Samsung's Galaxy S4 infringes on 5 Apple patents, according to a court filing by Apple. Apple wants to add the new Galaxy S4 to an ongoing case involving Apple and Samsung being heard in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of ...
A US commodity trading house has filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against BP, Shell and Statoil, the three European oil companies being investigated by the European Commission for suspected manipulation of oil prices. The oil ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Twitter has reached a settlement with Skootle that prohibits the Tennessee-based company from spamming Twitter users' feeds with marketing and other promotional content. The case, which dates back to a lawsuit that Twitter brought against ...
Penguin has settled with U.S. states in an e-book price-fixing lawsuit, leaving only Apple now in the fray. Four other publishers accused of price-fixing with Apple settled earlier with the 33 states and territories and the U.S. ...
Nokia is targeting HTC's latest slate of smartphones, including the HTC One, with new legal action in the U.S. that demands the Taiwanese company cease the alleged patent infringement. Nokia is accusing the HTC One, and several other HTC ...
The National Retail Federation announced that it will formally oppose a proposed settlement of a federal antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees charged by Visa and MasterCard, and urged retailers to carefully consider their own ...
To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Tokyo-based Terumo Medical announced that the US District Court for the District of New Jersey has issued an order approving an agreement of the parties. Under the terms of the agreement, Vascular Solutions will cease further manufacture, ...
For first-quarter 2013, GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) has ...
Tags: GigOptix, Electrical, Electronics
Several users of devices running Google's Android operating system have filed an amended version of an earlier lawsuit accusing the company of illegally collecting, and allowing others to collect, extensive amounts of mobile user data ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products
A federal court in New York has denied class certification to copyright owners in an infringement lawsuit against YouTube over unauthorized hosting of content, stating that copyright claims have only superficial similarities. Judge Louis ...
Tags: Copyright Owners, Youtube Suit
Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice said on Thursday. The court said that it has referred a case about YouTube embeds to the ...
Tags: German Case, EU Court
T-Mobile USA has dropped a pending challenge to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules. T-Mobile inherited the challenge when it merged with MetroPCS in a deal that closed earlier this month. MetroPCS and ...
Tags: T-Mobile, FCC, Net Neutrality Rules
Concerned about Amazon.com's low pricing of e-books, publishers had taken measures as early as 2009 such as "windowing," a practice of delaying e-book releases to benefit sales of hardcover editions, Apple said in a filing in an e-book ...
Tags: e-Book Case, Apple, Computer Products
New social media privacy laws that have been enacted in several states around the country, or those in the works, present something of a mixed bag for businesses. While the laws generally limit companies from asking job seekers and ...
Tags: Social Media, Businesses, Mixed Bag, Computer Products