Facebook Inc., the social networking Web site, agreed with 49 states to adopt a new set of online safety standards to better protect children online.
A nonprofit digital library has successfully fought an FBI attempt to seize information about one of its users, and is now calling on other groups to challenge government agencies from obtaining online customer information without a judge´s order.
Archer Daniels Midland Co., the world´s largest grain processor, asked the European Union´s highest court to throw out or reduce a 39.7 million euro ($61 million) antitrust fine, arguing it´s unjust.
Credit Suisse Group denied allegations that it made improper gains from trading South Korean companies´ overseas convertible bonds.
The Starr Foundation charity claims in a lawsuit that American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Martin Sullivan misrepresented “multibillion dollar losses” in AIG´s portfolio of credit-default swaps.
State Street, the largest money manager for institutions, may have to pay more than 12 times the $US625 million ($665 million) it set aside for damages from lawsuits over losses from subprime-mortgage investments made for pension funds.
The former New England Patriots´ employee has sent the league eight videos that the team secretly shot of opposing teams´ signal-calling between 2000 and 2002, but missing is a purported tape of Rams´.
Microsoft is not pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo, chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday. Gates said in Tokyo that the company put "a lot of effort" in the talks with Yahoo and had decided that the two should pursue "independent paths."
An ACLU lawyer tells the New York Times that the problem with the death penalty is not the method of execution, but rather “poor people getting lousy lawyers.”
The US House Judiciary Committee Tuesday voted to issue a subpoena to compel Vice President Dick Cheney´s chief of staff David Addington to testify about a recently released Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel memorandum
Vodafone scored its first deal to sell Apple Inc´s iPhone after the UK group lost out to Telefonica´s O2 to sell it in Britain.
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of children´s books, won a U.K. lawsuit brought against a picture agency that sold photographs of her son to a British tabloid.
A federal judge presiding over a corporate spying suit against News Corp. said the company could lose the case worth hundreds of millions of dollars if Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch does not testify about what he knew.
A federal appeals court upheld the 160-month prison sentence handed down to a former financial news television personality who admitted to fraud, with the court saying the sentence was reasonable.
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. asked a federal judge to block the Chicago Transit Authority from removing advertisements for its "Grand Theft Auto IV" video game.
Viacom Inc.´s Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Co. and other members of the Motion Picture Association of America settled a lawsuit against a Web site they accused of illegally posting copyrighted movies.
The U.S. "war on drugs" disproportionately targets urban minority neighborhoods with African Americans being arrested and imprisoned on drug charges at much higher rates, according to a pair of reports released on Monday by rights groups.
French prosecutors suspect engineering giant Alstom, builder of power stations and high-speed trains, of bribing foreign officials to win contracts, a judicial source said Tuesday.
Amnesty International has accused Ethiopian troops of committing war atrocities during their mission to support the U.N.-backed government of Somalia.
Microsoft Corp and South Korea´s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co have agreed to build a music and information system to debut in cars sold in North America in 2010, the companies said on Tuesday.
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