Google spent $18M lobbying D.C. in 2012. Apple spent $2M

[onehandle]

Source: CNN

FORTUNE -- The last time we looked at Silicon Valley's lobbying efforts, Google was the big spender and Apple the piker. (See For every $1 Google spends lobbying, Apple spends 10¢.)

That hasn't changed much in the past nine months. In fact, Google increased its political spending in 2012 -- a Presidential election year -- by nearly 90%, while Apple reduced its by 13%.




Read more: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/02/18/apple-google-lobbying-washington/

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The World's Largest Ad Spammer is also Washington's Biggest Briber in the tech sector.

[Ezlivin]

1. Bribing Chinese politicians is always cheaper

N/T

[onehandle]

2. True. Just ask Samsung. China's number one technology client. nt

[mimi85]

3. So much for

"Do No Evil"

[Exultant Democracy]

4. That money is also the real reason SOPA was blocked.

[TM99]

5. Google uses Washington

and Apple uses patent litigation.

Six of one, half dozen of another.

Though I must agree that Google has used a lot of the lobbying effort to stop egregious thinks like SOPA and hopefully will be able to stop the newly revisited CISPA.

[wordpix]

6. many corp's pay professional lobbying firms to do their lobbying for them

which is not shown in this graph