Lobbying Dollars Have Come From Pro-CISPA Groups | Ah, transparency. The Sunlight Foundation put together Politwoops last year to highlight tweets that elected officials deleted. Mostly it’s innocuous stuff, but sometimes some real gems come through. For example, the account of Rep. Mike Ro... |
| Mar 14, 2013 | How Much Does It Cost To Win Election To Congress? | A year ago, we wrote about a fantastic episode of the radio program This American Life, which was all about lobbying. One part of it revealed just how much time our elected officials in Congress spend fundraising, and the numbers were somew... |
| Jan 9, 2012 | As Congress Resumes Discussing SOPA And PIPA, Show Your Opposition With #BlackoutSOPA | It’s 2012, and the uncorruptible and brilliant technical minds in Congress are back from vacation and once again working to pass two bills that would rewrite (and most likely ruin) how our internet works in the name of protecting copyright ... |
| Dec 19, 2011 | Here’s what Hollywood and Silicon Valley are spending on SOPA | Whether you support or oppose it, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is costing a fortune — more than $2.5 million so far.
Reported contributions to the congressional sponsors of SOPA have been pouring into Washington from the West Coast.
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| Feb 18, 2011 | President Obama dines with the Silicon Valley elite in Woodside | President Barack Obama came to Silicon Valley today to dine with the the region’s technology leaders to talk about how to create more jobs and improve education.
The crowd reportedly included Steve Jobs, the Apple chief executive, who made ... |
| Sep 29, 2008 | Cause or coincidence? Politicians who supported bailout got more money from banking interest groups | updated
Politicians who supported the proposed Wall Street bailout package may have had a some financial incentive to do so — they received much more money from banks and securities than those who voted against the package, according to non... |
| Sep 19, 2008 | Tech Places Presidential Bets | The U.S. presidential election is roaring up. Industry contributions have become a standard feature of the ritual, so I thought it might be interesting to see how high tech invests -- oh, sorry -- donates. You might think that companies wou... |
| Jul 25, 2008 | Now The Senate Wants To Add A Copyright Czar To The White House | The House of Representatives passed the highly questionable Pro IP bill a few months ago. This bill, which would strengthen copyright law, just as many are realizing it should be headed in the other direction, would also establish a “Copyri... |
| Jun 25, 2008 | Perhaps The Senate Won't Roll Over On Telecom Immunity | Maybe, just maybe, there are a few people in the Senate who actually won’t just roll over and hand the President a “get out of jail free” card to give to telcos who carried out the almost certainly illegal “warrantless wiretapping” program.... |
| Mar 21, 2008 | Can a wiki change Congress? | Change Congress, the political reform website from Stanford Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig and Democratic campaign consultant Joe Trippi, has gone live. The site’s functionality is pretty limited right now, but over the next few months new featu... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Lessig talks about running for Congress (maybe) | Internet activist and Stanford Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig is considering a run for Congress, a decision he discussed with VentureBeat today.
Lessig made a name for himself through his involvement in the “free culture” movement, which critici... |
| Jan 11, 2008 | MapLight — shedding light on politicians and their special interests | Maplight.org, is a Berkeley, Calif.’ company that opens the kimono on politicians, their financial ties with interest groups, and how they vote on bills in U.S Congress or state senate.
The site creates an extraordinary transparency not see... |
| Dec 6, 2007 | US Anti-Piracy Bill Increases Penalties for Copyright Infringement | The “Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2007” not only proposes stiffer penalties, but also calls for an intellectual property office in the White House and similar divisions at the justice department.
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| Nov 13, 2007 | Exclusive: Barack Obama to name a “Chief Technology Officer” | The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has given VentureBeat an exclusive look at his technology plan, which he plans to unveil officially tomorrow (Wednesday) before a visit to Google’s headquarters.
The full plan c... |