Tag: Legal

Google Sides With Yahoo In Email Privacy Dispute
Quite often, a Yahoo loss works out to be a Google win, and it would come as no surprise to see the second company make the first fight its own legal battles.  But Google -...
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Google, Yahoo Countersue Xerox Over Patent Claims
Two months ago, Xerox sued Google and Yahoo for patent infringement, and the two defendants haven't responded by pulling out their checkbooks.  They've instead taken the in...
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Viacom Cheers Release Of More YouTube Documents
Today, another nine exhibits from the Viacom-YouTube were released, and while Google will no doubt get around to spinning the documents its own way, Viacom has already had a go....
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Tagged.com Hit With $650,000 Fine
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has announced, social network Tagged, has agreed to pay a fine of $650,000 for sending millions of deceptive emails in a 2009 campa...
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Kentucky Sues Full Tilt Poker To Recover Gamblers
The Common Wealth of Kentucky is once again going after the online gambling industry and has filed a lawsuit in Franklin Circuit Court against a number of online gambling operat...
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Developer Shares Story of Being Threatened by Facebook for Crawling
Pete Warden, a former software engineer at Apple, who is now working on his own start-up,...
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FCC Loses Net Neutrality Battle Against Comcast
News broke today that the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against the FCC in a net...
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ConnectU Founders Claim Facebook Fight Not Over
After a false start or two, it appeared that an argument about the founding of Facebook was resolved in 2008, with an out-of-court settlement ending the quarrel between Facebook...
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DOJ Supports AP Digital News Registry
The Department of Justice said today it supports a proposal by the Associated Press (AP) to develop and operate a voluntary news registry to manage the licensing and online dist...
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eBay Wins Tiffany Case (Again)
We're not taking sides here, but April Fools' Day seems like an appropriate time for some lawyers representing Tiffany to find out that they've wasted over a year and a half of...
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Google, Microsoft Part of Coalition to Get Privacy Law Updated
A coalition that includes Google and Microsoft is aiming to get the Electronic Communications Privacy Act updated to reflect the needs of today's technologically fast-paced worl...
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FBI Arrests Man Who Made YouTube Threat Against Cantor
A Philadelphia man has been arrested and charged for threatening to kill Republican Party Whip Eric Cantor in a video on YouTube, according to the FBI. Norman Le...
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Justin Bieber’s Manager Arrested for Not Tweeting Quickly Enough
Justin Bieber's manager was arrested today, and WebProNews talked to his lawyer as they awaited arraignment. Back in November, the...
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FTC Considers Updating Online Child Privacy Law
The Federal Trade Commission is considering revising rules surrounding the online collection of children's personal information due to the growing popularity of mobile Internet...
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Google Wins Trademark Infringement Case
The European Court of Justice has ruled in Google's favor with regards to a case Louis Vuitton brought against the search giant.  According to the ECJ, Google did not viola...
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