News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on January 11 at 1:00 am PT
The continuing case in which Paul Ceglia sued Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over a supposed 2003 contract entitling Ceglia to 50 percent of Facebook could be drawing to a close. On Tuesday, a New York judge ordered Ceglia to pay $5,000 for contempt of court, plus some of Facebook’s legal fees, after Ceglia tried to avoid handing over his email account information. Ceglia has seen a string of legal teams abandon the case. A lawyer for Facebook told the Buffalo News that the company will try to get the case dismissed.
Kara Swisher in Media on January 7 at 10:38 am PT
A side of patent troll pâté anyone?
Kara Swisher in News on April 25, 2011 at 12:58 am PT
BoomTown loves the spoof videos that late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel does–
Hello, Humpilates!–and this one featuring actor Christoph Waltz is another great one.
Waltz always plays scary dudes–usually, some version of a Nazi, if not one, in fact–in movies, and so making him a homicidal judge on the talent show “American Idol” is perfection.
Kara Swisher in News on April 11, 2011 at 11:27 am PT
It seems Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Don Quixote twins of the digital age, have tilted at yet another legal windmill unsuccessfully.
So now, after losing another court challenge to overturn a previous court challenge, they’ll
have to settle for $65 million.
Actually, $100 million, which is how much shares in Facebook have appreciated since the pair and also Divya Narendra settled with the social networking giant.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 3, 2011 at 3:03 pm PT
SAP believes the jury was too generous in its award to Oracle and that the damages are not proportionate to its subsidiary’s offense of intellectual-property theft.
Dana Mattioli, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 25, 2011 at 12:01 am PT
The International Trade Commission dealt a blow Monday to Eastman Kodak Co., ruling against the company in its patent-infringement complaint against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 24, 2011 at 1:20 pm PT
A shareholder lawsuit seeking to get Hurd’s severance money back is on hold until the latest probe is complete.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 5:10 pm PT
A new set of independent lawyers may be tapped to revisit the circumstances of how Mark Hurd came to resign as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, court filings show.
Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 8, 2011 at 12:25 am PT
Earlier tonight, it was revealed in numerous news reports that Twitter had been ordered by a U.S. federal judge to turn over documents related to several people involved with WikiLeaks.
Here’s what Twitter had to say to BoomTown in response, as well as what CEO Dick Costolo said onstage yesterday at the
D@CES event about the importance of the free flow of information.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 5, 2011 at 10:08 am PT
Google Apps was prevented from bidding on a big contract with the U.S. Department of Interior, a federal judge has ruled.
