Yahoo received more than 30,000 requests from seventeen different countries around the world for user data in the first half of this year, resulting in more than 25,000 instances of data disclosure, it said Friday in its first transparency ...
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A jury in Seattle, Washington, has ruled in favor of Microsoft in a patent dispute with Motorola Mobility over standards patents, according to court records. The jury was to decide Wednesday whether Motorola, now a part of Google, ...
This is the second suit that Microsoft has won against Motorola. A federal jury in Seattle has ordered Google's Motorola Mobility to pay $14.5m in damages to Microsoft after failing to license its patents at a reasonable rate. Microsoft ...
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Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said on Friday that the company would move ahead with its lawsuit against the U.S. government, seeking permission to release more information on demands Microsoft receives from the National Security ...
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Governments requested information about 38,000 Facebook users in the first six months of this year the social network has revealed. Facebook's Global Government Requests Report comes after the social network revealed it received 10,000 ...
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A Bitcoin trade group met with representatives of several U.S government agencies Monday as regulators debate whether the?on-line?currency should comply with currency rules. Bitcoin critics have raised questions about the ability to ...
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Software giant Microsoft is co-operating with US federal authorities in an investigation into alleged "illegal activity" by employees and business partners in Russia and Pakistan. John Frank, vice president and deputy general counsel of ...
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Microsoft has directly accused Google of sabotaging the YouTube app on the Windows Phone platform with "impossible roadblocks", accusing the web company - which owns the video streaming network - of demanding unnecessary development ...
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CAO Lighting, Inc., a spinoff of the lighting division of CAO Group, Inc., received favorable decisions from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in response to petitions in inter parte re-exam filed by GE Lighting, Inc. and OSRAM ...
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Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc (AMEC) of Shanghai, China has been granted Validated End-User (VEU) status by the US Department of Commerce. AMEC makes dielectric and through-silicon via (TSV) etch systems, and at March's SEMICON ...
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Several U.S. senators will push for changes in the way the National Security Agency collects the telephone records of millions of U.S. residents, with lawmakers saying they will focus on making the NSA program more transparent to the ...
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The National Retail Federation issued the following statement from Senior Vice President and General Counsel Mallory Duncan on U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s decision that found that the Federal Reserve misapplied Congress’ ...
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Chinese government officials agreed to crack down on software and other piracy and to take steps to ensure that state-owned organizations use legal software. The commitments, reached during negotiations with U.S. government ...
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The US Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from refiners and other groups to overturn a lower-court decision denying its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's partial approval of the ethanol/gasoline blend E15. ...
Nike announced that Charlie Denson, NIKE Brand President since 2006 and a 34-year veteran of the brand, will retire in January 2014. In conjunction with Denson’s decision to retire, the Company also announced strategic changes in its ...
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