The U.S. lost a bid to limit the amount of information it must turn over to Megaupload.com founder Kim Dotcom, accused of orchestrating the biggest copyright infringement in the country´s history, in his fight against extradition from New Zealand.
Nestle SA, the world´s biggest food company, lost two court rulings over attempts to stop companies from selling rival capsules compatible with Nespresso machines in Germany.
A criminal investigation into the collapse of the brokerage firm MF Global and the disappearance of about $1 billion in customer money is now heading into its final stage without charges expected against any top executives.
A man who claims to own one-half of Facebook and his Ohio attorney have each been sanctioned $1,000 and ordered to turn over a letter from a New York law firm that ostensibly concludes the plaintiff is a fraud.
Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK.
At three o´clock tomorrow afternoon, Judge Marina Syrova, a middle-aged woman with the air of an irate schoolteacher, will enter a small, shabby courtroom in central Moscow and give her verdict in the case of Pussy Riot.
A federal judge overseeing the high-stakes patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. requested that the chief executives of both companies talk one more time to try to settle the case before it is handed to a jury.
U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group L.P. confirmed it and Getty Images Inc.´s management will pay $3.3 billion to acquire the stock-photo agency from Hellman & Friedman LLC.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has no way of leaving his refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London without being arrested, even if Quito grants him asylum shortly, lawyers say.
Starting Wednesday, people who arrived in the United States as children and without documentation can apply to work without fear of deportation, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Tuesday.
After only four hours of deliberation, a federal jury in Burlington, Vt., found an Amish-Mennonite pastor guilty of abetting international parental kidnapping in a widely publicized case involving a same-sex union and religious opponents of homosexuality.
Verizon Wireless and Comcast Corp. - CMCSA have agreed in principle with U.S. antitrust officials to limit joint ventures as a condition for buying airwaves from cable companies, making it likely the deal will be approved early next month, people with knowledge of the negotiations said.
Australia´s highest court has upheld a new government law on mandatory packaging for cigarettes that removes brand colours and logos from packaging.
London-based Standard Chartered Bank agreed to pay $340 million to settle New York state charges that it illegally funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran, even as other probes by federal regulators are continuing.
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment protection against illegal searches when they tracked a suspect´s cell phone using the phone´s global positioning system - GPS signal.
Google Inc has won the right to appeal the granting of class status to thousands of authors suing the search engine company over its ambitious plan to create the world´s largest digital books library.
UBS AG, Switzerland´s largest bank, has sued California billionaire developer Igor Olenicoff for malicious prosecution, charging he pursued a meritless federal lawsuit against it built on lies in part to "deflect blame" from his own offshore tax sins.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform filed a civil complaint today against Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., just over a month after the House of Representatives voted to find Holder in contempt of Congress for not turning over documents about the botched Operation Fast and Furious gun-smuggling sting operation.
Google Inc. said Monday that it will reduce Motorola Mobility´s workforce by about 20% to help streamline the unprofitable wireless-phone maker.
Google Inc. for years swore it wasn´t interested in creating content, choosing instead to point people to information on the Web. Google also championed the vox populi, letting crowd-sourced opinions bubble to the top when users search for answers online.
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