The National Audit Office (NAO) today ruled that Vodafone’s settlement of its UK tax bill was "reasonable", despite being almost GBP 5bn less than it was originally thought to have owed. The mobile operator came under scrutiny ...
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SAP has agreed to pay Oracle US$306 million in connection with the corporate-theft case that Oracle filed against it and a former SAP subsidiary in 2007, according to a filing made Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern ...
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The strongly worded order by a California judge saying Oracle has to keep porting its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers is not the end of the nasty legal battle between the two companies, but it could have an effect on the ...
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HTC could get Apple’s iPhone and iPad banned in the US because of patents, which of course would include the new iPhone 5 set for release today. A US judge has said that Apple may have trouble invalidating two patents held by HTC ...
Closing arguments have begun in the high-profile patent-infringement case between Apple and Samsung. The process, which is expected to occupy the court for the rest of Tuesday, began with Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny imploring the ...
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Jurors hearing arguments between Apple and Samsung have been warned not to accept software updates or install apps on mobile gadgets they receive while deliberating the merits of the patent-infringement case. The case, which has been in ...
A nine-person California jury will begin their deliberations Wednesday in the landmark patent battle between Apple and Samsung. The case, which has been argued since the beginning of the month, pits two of the world's largest electronics ...
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A U.S. judge has imposed a judgment of $163.2 million against a defendant accused by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission of being part of an operation that sold software to people it tricked into thinking their computers were infected with ...
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Call it the legal equivalent of baseball's seventh-inning stretch. San Jose District Court Judge Lucy Koh plans to get the courtroom in the Apple versus Samsung case on its feet later Tuesday in a bid to stave off sleep as the jury hears a ...
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An administrative law judge at the U.S.International Trade Commission has ruled that Apple did not violate a Motorola Mobility patent relating to a sensor controlled user interface for a portable communication device. Judge Thomas ...
A year after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' death, the company has changed, analysts said today. Oh, no it hasn't, said others. There's no question that in the 12 months since Jobs' death on Oct. 5, 2011, Apple has remained a powerhouse ...
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Chevron has proposed a deal to Brazilian prosecutors to resolve Real 40 billion ($19.17 billion) in outstanding legal actions over the Frade Field oil spill. In the proposal, discussed at a public hearing at federal prosecutors' offices ...
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A Federal Court judge warned Samsung on Wednesday to rethink its allegation that Apple improperly influenced expert witnesses key to the companies' ongoing patent infringement trial. Justice Annabelle Claire Bennett advised Samsung ...
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Oracle has sued former partner CedarCrestone on grounds it has been providing third-party support for Oracle’s software in an illegal fashion, a move that echoes previous actions Oracle took against former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow ...
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AU Optronics was fined $500 million by a court in San Francisco on Thursday, and two of its former executives were fine and sentenced to three-year prison terms in connection with an LCD price-fixing conspiracy, the Department of Justice ...
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