Leading technology companies including Google Inc. and eBay Inc. are stepping up efforts to block a bill in Congress that Hollywood studios say would clamp down on foreign websites selling pirated movies and other goods.
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama´s healthcare reform law, most likely in March 2012.
Standard & Poor´s roiled global equity, bond, currency and commodity markets when it sent and then corrected an erroneous message to subscribers suggesting France´s top credit rating had been downgraded.
The Justice Department is entitled to records of the Twitter accounts used by three current and former WikiLeaks associates, a federal judge ruled Thursday, dealing a victory to prosecutors in a routine records demand that turned into a fierce court battle over online privacy and free speech.
Facebook may be preparing to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived users when it changed its privacy settings, a person with knowledge of the settlement, who was not authorized to discuss it, told The Times.
Female lawyers aren´t just having a tough time at big law firms these days. They´re starting to avoid them altogether.
The New York Times Co has sued AOL Inc to force its Huffington Post online news website to rename a parenting blog with a similar name to its own.
Brazil police capture Rio de Janeiro´s most wanted alleged drug trafficker as they prepare to occupy city´s largest slum.
PepsiCo Inc., the world´s largest snack maker, may announce a deal as soon as tomorrow to buy Brazilian cookie maker Grupo Mabel for R$800 million ($450m), a person with direct knowledge of the deal said.
A Manhattan lawyer wants over a half-million dollars from an exclusive downtown gym for failing to feed him a proper breakfast.
Ericsson AB, the world´s largest maker of mobile-phone networks, aims to increase revenue from its more than 27,000 patents as devices from toys to energy meters get wireless access, its chief executive officer said.
Yahoo Inc, Microsoft Corp and AOL Inc have set up an advertising partnership as Google and Facebook´s online ad dominance grows.
A constitutional amendment that would have defined a fertilized egg as a person failed on the ballot in Mississippi on Tuesday, dealing the so-called "personhood" movement another blow.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday confirmed he would resign after implementing urgent economic reforms demanded by the European Union, and said Italy must then hold an election, in which he would not stand.
Brazil must hurry up and pass a package of new laws if the 2014 World Cup is to go ahead, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke told the country´s Congress on Tuesday, adding there was "not a day to lose".
Office rents in Brazil´s biggest city, Sao Paulo, jumped to a record in the third quarter, underscoring a squeeze in supply and a property boom that is showing no signs of abating, a report by real estate market consultants Cushman & Wakefield showed Tuesday.
Putting a face and a name for the first time to accusations of sexual harassment against the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, a woman stepped forward on Monday to say that Mr. Cain made an unwanted physical advance on her 14 years ago when he was the chief of the National Restaurant Association.
The director Julie Taymor, a key creator of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," sued the producers of that $75m show in federal court on Tuesday, claiming that they were profiting from her creative contributions without compensating her.
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich rose to prominence revealing almost nothing about how he acquired his power and wealth. In a courtroom here, his cone of silence is being dismantled.
A jury found Michael Jackson´s doctor guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of the King of Pop.
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