MAY
8
2008

Facebook adopts new standards to protect children

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.

MAY
8
2008

Digital library challenges FBI´s "national security letters"

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.

MAY
8
2008

Archer Daniels challenges antitrust fine at EU Court

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.

MAY
8
2008

Credit Suisse denies improper gains in South Korea

Credit Suisse Group denied allegations that it made improper gains from trading South Korean companies´ overseas convertible bonds.

MAY
8
2008

Starr Foundation sues AIG Chief Sullivan for fraud over loss

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.

MAY
8
2008

State Street faces subprime legal bill blowout

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.

MAY
8
2008

Matt Walsh sends his tapes to the NFL

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´.

MAY
7
2008

Gates: Microsoft not seeking new Internet partners

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."

MAY
7
2008

Lingering questions surround death penalty representation

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.”

MAY
7
2008

House panel votes to subpoena Cheney aide on DOJ interrogation memo

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

MAY
7
2008

Vodafone to sell Apple´s iPhone

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.

MAY
7
2008

J.K. Rowling wins appeal in law suit over child photos

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.

MAY
6
2008

Report says judge warns News Corp.

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.

MAY
6
2008

TV pundit´s fraud sentence upheld

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.

MAY
6
2008

Removal of ads triggers lawsuit

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.

MAY
6
2008

Film industry settles suit against web site over movie postings

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.

MAY
6
2008

Racial disparities persist in drug arrests

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.

MAY
6
2008

Prosecutors probe Alstom for contract corruption

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.

MAY
6
2008

Amnesty International accuses Ethiopian troops of atrocities in Somalia

Amnesty International has accused Ethiopian troops of committing war atrocities during their mission to support the U.N.-backed government of Somalia.

MAY
6
2008

Microsoft, Hyundai partner for in-car technology

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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