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Twitter Wins Round One in Spammer Lawsuit Battle
A settlement with spammers ends in one small step for Twitter, one giant leap for tweet-kind.
News Byte
Don’t Spend Your AntennaGate Check All in One Place
Attention cash-only members of Apple’s iPhone 4 class action settlement: Your check’s in the mail. Apple this week began distributing $15 payments to iPhone 4 buyers who claimed to have experienced antenna or reception issues with the device, but declined to accept the free case Apple offered as a remedy back in 2010. The issuance of the checks brings to a close a rare Apple PR debacle that culminated in a historic, anomalous “AntennaGate” press conference presided over by company co-founder Steve Jobs.Google Settles With 38 States Over Street View Privacy (Like We Said)
Each state gets $192,000.
Path Settles With FTC Over Alleged COPPA Violations
The startup has agreed to pay $800,000 on charges from the FTC.
Interview: Keith Rabois Talks About Sexual Harassment Claim, Becoming a “Distraction” at Square and What’s Next
It’s complicated. Very complicated.
IBM Contends With Angry Judge in Bribery Case
Big Blue wants to move on from last year’s bribery settlement with regulators.
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Judge Won’t Approve IBM, SEC Bribery Settlement
A federal judge castigated the Securities and Exchange Commission and International Business Machines Corp. Thursday, warning he wouldn’t “rubber stamp” their pending $10 million settlement over violations of an anti-bribery law.News Byte
Justice Department, Penguin Reach Settlement on E-Book Pricing
The Justice Department said today it had reached a settlement with Penguin Group (USA), one of six companies it had accused of conspiring to raise prices of e-books. The agreement, if approved by the court, would leave only two companies — Apple and Macmillan — facing the lawsuit, due to go to trial in June. Settlements were reached earlier with Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster.Voices
Google, FTC Close to a Deal
Google is close to emerging largely unscathed from a two-year federal probe of its Web-search business, people familiar with the matter said, a result likely to disappoint rivals that were hoping the Internet giant would become mired in antitrust litigation.
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