Rory O'Connor

De­spite the ap­par­ent sup­port for re­form, the new im­mi­gra­tion deal may “fall apart once again, just as in the past”.

This is an ex­cel­lent time for any en­ti­ty in­ter­est­ed in mak­ing an im­pact in the US ca­ble news en­vi­ron­ment, notes au­thor.

Both the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic and Re­pub­li­can Na­tion­al Com­mit­tees have al­ready spent mil­lions on data ac­qui­si­tion, writes O’Con­nor.

Oba­ma has high­er Twit­ter in­volve­ment, but Rom­ney’s tweets go vi­ral more of­ten, writes O’Con­nor.

While many thought the 2008 cam­paign was fo­cused on­line, the 2012 elec­tion will be ‘dig­i­tal on steroids’.

It’s time for the world’s largest econ­o­my – the US – to learn from Japan and Ger­many, and ditch nu­clear pow­er.

More and more Face­book users are be­com­ing aware of how their per­son­al in­for­ma­tion is be­ing tracked, used and shared.

The in­ter­net gi­ant may lose the ‘so­cial’ e-war it is wag­ing, es­pe­cial­ly as it faces anti-trust suits on many fronts.

The Re­pub­li­can cam­paign may drag on, but the GOP win­ner has al­ready been de­cid­ed.

New Hamp­shire and Iowa wield so much pow­er and in­flu­ence, they make a mock­ery of the US pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry process.