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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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Loeb Calls Again for Thompson Firing From Yahoo, as Former eBay Boss Supports Him

As expected, activist shareholder Daniel Loeb of Third Point released a new letter on the bio controversy he set off at Yahoo, again calling for the firing of its CEO, Scott Thompson.
“It seems farcical to us that the Board will most likely spend m...
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*LEGAL



*LEGAL
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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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They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don't They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board

Earlier today, Yahoo’s persistent thorn, activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point poison-penned another letter to the board of the Silicon Valley Internet company, demanding that Yahoo fire its new CEO Scott Thompson, as well as director Patti ...
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Nevada Has Its Priorities FAIL



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How Did a Phantom CS Degree Get on CEO's Bio in SEC Filings? Yahoo's Not Saying.

Back in early 2008 when Scott Thompson got the job as president of eBay’s PayPal, the regulatory filing accurately listed his educational pedigree:
“Mr. Thompson holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Stonehill College.”
The eBay filin...
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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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Date set for Nicollette Sheridan’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ retrial
Nicollette Sheridan will have yet another day in court: The same judge who declared a mistrial in her wrongful termination
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‘Bachelor’ threatened with racial discrimination lawsuit, experts weigh in
News broke Tuesday that Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson, two African-American football players from Nashville, are holding a press conference
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Twitter Calls for Patent Wars Truce [Twitter]





Twitter is calling for an industry-wide armistice in the intellectual property wars. Today it announced the Innovator's Patent Agreement (IPA), a pact that it will not use employees' patents for offensive ...
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Appeals Court Rules Computer Code Is Not "Property" [Crime]





Sergey Aleynikov, an ex-Goldman-Sachs programmer, spent a year in prison for downloading source code of the firm's high-speed trading software before his sentence was overturned in February. Today, the cou...
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Innovation meets reality: Airbnb might owe San Francisco some hotel taxes
In this day and age it’s easy to get swept up in all of the innovation and disruption that is happening thanks to technology, but at the end of the day, Silicon Valley is not immune to the law.
We found that out today when the SF Chronicle reported ...
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Does HTC's Face Unlock Patent Mean Android In-Fighting? [Htc]





HTC has been awarded a patent for a technology that would let you unlock your smartphone or tablet with your face. However, Face Unlock is already a feature on Android that first appeared on Ice Cream Sand...
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Your Expired Groupons Are Valid Again Thanks to $8.5 Million Court Ruling [Groupon]





Remember that deal you purchased on Groupon -$30 for a $50 laser hair removal? It expired, and your unibrow has grown out of control. But you're in luck. Groupon has agreed to pay an $8.5 million settlemen...
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Mistrial declared in Nicollette Sheridan case
The deliberation was apparently too much to bear for the jury in Nicollette Sheridan’s wrongful termination lawsuit against the makers
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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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Apple Subpoenaed by FTC Over Google Search on iOS Devices [Google]





The FTC has subpoenaed Apple as part of an antitrust probe of Google, in order to determine how search is incorporated into iOS devices. The request for information specifically asks for details about agre...
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Nicollette Sheridan’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ trial: Judge drops battery charge against creator Marc Cherry
The battery charge in Nicollette Sheridan’s trial against Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry has been dropped, per judge Elizabeth Allen
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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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Nicollette Sheridan’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ trial: A round-up of essential takeaways so far
Nicollette Sheridan’s wrongful termination and battery case against Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, ABC, and ABC Studios has continued this
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‘Desperate Housewives’ trial: Lawyer testifies that Nicollette Sheridan was afraid she’d lose her job
Both Nicollette Sheridan and Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry have finished their juicy testimony in the actress’ wrongful termination suit that’s
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‘Desperate Housewives’ trial: Creator says Nicollette Sheridan let go because of ‘unprofessional behavior’
This morning at Nicollette Sheridan’s ongoing wrongful termination trial in downtown Los Angeles, Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry took the
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Nicollette Sheridan at ‘Desperate Housewives’ trial: Creator Marc Cherry ‘hit me upside the head’
Former Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan took the stand in Los Angeles Thursday as the first witness in a trial
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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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Here's the Letter Congress Sent to Apple Asking What the Hell Is Going On with Path [Apple]





Path messed up. The app was collecting address book data without user permission and it pissed off a lot of people. Now even Congress is getting involved, wondering what the hell happened. Congress has sen...
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Google Plans to Snatch 2.25 Per Cent of Every iPhone Sale [Google]





There have been plenty of legal wranglings between Motorola and Apple, and with Google buying Motorola that doesn't show signs of stopping. Now, Google plans to grab 2.25 per cent of every iPhone sale beca...
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Stephen Fry on a Generation of Technophobic Judges [Video]





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How a Single Student Is Transforming Facebook's Privacy Policy in Europe [Facebook]





To most people that know him, Max Schrems is a typical law student from Austria. To Facebook, he is a massive pain in the ass. Outsmarting their attorneys, bombarding them with legal complaints and forming...
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From the Life-Is-Unfair Files: You're Welcome, Winklevii. Love, Zuck.

Persistence — even if it is the whiny, likely undeserved, lunkheaded legal version of it — certainly pays off.
But you have to marvel at the bizarre karma going on, given that my favorite matching pair of digital ottomans, Cameron and Tyler W...
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Motorola Succeeds In Blocking iCloud, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 in Germany [Apple]





It's been a successful morning for Motorola in Germany. So far they've managed to secure a permanent injunction against Apple's iCloud, as well as seeing the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and first-gen 3G iPad remo...
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French Court Fines Google For Offering Its Maps For Free [Google]





A French court has ruled that Google is guilty of abusing the dominance of Google Maps, and so has ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company. More »



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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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The Newest Internet Law to Worry About [Internet]





Following in the proud, wide, footsteps of SOPA and PIPA, the Senate is set to vote on another internet regulation bill this week—and the web is worrying already. Justified? Maybe. Unfortunately, the...
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It's Time for Apple to Stop Patent Trolling [Apple]





Intellectual property is important. There's no denying that. But there's a line between protecting yourself and just trying to kill everybody around you. It's one Apple has already crossed, and it's not do...
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Grooveshark Is Being Sued By All Four Major Music Labels [Music]





That questionably legal music service Grooveshark is in hot water again. EMI, the one big music label it has a licensing deal with, is suing its ass. More »






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Advice On Car Insurance Australia For You
On the roads of Australia, there are thousands of cars. No matter how carefully driven, there is always a possibility that danger could strike, as it may be outside your control. To cover such possibilities, policies from car insurance Australia could pro...
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Yahoo Okays Initial Term Sheet to Sell Stakes Back to Asian Partners -- While Also Hoping to Keep PE Firms in Fray

Yahoo shareholders felt a little giddier earlier this week, when it seemed as if the company had finally decided to make a deal with its Asian partners.
But the happiest crew might end up being the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s outside counsel, S...
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MUSIC PIRACY


MUSIC PIRACY
in 1923, file sharing was legal
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It’s a Legit Question
Slightly poor taste to put it on a licence plate, but better to ask than assume.
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Airbnb Hires Former Yahoo Legal Eagle Belinda Johnson as General Counsel

Airbnb, the San Francisco online vacation rentals start-up, said it has hired a key former Yahoo lawyer, Belinda Johnson, as its new general counsel.
The legal issues at Airbnb are both interesting and challenging, all around the new arena of global shar...
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Motorola Wins Europe-Wide Sales Ban Against iOS Devices [Apple]





Apple just found itself on the receiving-end of some legal hurt. Motorola has successfully sued Apple in Germany, paving the way for a Europe-wise sales ban on basically all iOS devices. Better get those A...
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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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Grooveshark Will Soon Be Destroyed [Music]





Remember Grooveshark, the magical website that let you stream any song you wanted, in high quality, for free? Did you ever wonder how such a thing managed to avoid legal annihilation? Trick question! It ha...
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Feds Shut Down Mortgage Scammers on Bing/Yahoo
The online advertising mortgage scam investigation announced last week by the Treasury Department involves Bing and Yahoo, as well as Google. the agency has revealed. The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTA...
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Semi-Legal Bluetooth Call Recorder: Did The Wire Teach Us Nothing? [Bluetooth]





Your smartphone can do many things, but because of legal restrictions, it can't easily be used to record a conversation. This Bluetooth handset happily will, though, documenting over 340 hours of calls, wh...
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To combat SOPA, Tumblr generates 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives
To combat the ill-conceived “Stop Online Piracy Act”, or commonly referred to as “SOPA” on the Internet, Tumblr asked its users to make phone calls to their U.S. Representatives to make their feelings known.
Tumblr users complied, ...
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Throw out your pen, DocuSign Ink for iOS lets you sign docs
Signing documents is something that I really don’t enjoy doing, especially when there’s twenty pages that I have to initial first. In a digital age, we can sometimes go weeks without picking up a pen.
DocuSign Ink for iOS is an app that makes...
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