President Obama plans to appoint current Federal Trade Commission member Jon Leibowitz to lead the agency, which partially enforces antitrust laws and has taken a recent interest in online advertising. An administration official on Monday confirmed to CNET News that Leibowitz, a Democrat appointed to the...

Recovery.gov blocked search engine tracking Update: As of 8 a.m. PST, within three hours of this story first going live, it appears that President Obama’s Web team has (silently) pulled the robots.txt file from the Recovery.gov Web site. The site is now open to Web crawlers of all kinds. The Obama...

President Barack Obama signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in Denver. President Obama signed into law a government stimulus package Tuesday and said the energy provisions will pave the path for doubling the amount of renewable energy in the next three years. Energy is a major piece of the...

Kleiner Perkins investor John Doerr speaks at the MIT Energy Conference last spring. Two Silicon Valley leaders have been appointed by President Obama to a 16-person committee that’s charged with offering economic advice during what has become an unusually sharp and deep recession. John Doerr, the...

Commerce Secretary-designate Judd Gregg (center) speaks Tuesday at the White House, accompanied by Vice President Biden and President Obama. Republican senator Judd Gregg on Tuesday officially became President Obama’s nominee for secretary of commerce, bringing a pro-business and pro-law enforcement...