MAR
24
2011

Former Goldman Sachs programmer sentenced in federal criminal case

Goldman Sachs’ high-frequency trading system generates millions of dollars in annual profits for the firm.

MAR
24
2011

Investigator urged extortion charges for Gibson´s ex-girlfriend

Lead detective says the district attorney´s office rejected his findings that Oksana Grigorieva and her lawyers made ´implied threats´ to ruin the actor´s career.

MAR
24
2011

Worst wedding video ever?

A bride makes her grand entrance but the cameraman gets a shot of the grass.

MAR
24
2011

Five firms get call for AT&T/T-Mobile antitrust, regulatory work

Sullivan & Cromwell and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz are serving as lead corporate counsel on AT&T´s surprise $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA, while five more Am Law 200 firms are handling the antitrust and regulatory aspects of a deal that figures to receive close scrutiny from U.S. regulators.

MAR
24
2011

Get out of jail free card costs $100M in Georgia

Relations between Georgia and Israel appear to be strained because of a scandal involving Israeli businessman, Rony Fuchs.

MAR
23
2011

Woman suing Carnival: Ship sailed too fast, made me sick

An Indiana Court of Appeals this week took up the case of a woman who claims she got sick on a Carnival cruise ship because it was going too fast.

MAR
23
2011

Apple iTunes: Judge orders Steve Jobs to appear

Apple´s CEO will have to answer questions in a six-year-old iTunes monopoly suit.

MAR
23
2011

Judge places California´s global warming program on hold

A San Francisco superior court judge has put California´s sweeping plan to curb greenhouse gas pollution on hold, saying the state did not adequately evaluate alternatives to its cap-and-trade program.

MAR
23
2011

E-books: New bounty for Internet pirates

Internet piracy has dealt heavy blows to the music industry over recent years.

MAR
23
2011

Israel former president gets seven years for rape

Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav was today sentenced to seven years behind bars after being convicted on charges of rape and other sexual assault offences, Israeli media said.

MAR
23
2011

Canberra to publish draft law on issuing of covered bonds

Australia´s government will publish this month draft legislation that will allow domestic banks to issue covered bonds, diversifying their funding base and setting the stage for lower borrowing costs, a government spokesman said today.

MAR
23
2011

Berlin court rules Google Street View is legal in Germany

A Berlin court has ruled that Google Street View is legal. But that doesn´t mean the lawsuits will end, legal scholars say.

MAR
23
2011

Google patents their "Google doodles"

Google has been awarded a patent for their Google Doodles.

MAR
23
2011

Gall bladder surgery sparks $1.4m lawsuit

A grandmother from D´Aguilar, northwest of Caboolture, is suing the State Government for $1.4 million over a disastrous turn of events that began with routine keyhole surgery to remove her gall bladder.

MAR
22
2011

Brazilian insurance worker awarded £142,000 over ´SpongeBob SquarePants´ taunts

A Brazilian office worker has won £142,000 in compensation after colleagues nicknamed her "SpongeBob SquarePants", after the cartoon character, because of her accent.

MAR
22
2011

US high court steps out of Eminem´s royalty suit

The U.S. Supreme Court will not involve itself in a fight between rapper Eminem´s former production company and Universal Music Group over downloads of the entertainer´s songs and ringtones.

MAR
22
2011

Competing bills muddy the waters over oil spills

Two competing bills are adding to the confusion around regulation of Russia´s burgeoning offshore oil industry, to the frustration of both oil companies and environmentalists.

MAR
22
2011

Journalists in court over murder trial interview

A Madrid magistrate has formally accused the presenter of a popular Spanish television chat show and nine other journalists of possible "coercion" in connection with the interviewing of the wife of a pedophile who was convicted last week of murdering a five-year-old girl.

MAR
22
2011

Hostelry sector jobs escape side-effects of new tobacco law

Spain´s new anti-tobacco laws do not seem to be having the adverse effect that the hostelry industry had feared — at least as far as employment is concerned.

MAR
21
2011

A proposed privacy law could help as well as hurt America´s web companies

The outcry over internet firms´ habit of surreptitiously tracking web surfers´ activities has clearly resonated inside the White House.

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