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Microsoft launches global antipiracy campaign
News update Software giant unveils new initiative that cuts across 49 countries in six continents, in bid to step up anti-piracy efforts.
Tags: Piracy, Microsoft Corp., Asia, Piracy, Training, International Data Corp., Singapore, software company, Indonesia, intellectual property
Facebook adopts new privacy policy
News The social-networking site hopes that policy revision will make the policy more accessible and easier to understand.
Tags: Privacy, Facebook, Revision, Social Networking, network, Video, general counsel, blog, Privacy
Tiffany appeals ruling in eBay counterfeits case
News Jeweler Tiffany & Co. announces that it is appealing a federal court ruling that eBay is not required under trademark law to police counterfeit listings on its site.
Tags: Legal, Corporate law, Lawsuits, E-commerce, Tiffany & Co. Inc., eBay Inc., Search Engine, intellectual property, general counsel, software
Microsoft gives shareholders 'say on pay'
News Company's board agrees to give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation every three years.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Apple Inc., Compensation, Brad Smith, general counsel, shareholder, analyst, board of directors, board
Intel shakeup gives EMC a longtime chip exec
News Two tech titans are reshuffling their top ranks, with chip bigwig Pat Gelsinger headed from Intel to storage specialist EMC.
Tags: Processors, Business Strategies & Functions, Intel Corp., Paul Otellini, Chip, EMC Corp., Storage, general counsel, Joe Tucci, Processors
Labels pressure Global Gaming for Pirate Bay money
News Trade group says that if Global Gaming acquires The Pirate Bay, it has asked Swedish authorities to order the company to pay the music industry instead of Pirate Bay founders.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, computer, general counsel, copyright law, co-founder, Sweden, File-sharing, founder, record company
US court sides with Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent case
News A federal appeals court says Microsoft does not have to pay damages in a long-running patent case over the MP3 music format.
Tags: Legal, Patents, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Alcatel, general counsel, MP3 music, litigation, Lucent Technologies Inc., blog
Microsoft sues over IM spam, phishing
News Lawsuit alleges that two companies used its Live Messenger service to poach users' contacts for spam and to send them to phishing sites.
Tags: Legal, Instant messaging, Spam and phishing, Phishing, Security Team, Microsoft Windows Live, Spam, Attack, general counsel, Seattle
Google seeks more time in Book Search case
News Google wants 60 more days to find authors and let them choose to opt in or out of a proposed class-action settlement involving Google Book Search.
Tags: Copyright, Author, Google Inc., Settlement, Advertisement, intellectual property, general counsel, credit card company, USA Today, New York Times Co.
Antitrust hearing to draw top tech legal eagles
News Legal counsel for Yahoo, Google, Microsoft will testify at Congressional hearing next week, as lawmakers consider potential effects of a Yahoo-Google search ad deal.
Tags: Antitrust, Search, Internet advertising, Mergers, Acquisitions, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, Brad Smith
S. Korea slaps Intel with US$25M antitrust fine
News Korea Fair Trade Commission says the chip giant had offered rebates to PC makers in South Korea in return for not buying processors from rival Advanced Micro Devices.
Tags: Processors, Antitrust, Intel Corp., PC Company, South Korea, general counsel, processor, Fair Trade Commission, European Commission, Wall Street Journal
Microsoft calls on U.S. Congress to reconsider bailout
News In a statement, general counsel Brad Smith says the measure was "vitally important to the health and preservation of jobs in all sectors of the economy".
Tags: Government, Microsoft Corp., Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, Brad Smith, U.S. House of Representatives, general counsel, DJIA, financial, job
Microsoft slams Google-Yahoo ad deal
News Redmond says the proposed deal between Google and Yahoo could have a negative impact on competition, consumer choice and privacy.
Tags: Internet advertising, Search, Mergers, Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Advertisement, Brad Smith, general counsel
Apple escapes charges in US stock-options probe
News The U.S. Department of Justice will not file charges over stock-option backdating at Apple, as a two-year criminal probe is concluded.
Tags: Legal, Lawsuits, Apple Inc., Security, Backdating, Stock, general counsel, San Jose, shareholder, Wall Street Journal
Microsoft sues Taiwanese mouse maker
News The software maker has filed patent-infringement actions, claiming Taiwan's Primax Electronics refused to license its technology.
Tags: Patents, Software licensing, Keyboards and mice, Microsoft Corp., software company, Mouse, intellectual property, general counsel, Hardware, software
