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Exclusive: Yahoo Finally Set to Strike Alibaba Share Deal -- Half Now, Then Half of What's Left After Eventual IPO

Yahoo is in the final stages of selling a large chunk of its stake in the Alibaba Group back to the company — in a complex deal that is set to include a multi-billion-dollar share buyback to investors of the Silicon Valley Internet giant and an eve...
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Yahoo Interim CEO Explores Settlement In Patent-Infringement Suit; Facebook Seeks Dismissal
Will a new chief executive officer bring new hopes for a settlement in the patent-infringement brouhaha between Yahoo and Facebook? Yahoo Interim CEO Ross Levinsohn (pictured) reportedly reached out to the social network in hopes of a settlement, after ta...
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Even as Settlement Hopes Appear, Facebook Blames Shoddy Checking in Answer to Yahoo Patent Fraud Claim

When last we tuned in in the ongoing drama that is the patent infringement lawsuit that Yahoo aimed at Facebook, Yahoo had a CEO — Scott Thompson — who was full steam ahead in pressing the controversial legal action.
Now, multiple sources sai...
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Leave the Gun. Take the Cannoli: It's Ring-Kissing Time for Ross at Yahoo's All-Hands Meeting

At today’s all-hands meeting for Yahoo employees — in the wake of the dramatic ouster of its former CEO Scott Thompson — what pop culture icon did new interim CEO Ross Levinson use to loosen up the crowd?
Why a little Al Pacino from mov...
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Loeb Lobs Lawsuit, As Expected, at Yahoo's Borked Bio Mess

Botched CEO bio. Activist shareholder. Screwy board of directors. Mix it all together and what do you get?
More legal filings, natch!
This — as I reported this weekend would happen today — from Dan Loeb of Third Point, which is waging a proxy...
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Yahoo Should Expect Incoming Lawsuit Lobbed by Loeb Tomorrow on CEO Hiring

On Friday, Third Point’s Dan Loeb — the activist shareholder who is waging an ever nasty proxy battle against Yahoo — said in a letter regarding the inexplicable errors in the resume of its CEO Scott Thompson that he would take “f...
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Yahoo: 16 More Patents ‘May Be Relevant’ To Facebook Lawsuit
The fifth amendment to Facebook’s initial public offering filing contained a warning that Yahoo found 16 more patents that “may be relevant” to the patent-infringement lawsuit it filed against Facebook in March.
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Nokia and execs hit with lawsuit alleging fraud over meager Lumia sales, failed turnaround
Troubled Finnish phone giant Nokia is increasingly troubled, unicorns be damned.
The latest bad news for the phone maker: along with high-ranking executives Stephen Elop (CEO) and Timo Ihamuotila (CFO), the company has been hit with a class action lawsuit...
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Follow-Up of the Day: Student Left in Cell Sues DEA for $20M



It was never a question of when, but how much: Daniel Chong, the UC San Diego student abandoned in a cell by the Drug Enforcement Administration for five days without food, water, or human contact, has filed a lawsuit seeking $20 millio...
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Man seeks more than $5m in class suit against Apple for alleged ‘double-billing’ in iTunes
A man named Robert Herskowitz has filed a federal class action suit against Apple, alleging that the company ‘double-bills’ for purchases made on iTunes with “troubling regularity” and that the company’s “illegal”...
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Facebook IPO Docs Could Get Approval This Week, Followed by Road Show With Zuckerberg (No Guarantee on Tie)

According to sources close to the situation, Facebook is anticipating getting approval from government regulators to officially distribute its S-1 public offering prospectus to investors within days, which would mean its road show could begin as early as...
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Byte Me: Yahoo Files More Patent Claims Against Facebook

In spite of intense criticism against its patent infringement lawsuit in March, Yahoo filed additional claims against Facebook today.
“Today Yahoo! filed additional claims against Facebook in U.S. District Court in San Jose related to two additiona...
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In Pricey Microsoft Patent Deal, Facebook Delivers Another Smackdown to Yahoo Lawsuit

When I wrote that Facebook was going to play rough after Yahoo sued it for patent infringement earlier this year, perhaps it would have been more prescient to say that it was going to pay much.
Except not to Yahoo, whose bully-boy bluff has effectively j...
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Yahoo's Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move of a Larger Purge to Come

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo’s massive round of layoffs — which is likely to impact up to 2,000 employees — is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg that will hit the storied Silicon Valley Internet giant in the m...
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Here Are the 10 New Back-at-You Patent Exhibits in Facebook Versus Yahoo

Here are the actual 10 patents that Facebook is using in its just-filed counter-claim against Yahoo’s patent infringement lawsuit.
Several are held by Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, as well as other employees of the social networking ...
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Apple's Glass Stores: A Danger to Birds and Old Ladies? [Apple]





Every year thousands of birds smack their faces on the glass walls of Apple Stores, and it's very sad. But have you ever considered the grandmas? An 83-year-old fur magnate walked face-first into an Apple ...
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What Does Dan Loeb Want for His $1B -- Lotsa Yahoo News, That's What!

Last week, Yahoo’s activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point, the New York hedge fund that is waging a proxy fight against the Silicon Valley Internet giant, made a regulatory filing noting that it had spent $971.1 million to acquire 70.5 millio...
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CEO Thompson Tells Yahoos "Real Change Is Coming" (It's Exclusive Internal Memo Time!)

It began: “Yahoos: A lot has happened since I last talked to you.”
You can say that again!
Yesterday, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson sent out an email to the troops in what appears to be an attempt to soothe the company, which has been under a lot ...
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Nobody Puts Dan Loeb in the Corner: Third Point Begins Proxy Bombing Yahoo in 3 … 2 … 1

Yahoo just got yet another poison-pen letter from activist investor Dan Loeb of Third Point, which says the company has been “dismissive” of his alternate slate of board members, including former NBC head Jeff Zucker.
It is another doozy, ful...
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Déjà Hoo: Yahoo Has Done the Pre-IPO Legal Shakedown Dance Before

A hot Internet company poised for an even hotter IPO is attacked in court by a competitor whose lunch it has been eating.
Sound familiar? Actually, it’s just as much Google in 2004 as Facebook yesterday.
What the pair have in common is Yahoo, for ...
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Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls "Puzzling" (Including Filing)

In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook.
The attack by the Silicon Valley Internet icon against perhaps the most powerful consumer social networkin...
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Worst But First: Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook's Zuckerberg to Poke Him in Patent Lawsuit

On the sixth page of its just filed patent lawsuit against Facebook, Yahoo quotes the social networking company’s CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg:
“Getting there first is not what it’s all about.”
The quote, which Yahoo conten...
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Apple Speaks Out Over Ebook Price Fixing Allegations [Ebooks]





With the US Department of Justice breathing down its neck, Apple is attempting to defend itself over allegations of ebook price fixing—claiming that it's the victim of conspiracy theories and over-an...
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So It's the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo -- The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

It was Yahoo legal head Mike Callahan who had the thankless task yesterday of calling Facebook’s general counsel Ted Ullyot to tell him the Silicon Valley Internet giant was intent on pursuing patent lawsuits against the social networking giant.
Th...
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Like I Said: AOL Activist Investor Files Alternate Slate (and AOL Declines to Agree)

As I reported this morning, an activist fund aiming at AOL took a shot today, by putting up its slate of alternate directors.
In a nutshell, Starboard Value does not like the way CEO Tim Armstrong is running the company and thinks it can do better.
My tw...
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The EFF sets up a site to help Megaupload users get their files back
It’s been two weeks since the Department of Justice arrested seven employees of Megaupload and shut it down. After all of the back and forth discussion about how this landmark case affects our online rights, the actual users of the site have been f...
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Megaupload drops its lawsuit against UMG over ‘Megupload Mega Song’, for now
Megaupload is clearly gearing up for legal warfare amidst its takedown and indictments this week.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, as it prepares for those legal proceedings, the company has dropped its lawsuit against Universal Music Group over the...
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Yahoo Intensifies Search for CEO (With Hulu's Kilar as One Dream Unicorn Candidate)

Whatever you want to call him or her — a silver bullet, the cure or, as I like to say, the last unicorn — Yahoo’s ever-seeking and never-deciding board has now renewed its focus on finding a new CEO.
Also on the docket: Working on a dea...
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Three Months After Bartz's Firing, It's Hurry Up and Wait at Yahoo (A Big Honking Update)

“Let’s go. Yes, let’s go.” [They do not move.]
– Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot”
In Internet terms, the removal of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz happened a dog’s age ago.
In fact, it was September 6.
Since the...
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The Yahoo Lawsuits Begin: Put the Non-Blabby Deals in Your PIPE and Smoke It

What took so long?
Actually, it did not take any time at all for someone to start legal proceedings against the current effort by Yahoo to sell itself.
In this case, no surprise, it is aimed directly at the how of doing it.
In an unusual injunction reque...
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US Court Rules That Samsung Can Keep Selling Galaxy Products... For Now [Patent Wars]





Galaxy fans can finally breathe a sigh of relief as Apple's request for a preliminary injunction against Samsung has been denied. But while the judge's ruling allows them to continue selling their products...
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N.J. Facebook ID Theft Case Could Impact Other States
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when the woman allegedly decides to create a fake Facebook profile to slander her ex-boyfriend.
Dana Thornton, 41, of Bellville, N.J., was indicted on one count of fourth-degree identity theft in Morris C...
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Yahoogle Redux? Why "Project Porcupine" Means Someone Is Definitely Going to Lose an Eye This Time.
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.

You gotta hand it to those geniuses over at the Googleplex, thinking up adorkable names for all their various plots and schemes.
And for its latest look-see of the Yahoo situation, it has revived an ol...
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Even Samsung's Lawyers Can't Tell the Difference Between Its Tablet and an iPad [Apple]






Apple says Samsung's blatantly ripped off its device designs. Not true, Samsung replies! Too bad its lawyer blew that argument harder than a hydrogen bomb blowjob: they couldn't tell the difference betwee...
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90 Percent of Pirates Get Dismissed from Massive Hurt Locker Lawsuit [Piracy]






The biggest P2P lawsuit ever just got cut down to size. Voltage Pictures, the people behind The Hurt Locker has voluntarily dismissed 90% of the 24,583 filesharers it sued this year, in what could be a bi...
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Timelines.com Claims Facebook Is Stealing Their Timelines' Mojo [Facebook]






Timelimes.com (note the "s") has filed suit against Facebook over their new Timeline feature. Because no one has ever thought of putting significant dates along a line before. More »

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Warner Bros. Copyright Clowns Take Five Spoons of Their Own Medicine [Piracy]






According to Hotfile, a guy by the name of Michael Bentkover and his cronies are copyright dicks, crooks and liars. Not with those words, but that's the executive summary of their copyright fraud lawsuit ...
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Shareholder Sues Motorola Claiming Google Didn't Pay Enough [Motorola]






Shareholder John W. Keating filed a complaint against Motorola Mobility and CEO Sanjay Jha claiming the mobile phone company sold itself to Google for pennies on the dollar. More »


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Apple Presents Misleading Evidence in German Case Against Samsung [Apple]






Apple filed an infringement complaint against Samsung and won an injunction that halted European sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Unfortunately for Apple, the images of the Samsung Galaxy Tab it submitted to...
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Microsoft Strikes Back at Google's Patent Rant With Condemning Email [Google]






Are you following the controversy surrounding Google's attack on its competitors for buying up the Nortel patents? It took a strange twist when Microsoft revealed that Google was originally in on the deal...
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Acting Like Animals: Run Lemur Run!


Dear Tom Tykwer,
I’d like to let you know that I’m suing you for everything you have, on account of you shamelessly stealing the idea for your opus “Run Lola Run” from the story that is my life. After watching the film, I’m...
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Murdoch & Son Visit Parliament, Return With a Big Helping Of Humble (and Shaving Cream) Pie

This morning, News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch, his son James (who is also a top company exec) — as well as former employee and full-time lightning rod Rebekah Brooks — march on down to the British Parliament to answer questions fr...
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Samsung Now Selling Apple Smart Cover Knock-offs for Their iPad Tablet Knock-offs [Apple]






Not happy for ripping off Apple's iPad design, Samsung is now selling this blatant copy of Apple's Smart Cover. It's manufactured by Anymode, a Korean company with a "strong affiliation with Samsung Elect...
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Apple Demands Sales Ban Against Samsung in Growing Trade Battle [Blip]


The slapping match between electronic giants (and major rivals) Apple and Samsung took another jump upward, with the former filing suit against the latter to execute an import ban. This would take Samsung products off shelves—a major ...
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Apple Brings the Legal Fight to Samsung's Home Turf [Blip]


Riding on their wave of American court success, Apple has filed suit against Samsung yet again for copying the design of iPhone/iPad in their Galaxy series of phones and tablets, but this time in South Korean court. You know, Samsung's home...
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Google's Getting Subpoenaed by the FTC in Antitrust Probe [Google]


The FTC is getting ready to serve Google with a subpoena in an emerging antitrust case against the search giant. There had been rumblings about a probe for the past few months, and the committee is now moving ahead with the investigation. ...
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Cablevision's Being Sued by Viacom for Unauthorized Video Streaming [Blip]


Yet another lawsuit—this time between Viacom and Cablevision—was started today. Reuters reports that the alleged culprit, Cablevision, is being accused of "unauthorized streaming of [Viacom's] programming on devices such as Appl...
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Apple modifies complaints against Samsung, asserts more patents
Apple’s legal action against Samsung has taken a more aggressive turn, after the Cupertino-based company yesterday amended its complaint against the Korean electronics giant, increasing the ferocity of its copycat claims and asserting more patents a...
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Dolby sues RIM for patent infringement of its music technologies
Announced today, Dolby Laboratories has sued Research in Motion (RIM) for patent infringement in the U.S. and Germany. The company is suing to halt sales of unlicensed BlackBerry and Playbook devices as well as monetary damages for past use.
“Litigation w...
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Plastic Bag Manufacturer Sues Reusable Bag Manufacturer for "Loss of Sales" [Video]






Reusable bag-maker, ChicoBag, isn't some soulless corporation. Its face is Bagmonster, the plastic-bag covered mascot created by founder Andy Keller (seen above). The same cannot be said about its litigi...
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