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A Perfect Storm: Facebook’s Troubled IPO Enters More Dangerous Waters Over Disclosure

Mike Isaac in Social on May 23 at 1:14 pm PT

Grab the Dramamine and a life jacket (just in case)!

News Byte

Honeywell to Nest: We Won’t Blink First

Lauren Goode in News on May 7 at 1:52 pm PT

Honeywell has fired the latest shots in its patent-infringement lawsuit against Nest, denying Nest’s most recent counterclaims. In a statement, the industrials giant said, “We stand by our claims alleging infringement of the seven patents related to thermostat technology.” Honeywell goes on to call Nest’s counterclaims “self-serving characterizations of the Nest Thermostat” that are “irrelevant to Honeywell’s valid claims of patent infringement,” and accuses Nest of trying to divert attention from the core issues of the suit.

As Yahoo CEO Reaches Out to Top Staff, Board Meets to Weigh “Options” (I.E., Deciding Who Gets to Take the Borked Bio Blame)

Kara Swisher in News on May 6 at 8:27 pm PT

On tonight’s Silicon Valley version of “Game of Thrones,” King Scott Thompson tries to assuage, while the board potentates sharpen their knives.

Yahoo’s Response on CEO’s Computer Science ResumeGate: “Inadvertent Error”

Kara Swisher in News on May 3 at 12:27 pm PT

Inadvertent means “failing to act carefully or considerately.” I’d say so, but is it worse than that?

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EU Launches Google Probe

Frances Robinson, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 30, 2010 at 3:05 am PT

BRUSSELS–The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google Inc. has abused a dominant position in online search, it said Tuesday.

Gag Order Denied in Oracle, SAP Trial

John Paczkowski in News on October 29, 2010 at 10:31 am PT

Bad news for SAP, Hewlett-Packard, it’s new CEO Léo Apotheker and anyone else tarred and feathered in Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s recent fusillade of anti-SAP broadsides. A federal judge has denied a request for a gag order in the increasingly contentious legal battle between Oracle and SAP.

HTC to Apple: We Built a Touchscreen Phone Before You Did

John Paczkowski in News on March 18, 2010 at 6:05 am PT

The surprise HTC expressed earlier this month at being sued by Apple has finally turned into something a bit more substantial: “strong disagreement.” The company issued a statement this morning denying Apple’s allegations and vowed to fight the suit. The gist: HTC has been making phones far longer than Apple, including a touchscreen device called the XDA that predates the iPhone by about five years.

Nokia Accuses Apple of “Legal Alchemy.” Stops Short of “Chymistry” and “Heresy.”

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 15, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

The rhetorical terpsichore in the Nokia-Apple patent-infringement spat is ramping up–and quickly. Late last week, the Finnish mobile phone maker asked a U.S. judge to dismiss Apple’s antitrust claims against it, disparaging them as “legal alchemy.”

Xerox to Google, Yahoo: If You Need Additional Copies of the Lawsuit, You Know Whom to Ask

John Paczkowski in News on February 23, 2010 at 11:33 am PT

Xerox is not a name that springs to mind when one thinks of search. It is, after all, a 100-year-old global document-management company best known for its office and production equipment. Odd, then, to hear that Xerox has accused Google and Yahoo of pilfering its intellectual property.

AMD Not Above Gloating Over Intel Legal Troubles

John Paczkowski in News on November 12, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

AMD has been carping about Intel’s alleged anticompetitive acts without satisfaction for so long that the company evidently feels entitled to a bit of gloating now that its rival has found itself in the legal crosshairs of the European Union and New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, among others. In remarks made during AMD Financial Analyst Day, CEO Dirk Meyer said that Intel’s current legal woes “ratify” AMD’s allegations.

A Perfect Storm: Facebook’s Troubled IPO Enters More Dangerous Waters Over Disclosure

Honeywell to Nest: We Won’t Blink First

As Yahoo CEO Reaches Out to Top Staff, Board Meets to Weigh “Options” (I.E., Deciding Who Gets to Take the Borked Bio Blame)

Yahoo’s Response on CEO’s Computer Science ResumeGate: “Inadvertent Error”

EU Launches Google Probe

Gag Order Denied in Oracle, SAP Trial

HTC to Apple: We Built a Touchscreen Phone Before You Did

Nokia Accuses Apple of “Legal Alchemy.” Stops Short of “Chymistry” and “Heresy.”

Xerox to Google, Yahoo: If You Need Additional Copies of the Lawsuit, You Know Whom to Ask

AMD Not Above Gloating Over Intel Legal Troubles

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EC to Intel: How's This for "Manifestly Disproportionate?"

EC to Intel: How’s This for “Manifestly Disproportionate?”

The EC Pay Intel's Legal Expenses? Uh, Good Luck With That One.

The EC Pay Intel’s Legal Expenses? Uh, Good Luck With That One.

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