Seattle's two daily newspapers have agreed to settle a legal dispute that had threatened to shut down the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The Seattle Times Co. and Hearst Corp., which publishes the Post-Intelligencer, announced the settlement of the...
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Microsoft has urged antitrust officials to contemplate scuttling Google's design to buy DoubleClick, an online advertising company. Microsoft has argued that Google's proposed acquisition of Internet advertising company DoubleClick raises...
The head of the United Automobile Workers union, who came under criticism recently by some members for not taking a firm enough posture against wage and benefit cuts, made clear that workers are done making sacrifices. The union leader, Ron...
Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday sued rival PC maker Acer Inc. in a Texas court for allegedly infringing on five separate patents. HP has sought to block sales of some Acer computers in the US, on the grounds that its Taiwanese rival had violated...
German utility E.ON has received a significant boost in its effort to take over Spanish power company Endesa. Recently Endesa's board has recommended shareholders accept E.ON's latest improved offer. E.ON has offered €42.4 billion, or $56.3...
The California based manufacturer, Leegin Creative Leather Products Inc. has challenged a 1911 Supreme Court ruling that automatically classifies agreements to set minimum prices as anticompetitive. The case was filed when Kay's Kloset, a...
A US District Court judge in Virginia has stunned the VOIP market by issuing a permanent injunction against Vonage barring it from basing its service on three of five patents owned by Verizon. The permanent injunction was issued on Vonage using the.
Oracle Corp. has recently filed lawsuit against its competitor SAP on the allegations that its German competitor has clandestinely and illegally acquired proprietary materials from the Redwood City giant's customer support Web site. Oracle has...
Japan's Toshiba Corp. and South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. has recently announced that they have signed a cross-licence deal to end a series of lawsuits and countersuits on patents for NAND-type flash memory chips. These to firms were involved...
The US Department of Transportation has tentatively approved Virgin America's plan to reconfigure its ownership and management structure. The department said that the carrier could earn its operating certificate if it meets certain conditions,...
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