Society & Economics
Sweeping US legislation in the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank met the eurozone's first bailout, a jobless global recovery, the decennial census, Shanghai's record Expo, and Twitter's rise.
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FCC Adopts the 2010 Open Internet Order
On December 21, 2010, the US Federal Communications Commission adopted the Open Internet Order, i...
Airbnb Series A Funding and the Birth of the Sharing Economy
Airbnb raised $7.2 million in Series A funding in November 2010 from Greylock Partners and Sequoi...
China Overtakes Japan as the World's Second-Largest Economy
On August 16, Japan's Q2 GDP data confirmed China had surpassed it as the world's second-largest ...
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
On July 21, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Pr...
Twitter and Social Media Growth in 2010
Throughout 2010, Twitter emerged from a tech-insider platform into a mass-media phenomenon, trans...
Global Unemployment and Economic Recovery of 2010
Throughout 2010, the world economy continued its uneven recovery from the 2008–2009 global financ...
Cleantech Venture Capital Boom — $8.8 Billion in Green En...
Cleantech venture capital and private equity investment surged to $8.8 billion in 2010, up 28% fr...
Foxconn Labor Crisis and Apple Supply Chain Scrutiny
Between January and November 2010, eighteen Foxconn workers in Shenzhen attempted suicide in resp...
Bitcoin Pizza Day: The First Commercial Bitcoin Transaction
On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoin for two pizzas — the first documen...
Flash Crash
The Dow Jones plummeted nearly 1,000 points in 36 minutes on May 6, briefly erasing $1 trillion i...
European Sovereign Debt Crisis and the First Greek Bailout
During 2010 the eurozone entered the acute phase of a sovereign debt crisis that would test the f...
Shanghai Expo 2010
Shanghai Expo 2010 (officially Expo 2010 Shanghai China) was the World's Fair held in Shanghai, C...
Groupon Series C Funding and the Rise of Social Commerce
Groupon raised $135 million in Series C funding at a $1.35 billion valuation in April 2010, becom...
2010 United States Census
Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution mandates a decennial enumeration of the population ...
Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly called the Affordable Care Act or ...
Venture Capital Recovery Post-Financial Crisis
U.S. venture capital reached $21.8 billion in 2010—a 19.4% increase over 2009 and the first incre...
Toyota's Massive Recall Crisis — Largest Automotive Recal...
Toyota initiated the largest automotive recall in history in 2010, recalling over 8 million vehic...