Following similar disclosures from companies such as Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests it has received from law enforcement agencies for data about its users, and the criteria it employs ...
As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers launches a new trademark clearinghouse on Tuesday, businesses that own trademarks should consider getting involved in the program, some ICANN watchers said. ICANN is launching the ...
Flowserve Corporation announced that it has received orders totaling more than $9 million for a range of valves serving a new nickel ore processing facility located in Long Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada. Booked in 2012, the Flowserve ...
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Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is taking allegations that business partners engaged in bribery to gain government contracts in three countries outside the U.S. very seriously. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the U.S. ...
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Following similar disclosures from companies like Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests it has received from law enforcement agencies for data about its users, and the criteria it employs to ...
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The U.S. Congress needs to shut down so-called patent trolls whose infringement lawsuits are diverting company resources from hiring and research, a group of technology companies told lawmakers Thursday. Representatives of Cisco Systems, ...
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Components supplier Hickory Spring Mfg. has realigned the responsibilities of several of its top executives as part of a corporate restructuring announced last month. The restructuring involves the creation of four business units - ...
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Reportedly, AK Steel has appointed Stephanie Bisselberg as Vice President, effective April 1st, 2013. She will replace Lawrence F. Zizzo’s who announced the retirement after 35 years career in the steel industry. Ms. ...
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Some of the smallest mobile operators in the U.S. have lined up behind a deal that would dramatically expand the country's fourth-largest carrier, a twist that has everything to do with the national dominance of AT&T and Verizon Wireless. ...
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Amazon.com's application for top-level domain strings, including for ".book" and ".read," has come under attack from publishing industry groups and competitor Barnes & Noble. Authors Guild in New York, for example, said it objected to the ...
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Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 is a video compression technology ...
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So-called patent trolls force technology companies to spend money on lawyers instead of innovation, and Congress needs to discourage infringement lawsuits from patent-collecting companies, a group of tech and business representatives said. ...
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Mozilla will automatically block third-party cookies starting with Firefox 22, which is slated to ship this summer, according to the Stanford University researcher who coded the change. The move, which will make it more difficult for ...
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Software patents, facing new scrutiny in the U.S., drive innovation and protect huge investments by developers, representatives of software companies said during a Capitol Hill briefing. The U.S. patent system isn't perfect, but lawmakers ...
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GOOGLE'S revamping of its search formula last year failed so far to live up to its promise of discouraging consumers from visiting illegal music websites, an industry group says. A report released this week by the Recording Industry ...
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