Internet search giant Google has reached a deal under legal mediation with French anti-racism groups which objected to the search engine suggesting users add "Jew" to searches for prominent names. Both sides confirmed the deal had been reached for the groups to drop a legal complaint against Google but refused to comment on its specifics.
A U.S. judge granted Apple Inc's request for a pre-trial injunction against the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy Nexus phone, handing the iPhone maker its second legal victory against Samsung in a week. Apple and Samsung, the world's largest consumer electronics corporations, are waging legal war in several countries, accusing each other of patent violations as they vie for supremacy in a fast-growing market for mobile devices.
U.S. antitrust regulators are investigating whether Google unit Motorola Mobility is living up to licensing commitments made when its patents were adopted as industry standards, two people familiar with the probe said. The Federal Trade Commission sent civil investigative demands, essentially civil subpoenas, to companies this week asking them about Motorola Mobility's licensing practices, one person said.
The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation that would bar states from taxing digital goods such as a movie download at a higher rate than its physical counterpart such as a DVD. Even though the panel approved the bill by voice vote, several members outlined issues that they say need to be fixed before the bill moves to the House floor, including concerns about the measure's impact on states and local governments.
Apple Inc's suppliers in China have violated local labor laws when they imposed excessive overtime and skimped on insurance, a New York-based labor rights group said. Apple and its suppliers such as Taiwanese tycoon Terry Gou's Foxconn Technology Group have been the target of labor rights groups, which say the world's most valuable technology company are making iPhones and iPads in massive sweat shops.
Delaware's legislature passed a law that could make the state the first to open its population to a full range of legal online gambling, including Internet blackjack, poker and slot games. The bill is expected to be signed by the state's governor and comes in the wake of a Justice Department legal interpretation last year that allowed states to authorize Internet gambling within their borders.
Search warrants used when 70 New Zealand police raided the mansion of the suspected kingpin of an Internet piracy ring were illegal, a New Zealand court ruled, dealing a blow to the FBI's highest profile global copyright theft case. German national Kim Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz, was one of four men arrested in January as part of an investigation of his Megaupload.com website led by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Comcast Corp. agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a Federal Communications Commission complaint that it didn't offer stand-alone Internet service to consumers as agreed when it acquired control of NBCUniversal. An FCC investigation found that Comcast service representatives weren't adequately informing consumers that they had an option to purchase only broadband service of at least six megabits per second for $49.95.
Two Democratic lawmakers said Congress should examine whether major wireless carriers and cable companies are stifling the growth of online video services like Netflix Inc and Hulu by limiting the amount of content Internet subscribers can download each month. Online video providers have argued that data caps are keeping more Americans from accessing their programming as they worry bandwidth-heavy shows and movies could interrupt their Internet service.
Amid Silicon Valley's latest tech boom, law firms once again are taking equity stakes in start-ups—but this time they generally aren't waiving their fees and instead are often deferring them or charging special rates. From big law firms such as Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to one-man shop Bottom Line Law Group, firms have become more creative and less exposed to risk when it comes to snagging new clients.
Samsung Electronics said it is disappointed with a court's ruling that prevents the company from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer in the U.S. while its patent infringement lawsuit with Apple plays out. The South Korean company said in a statement to The Times on Wednesday that it believed the preliminary injunction "will ultimately reduce the availability of superior technological features to consumers in the United States."
Microsoft Corp lost its appeal against an EU decision penalizing it for defying an antitrust ruling, bringing nearer to an end a decade-long battle with the European Commission over the U.S. software group's business practices. Antitrust experts said the verdict by the General Court, Europe's second-highest, may strengthen the Commission's hand in ongoing cases against Google, Samsung Electronics and Motorola Mobility related to their patents.
A judge on granted Apple Inc's bid to stop Samsung Electronics from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the United States, giving the iPhone maker a significant win in the global smartphone and tablet patent wars. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, had previously denied Apple's bid for an injunction on the tablet and multiple Galaxy smartphones.
The Authors Guild is objecting to a proposed settlement between the Justice Department and three publishers over charges of price fixing in the electronic book trade, saying the deal gives Amazon the ability to "reshape the literary market" through excessive discounting, according to a filing. In their filing, the Authors Guild complains of "Amazon's monopolistic reach" in the bookselling market, and charges that the online retailer is relying on a set of unfair tactics to ensure that publishers comply with Amazon's pricing policies.
An Iranian-rights group sent an open-letter to Apple, blasting the company for denying Farsi-speaking Americans across the country the right to buy iPads simply because of the language they speak. The Farsi farce began last week in Alpharetta, Ga., where 19-year-old U.S. citizen Sahar Sabet claims she was turned down when she tried to purchase the tablet computer.
Authorities in the United States and overseas arrested 26 people in a crackdown on Internet credit card fraud after an extensive undercover operation. Two individuals were arrested in New York, nine elsewhere in the United States and 15 in 12 other countries, according to a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Cybercriminals attempted to steal at least $75 million from high-balance business and consumer bank accounts by using sophisticated fraud automation techniques that can bypass two-factor authentication, according to a report released by antivirus firm McAfee and online banking security vendor Guardian Analytics.
Kevin Mitnick, one of the best-known computer hackers of all time, knows what it is to be hunted by the American government and to face jail time as a result. That may be why Mitnick cheered Kim DotCom on via Twitter.
U.S. regulators filed a complaint against Wyndham Worldwide Corp and three subsidiaries, alleging that a failure to safeguard consumers' personal information led to more than $10 million lost to fraud. The Federal Trade Commission said repeated failures to secure consumer data led to hundreds of thousands of consumers' payment card information being exported to an Internet domain address registered in Russia.
Google risks becoming a publishing monopoly within a few years, Italy's antitrust chief said, adding that social networks should be subject to antitrust limits.
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