In the race for digital advertising dollars, Google has been the clear winner, with its ability to customize advertisements based on what you search for. But Facebook, which customizes ads based on who you and your friends are, hopes to be a contender.
Europe may be a financial disaster and a faded military force, but in at least one arena it has emerged as champ: Regulators here are challenging the power of America´s technology titans. And they are winning.
James Holmes made his first public appearance as an alleged killer on Monday, shambling into a Colorado courtroom with a bearing more like that of a teenage delinquent than the comic-book supervillain he reportedly fancied himself to be.
A court on Monday rejected a request to call President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to testify in the trial of three female punk rockers who derided Putin in a protest in the country´s main cathedral, their lawyer said.
A global super-rich elite had at least $21 trillion (£13tn) hidden in secret tax havens by the end of 2010, according to a major study.
A court in China has rejected an appeal by Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei against a tax evasion fine, his lawyer says.
Brazil may retaliate against the U.S. in October if it determines that the U.S. isn´t honoring an agreement over cotton subsidies to American farmers.
Putin crackdown on Russian dissent highlighted by case of feminist band arrested in March for performing ´punk prayer´ in church.
Johnson & Johnson and federal prosecutors have reached a deal that would settle investigations into the company´s marketing practices for as much as $2.2 billion, including a roughly $400 million criminal fine for the illegal promotion of the antipsychotic Risperdal, according to people familiar with the matter.
Eastman Kodak Co has lost an appeal of a patent dispute over digital image preview technology with Apple Inc and Research In Motion Ltd, which could set back the onetime photography giant´s efforts to raise money in bankruptcy by selling patents.
An Austrian court has banned the most traditional Alpine feature after Lederhosen and yodeling after neighbours complained that a cowherd´s bells were so loud they couldn´t sleep.
Microsoft chose a good time to tell the world it had screwed up. When it announced at the beginning of the month that its $6.3 billion purchase of online advertising company AQuantive Inc. five years ago had been a near-total loss, the company was riding a wave of good will induced by its announcement of its new Surface tablet.
New Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer´s compensation package could total more than $70 million in salary, bonuses, restricted stock and stock options over five years, according to a regulatory filing made by the company Thursday.
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay as much as $2.2 billion to resolve an investigation into its marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal, according to a published report.
Mayer Brown filed a breach of contract lawsuit yesterday in District of Columbia Superior Court against former client Pacific Seafood Group, claiming unpaid fees in excess of $5 million.
A new claim in a former hotel maid´s civil suit against Dominique Strauss-Kahn based on what his lawyers say is "an obscure, never-before-interpreted New York City law" should be dismissed as unconstitutionally vague, they argue in court papers.
Citing widely held concerns voiced by former Dewey & LeBoeuf partners, the bankrupt law firm´s chief restructuring officer said in an e-mail sent to partners Thursday that the deadline for agreeing to a proposed $103.6 million settlement has been bumped back two weeks and that revisions to the original plan will be announced next week.
Relatives of three American citizens killed in drone strikes in Yemen last year filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against four senior national security officials on Wednesday.
Regulators are scrutinising relationships that banks such as HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and Crédit Agricole may have had with a former Barclays trader.
A Tunisian military court sentenced ex-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in absentia to life in prison today for complicity in the deaths of protesters during the popular uprising which led to his ouster last year, the country´s official news agency reported.
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