Autonomy founder and former CEO Mike Lynch has written an open letter to HP calling for immediate and specific explanations to the allegations HP has made about the software company. HP bought UK software company Autonomy for $11.7bn in ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook has proposed a revised settlement in a lawsuit in which it was alleged to have used the names and likeness of the plaintiffs without their prior consent in "Sponsored Stories" advertisements shown to their online ...
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At a hearing held in Windsor, Ontario on September 12, 2011, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved a settlement of the class action Court File No. CV-08-11573 (Windsor) in respect of Construction Flat Glass against the defendants ...
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A federal judge in California dismissed a privacy class-action lawsuit against LinkedIn that alleged the social media network violated provisions of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) when it disclosed the IDs and browsing histories of ...
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The Association of American Publishers and Google have reached a settlement to end seven years of litigation over the company's book-scanning project. The agreement settles a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Google in October ...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has granted a stay in a 7-year-old copyright lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild over the Google Books scanning project. On Monday, Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier Jr. granted Google's request ...
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US health insurer WellPoint has agreed to shell out$90m as a compensate amount to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 700,000 former members of Anthem Insurance Companies. WellPoint,the corporate parent of Anthem ...
Thomas A Bryson, director of graduate studies for USC's chemistry and biochemistry department, filed a class-action lawsuit in Richland County on behalf of all state employees against the State Budget and Control Board for raising health ...
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European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has advocated to impose mandatory cyber insurance for firms and urged insurance firms to develop related schemes, which will assist them to save reputational damage. The agency in ...
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IDG News Service-News of weak server sales,continuing turmoil at Hewlett-Packard and the ongoing U.S.political impasse over the so-called"fiscal cliff"have not given tech industry watchers much to cheer about this week. Major IT companies ...
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A U.S.district judge has approved a request for class action in a lawsuit against pizza maker Papa John's International for allegedly sending hundreds of thousands of text spam messages. Seattle law firm Heyrich Kalish ...
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The U.S.Supreme Court has refused to overturn a lower-court decision upholding legal immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly participated in a National Security Agency surveillance program during the last decade. The ...
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Facebook has offered a new settlement amount in the ongoing class action lawsuit resulting from its "Sponsored Stories" scheme. The social networking site has proposed a figure of $20m (£12.5m), which will be shared by the class ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to overturn legal immunity for telecom carriers that allegedly participated with a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program during the last decade. The Supreme Court, without ...
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A new set of terms and conditions has been sent to existing users of Microsoft's online services–including Hotmail,SkyDrive,Messenger,Bing,MSN and Office.com–that effectively prohibits a user from filing a class action lawsuit ...
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