The company told Instagram fans it has no intention of selling photos after its new terms and conditions sparked outrage among users yesterday. The photo-sharing service saw many of its users threaten to delete their accounts after it ...
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Proposed laws could protect virtual intellectual property. A number of Internet laws that aim to protect intellectual property rights online have been proposed in recent months. While only one piece of legislation has passed, proposed ...
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A South Korean court has ruled that technology giants Apple and Samsung Electronics infringed each other's patents. The Seoul Central District Court ordered a partial ban of their products covered by the ruling in South Korea, according ...
Speech of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General at the MOHR Conference, National Centre for Human Rights, Baghdad 19 December 2012. Minister for Human Rights, Engineer Shiya Al Sudaani, Excellencies, Ladies and ...
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Swiss bank UBS is planning to take legal action against Nasdaq OMX Group to recoup losses it made related to the Facebook IPO, the company said on Tuesday as it reported its second quarter results. As a result of "the gross mishandling of ...
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Apple's patent license agreement with HTC will not be put entirely under seal, except for the pricing and royalty terms, a court in California ordered in a patent infringement lawsuit between Samsung Electronics and Apple. Judge Lucy H. ...
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A court in California has given its preliminary approval to a revised class settlement in a lawsuit brought against Facebook by users who claimed that their names and likeness were used without their prior consent in "Sponsored Stories" ...
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Mike Lynch, the founder and former CEO of Autonomy, has defended himself against claims by HP CEO Meg Whitman that Autonomy had engaged in accounting practices that painted a misleading picture of Autonomy's business. HP bought Autonomy ...
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The Telegraph reported that a verbal duel between TATA Steel security guards and contract workers over taking bicycles inside company premises snowballed into an ugly stone versus bullet war, triggering rampage and arson and leaving nine ...
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AFP quoted British oil giant BP saying that it had agreed to sell its stake in China's Yacheng gas field to the state owned Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company as part of a divestment program. BP said that it has agreed the sale ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review an April decision by its administrative law judge in a patent dispute between Microsoft and Motorola Mobility that has attracted a lot of attention including from the U.S. ...
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Instagram has denied that it will start selling its users' photos, and tried to explain its updated privacy policy as it aims to put its disillusioned user base at ease. The website, which has about 100 million users, with roughly a third ...
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An outage in O2's network on Friday left 10% of its customers unable to use their phones on Friday. O2 admitted the fault late Friday afternoon, saying one of the network nodes for connecting its traffic had fallen over. This meant O2 ...
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Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings (R&Q) has completed purchase of the entire issued share capital of LINPAC Insurance Company Limited (LICL) from LINPAC Finance for a cash consideration of 450k from existing resources. LICL is a ...
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Credit card issuer Visa USA plans to create a global IT center in Austin and hire about 800 people to run it. Visa's agreement with the state of Texas for its Global IT Center sets year-by-year average annualized compensation levels ...