private enterprise

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What’s more, those are NASA’s plans, and they don’t include military space business or private enterprise, including the communications and imaging networks being built out by SpaceX, AST SpaceMobile, Amazon.com, Planet Labs, and others.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

If the Pentagon wins at trial, what are the long-term implications for American private enterprise?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

“We think we are in a pretty good position to be a winner in the inferencing market, because Oracle is by far the world’s largest custodian of high-value private enterprise data.”

From MarketWatch • Dec. 9, 2025

We’re talking about a provision of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which was enacted to give private enterprise more latitude to exploit government-funded research in the public interest.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2023

In June 1956, in the monthly journal Liberation, I pointed out that the charter endorsed private enterprise and would allow capitalism to flourish among Africans for the first time.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela