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Cisco Hit With $70M Jury Verdict, May Appeal

A federal jury ruled that Cisco Systems Inc. should pay $70 million to XpertUniverse Inc. for fraud associated with a short-lived partnership between the companies.

Sift Science Takes $5.5M to Wield Machine Learning Against Fraudsters

If you don’t want to be defrauded, you’re better off accepting a purchase from someone with an AOL email account than one from Yahoo. And now you know.
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Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm

He’s back, and this time the well-known entrepreneur wants to give you a digital charge card.
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More From Mike Lynch: HP’s Autonomy Accusations Are Getting Weaker

Lynch asserts that HP is “backtracking” on its claims against him and the Autonomy management team.
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Mike Lynch Punches Back at Today’s HP Filing: Whither $5B Writedown?

Sooner or later, someone’s going to lose an eye.
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HP Confirms DOJ Is Investigating Alleged Fraud in Autonomy Deal

An investigation was expected given that HP had been in contact with the U.S. Department of Justice as well as U.K. authorities.
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Fake Google Press Release Didn’t Net Anyone Much Money

All that trouble for a few hundred thousand bucks?
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So Where Did That Fake Google Acquisition Press Release Come From? Aruba?

And how lazy journalists may have unknowingly helped someone perpetrate a crime.
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U.S. Accuses Paul Ceglia of Defrauding Facebook

A man who claimed he owned a major stake in Facebook was arrested on Friday and charged in what federal prosecutors described was a multi-billion dollar scheme to defraud the social network site and its founder Mark Zuckerberg.

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The New Law That Will Turn the Start-Up World Upside Down: Crowdfunding

Remember that special moment when we all realized that the Web was going to remake yard sales and auctions, but we didn’t know yet who was going to win?

Headless Lawsuit in Topless Blog!

No More Bing Brother, Says Microsoft

Beatles Boost EMI. (But About That Debt…)