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The trip, organized by the trade group Council of the Americas, continues until Thursday and coincides with the six-month anniversary of President Barack Obama’s announcement of loosening sanctions that he said “have denied Cubans access to technology,” Nancy writes. With notoriously restricted Internet access in Cuba, Google could see a chance to deploy its more experimental connection methods like Project Loon, or something else entirely.
This follows the Obama administration’s historic decision to extend an olive branch to the Caribbean nation after decades of hostility. ‘We don’t know what they’ve proposed, but we do know they’ve proposed something,’ the official said.” “But a senior State Department official, speaking on background, said the search giant has made a proposal to the Cuban government. “Google declined to say much else about its work in Cuba,” she writes. A company representative is joining a dozen-or-so business leaders on a trip to Havana this week to “focus on helping the Cuban government think through their publicly-stated goal of improving Internet access,” a company spokesperson told Nancy. ICYMI: GOOGLE TESTS THE WATERS IN CUBA - If Cuba is serious about opening up, it looks like Google is interested. “Dropbox has become such an important part of how people around the world share and protect everything from work files to memories,” she said.
Cottle said in a statement that she’s excited to join and help Dropbox grow globally. Dropbox’s lobbying efforts so far have focused on patent reform and government surveillance (it’s a member of the United for Patent Reform and Reform Government Surveillance coalitions), and Cottle will help the company stake out critical policy positions once she joins mid-July, a company spokeswoman said. Amber Cottle, formerly Apple’s vice president of public policy and government affairs for the Americas, will become head of global public policy and government affairs at Dropbox, reporting to the cloud company’s General Counsel Ramsey Homsany. this summer, and it’s tapping an Apple exec to make it happen.
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