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Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Others Unite To Fight NYS Ad Targeting Bill; FTC Ending Comments On Regs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 Apr 2008 03:47 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), AOL (NYSE: TWX), Facebook, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and others have banded together to fight a proposed bill in the New York State Legislature that…

Wal-Mart Going Hardline on DRM-Free Online Music Store; SonyBMG and WMG Holdouts - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 08 Apr 2008 10:41 PM PST

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), whose online music efforts haven’t exactly caught fire among consumers, is now trying a hardline stance on MP3 downloads, ditching Windows DRM-laden downloads that it used to…

Google Et Al Must Try Harder On Privacy, EU Says - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Apr 2008 03:24 AM PST

Europe’s Article 29 Working Party on data privacy, which advises the European Commission executive, has concluded search engines should reduce the time for which they store users’ records to six…

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Updated: Weinstein ‘Aufs’ NBCU; Takes Bravo Franchise Show ‘Project Runway’ To Lifetime - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 07 Apr 2008 12:49 PM PST

Project Runway, the competition-reality show that launched a genre on Bravo, is flipping houses—unless NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) gets a court to back up its claim to the show. The…

Record Labels Seek $9 Million From Baidu, $7.5 Million From Sohu For Piracy Charges - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 07 Apr 2008 07:00 AM PST

Now that the Beijing Intermediate People’s Court has accepted the copyright infringement suits brought by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the major record labels, the amounts…

Facebook On Verge Of Settling ConnectU Lawsuit: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 07 Apr 2008 06:08 AM PST

Facebook is close to settling a lingering legal nuisance over its origin, reports Brad Stone at Bits. The company was sued by the founders of ConnectU, a Harvard-borne social net,…

Attributor Raises $12 Million Third Round To Help Protect Copyright - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 02 Apr 2008 12:10 PM PST

Attributor, a start-up that helps content owners profit from plagiarism of their work, has raised a $12 million third round from Jafco Ventures and Turner Broadcasting, along with return backers…

IOC Exec Warns China Against Internet Censorship During Olympics - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 01 Apr 2008 07:47 PM PST

With the Beijing Olympics roughly four months away, Kevan Gosper, vice chairman of the IOC coordinating commission, is warning organizers that the internet must be open during the games and…

IAC: Getting Back To Business… - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 31 Mar 2008 05:11 AM PST

Congrats on the court win, now about that share price. During the trial, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) lawyer Kevin Abrams badgered Barry Diller about the company’s poor performance, but the…

Highlights Of Delaware Ruling Maintaining Diller’s Rights To Vote Liberty’s IAC Stock - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 28 Mar 2008 02:56 PM PST

Delaware Chancery Court Judge Stephen Lamb delivered a 79-page memorandum opinion and order late Friday afternoon in favor of Barry Diller and IAC (NSDQ: IACI) in a complex legal dispute…

Delaware Judge Rules For IAC’s Diller In Court Fight With Liberty Media; Read Ruling Here - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 28 Mar 2008 02:26 PM PST

A Delaware chancery court judge has ruled in favor of Barry Diller and his rights to vote Liberty Media’s (NSDQ: LINTA) proxy on IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) proposed spinoff—a defeat for…

Diller-Malone Legal Battle In Links - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 28 Mar 2008 02:25 PM PST

A Delaware chancery court judge has ruled in favor of Barry Diller, allowing him to keep his voting rights for Liberty Media’s (NSDQ: LINTA) proxy on IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) proposed…

Inside The Deals: Texas Justice May Give Clear Channel Another Shot - 0 Comments
Posted By Steve Rosenbush - Fri 28 Mar 2008 12:00 AM PST

A rough bit of Texas justice may well give the imperiled $19.5 billion Clear Channel (NYSE: CCU) buyout another shot at life. A state judge ruled on March 26 that…

Updated: Judge Awards Temporary Restraining Order Against Banks In Clear Channel Case - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 27 Mar 2008 04:23 AM PST

That was quick: A Judge in Bexar County, TX has granted a temporary restraining order against the banks funding the Clear Channel (NYSE: CCU) buyout, saying they must not try…

Digimarc Sells ID Systems Unit To L-1 Identity For $250 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 24 Mar 2008 09:45 AM PST

Digital watermarker Digimarc (NSDQ: DMRC) has announced the sale of its ID Systems business to L-1 identity, a provider of ID and security services, for $250 million in cash and…

Latest Guessing Game: Who Will Replace FCC Chairman Kevin Martin? - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 23 Mar 2008 08:20 PM PST

Among the many decisions facing the next president of the United States: the appointment of a new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. The Hollywood Reporter takes a look at…

Updated: Guitar Hero In Court: Gibson Sues Retailers; Activision Responds; EA, Harmonix Sued - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 21 Mar 2008 10:37 AM PST

The spat between guitar maker Gibson, and Guitar Hero maker Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) escalated this week, as Gibson filed suit against several retailers in hopes of stopping the game’s sale.…

Wireless Spectrum Winners Are Revealed; Google Bids But Verizon Wins - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 20 Mar 2008 12:19 PM PST

The FCC finally unveiled the winners of the federal spectrum auction that closed earlier this week and raised a record-breaking $19.6 billion. The FCC said Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) was…

Chinese Authorities Punishes Tudou and 61 Other Online Video Sites for Violating Regulations - 0 Comments
Posted By Pearl Research - Thu 20 Mar 2008 07:23 AM PST

In China, the expected has happened: The State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) has announced the results of its inspection on numerous online video sites, which was carried…

Ebooks Catalog OverDrive Adds MP3 Audiobooks; Borders Signs On First - 3 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 18 Mar 2008 09:01 PM PST

Ebooks distributor OverDrive is expanding its online catalog to include MP3 audiobooks, the company told us. Publishers who are participating in OverDrive’s audiobooks program include Random House Audio, Blackstone Audiobooks,…

CNET Will Appeal Court Ruling On Jana - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 17 Mar 2008 02:10 PM PST

As it hinted last week, CNET (NSDQ: CNET) says it will appeal the Delaware Chancery Court ruling allowing Jana Partners to nominate a slate of board candidates. Since the ruling…

Amazon-Pepsi Music Giveaway Deal Raises Retailers Concerns; Amazon Logo Taken Off - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 16 Mar 2008 09:26 PM PST

Surprised this didn’t come out before: Pepsi tied up with Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) for SuperBowl earlier this year, to give away 1 billion free MP3 songs though Amazon’s digital music…

Liberty Media-IAC: Diller On The Stand: Video Clips - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 14 Mar 2008 05:28 PM PST

Via a special arrangement with CourtroomLive ... a small taste of Barry Diller’s testimony this week in Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) v. IAC (NSDQ: IACI) in Delaware Chancery Court. These…

Liberty Media-IAC: Diller On The Stand: Part III: Abrams Presses Diller, Then Debates With Judge - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 14 Mar 2008 07:22 AM PST

Note: We’ll be posting video clips this afternoon. The morning session of Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) v. IAC (NSDQ: IACI) in Delaware Chancery Court is in progress and we’re…

Liberty Media-IAC: Diller Thought Malone Would Apologize For WSJ Article - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 13 Mar 2008 01:08 PM PST

From the Liberty Media-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) trial ... Liberty attorney Kevin Abrams asked Barry Diller if, as a sailor, he understood what it meant when the Wall Street Journal published…