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Craigslist Fires Back: Of Tainted Love & Ulterior Motives - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:08 PM PST

Craigslist has fired back in a late night blog post, following eBay’s (NSDQ: EBAY) lawsuit announcement this afternoon: “Coming from a shareholder that viewsCraigslist as a prime competitor, filing suit…

eBay Finally Loses Cool: Sues Craigslist Over “Stake Dilution” - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 01:39 PM PST

eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) and Craigslist, never the happy brethren, have barely tolerated each other over the years since the former bought a stake in the online classifieds phenom in 2004.…

Clear Channel Buyout: Banks Offer Binding Arbitration; PE Buyers Reject - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:46 AM PST

The acquisition of Clear Channel (NYSE: CCU) by two private equity firms, Thomas H. Lee and Bain Capital Partners, continues to play out in the courts. The key issue, as…

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FCC Hearing on Broadband Practices: Free, Regulation, and the Bible - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 17 Apr 2008 07:47 PM PST

FCC’s much anticipated hearing on broadband access and management practices happened today, and a range of voices were heard at the hearing. At stake, according to the speakers: copyrights, Internet…

FCC Duped By Google In Auction: Republicans - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 17 Apr 2008 10:16 AM PST

There’s quite a bit being written on the remarks of some Republican senators that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) “gamed” the 700 MHz auction, and “duped” the FCC...Bloomberg has the quotes. Their…

Vivendi Games-Activision Merger Approved By EC; Claims Of ‘Unfair’ Music Competition Brushed Aside - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:33 AM PST

The European Commission has cleared the $18.9 billion merger of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) and Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) games unit on several anti-trust grounds. The EC began a routine investigation in…

UK Music Biz Would Rather Tax iPods Than Legitimize Format Shifting - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Apr 2008 08:26 AM PST

The British record industry has challenged a UK government proposal that would legalize “format shifting” from CD to gadgets like iPods - and instead demanded portable music device makers pay…

Expected Flood Of Opinion Ends With A Trickle: Proposed FTC Behavioral Rules Comment Period Closes - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 11 Apr 2008 05:16 PM PST

By the time the Federal Trade Commission stopped accepting public comments on its proposed behavioral targeting rules Friday afternoon, officials had only 31 submissions displayed on its website. Hardly the…

TiVo Gets Another Patent Win; DISH Network To Take It To Supreme Court - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:20 PM PST

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has won another round… The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C has denied EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH) a rehearing of its loss to…

EU Parliament Warns Against ISP Monitoring In Music Piracy Fight - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:48 AM PST

This could put the cat amongst the pigeons. European Parliament members have voted in favour of outlawing the kind of ISP disconnection policy the French government introduced to fight illegal…

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…

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…