Reforming the entire health care system may be easier than doing everything Vivek Kundra says he wants to do when it comes to reforming the government’s computer systems.
As the organization responsible for overseeing Internet domains prepares to expand the number of top-level domains available, Al Gore is advocating for a special domain to promote environmental awareness.
A lawmaker in California wants to force Google Earth and similar services to blur images of so-called "soft targets" like schools, hospitals, churches and government buildings to protect them from terrorists. Assemblyman Joel Anderson, a Republican from San Diego, said he decided to introduce his bill after reading reports suggesting that terrorists used online map imagery to plan attacks in Mumbai and elsewhere.
President Obama on Tuesday nominated Julius Genachowski as the nation´s top telecommunications regulator, picking a campaign advisor who has divided his career between Washington, D.C., political jobs and working as an Internet executive.
When even U2 sees the plug pulled on a real estate project, you know things are bad. Bono wants to save the world. But can the U2 front man save his homeland?
Blockbuster Inc., the world’s largest movie-rental chain, hired the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP to explore a possible bankruptcy filing, a person familiar with the situation said. Blockbuster fell as much as 86 percent yesterday before trading was halted.
A multi-million dollar advertising campaign waged by a controversial mining executive to elect a West Virginia Supreme Court judge to preside over cases his company had before the court may push the U.S. Supreme Court to act. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Tuesday called the case one of the most "extreme" of its kind that the high court has ever considered. The situation fit Justice Potter Stuart´s infamous definition of obscenity, Stevens said, "I know it when I see it."
As many as 250 Dresdner Kleinwort bankers are preparing legal action to recover tens of millions of pounds after the German bank´s new owner reneged on bonus payments.
In General Electric Company v. Varig S Aviação Aérea Rio-Grandense, the Superior Court of Justice in Brazilia, Brazil allowed the recognition (homologação) of a US judgment issued by the New York Southern District Court. The Brazilian decision was dated November 5, 2008 but was only published on December 11, 2008.
Citigroup Inc.’s government-induced board shakeup may herald an era of Washington influence at some of the nation’s biggest companies, as the Obama administration shows its willingness to force change at the top of banks that resort to taxpayer-funded rescue packages.
The Guinea-Bissau president was assassinated a day after a powerful explosion killed the head of the west African country´s military, the prime minister said.
Norton Rose is advising key client HSBC, fielding a team under London corporate partner Martin Scott. Corporate partners Nick Adams and Chris Randall, employment partner David Cohen and tax specialist Dominic Stuttaford are also acting, while corporate partner Richard Crosby is leading a team in Hong Kong.
The payoff for the executive blamed for losing HBOS billions was under investigation yesterday after lawyers raised questions about his contractual entitlements.
Court Upholds Forum Selection Clause in Web Hosting Agreement and
Arizona District Court Rules Website Targeting Plaintiff Does Not Create Jurisdiction in Plaintiff’s Home State.
Johnson & Johnson, which has spent at least $68.7 million to resolve U.S. lawsuits filed by women who suffered blood clots, heart attacks or strokes after using the Ortho Evra birth-control patch, agreed to settle similar claims in three Canadian provinces.
The two-term city councilman, now seeking a new office, has drawn admiration and animosity in his district.
The more they dig, the more bodies they find.
Albuquerque, N.M., police are preparing for what they say could be the biggest homicide investigation in the city´s history as investigators look into who buried bodies -- 11 so far, including a first trimester fetus -- in the ground in a wide expanse of desert mesa.
On the same day last month that a federal judge in St. Paul threw out hundreds of lawsuits against the maker of a faulty heart device, a man entered a nearby hospital to have one of those flawed products surgically removed.
The UBS memo was blunt: the "Swiss solution" could help affluent Americans.
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