How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington

Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by bane on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:45PM (#12286525)

Lots of questions over how much firms of this type spend on lobbying, here's an article with some figures.

http://watchdog.org/124909/defense-spending/

As an example Lockheed Martin spent around $14.4m in 2013 and does about $45b/year in revenue.

According to this Palantir spent around $1m in 2015 and gets about $1b/year in revenue.

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by tmd83 on Sunday August 14, 2016 @02:31PM (#12286700)

Lobbying from what I understand is a more polite form of corruption for the most part. I think in the parts of the world where corruption is more direct (bribes) you actually have to pay a lot more to get this kind of returns.

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