From the Life-Is-Unfair Files: You’re Welcome, Winklevii. Love, Zuck.

That’s right, folks, the rich do get richer, especially if they pursue their case well past the point of shame.
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AT&T Agrees to Pay TiVo at Least $215 Million for Patents

TiVo Inc. on Tuesday said it reached a settlement with AT&T Inc. that gives the set-top box maker at least $215 million for its technology.

Alibaba’s Jack Ma at Stanford: “We Are Very Interested” in Buying the “Whole” of Yahoo

In answer to a direct question about whether his company was going to buy Yahoo at a forum at Stanford University in Silicon Valley this afternoon, Alibaba Chairman and CEO Jack Ma said: “We are very interested” in buying all of it.
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Google Settles Pharmacy Ad Probe for $500 Million

Google Inc. has reached a $500 million legal settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to avoid prosecution over allegations that it knowingly accepted hundreds of millions in ads from rogue online pharmacies.

Yahoo-Alibaba-SoftBank Settlement Call: At Least It’s Not 100 Percent of Zero!

As these companies are wont to do in the middle of the night, Yahoo, SoftBank and the Alibaba Group have reached an agreement in their nasty dispute around the Alipay payments unit, and they are ready to talk about it.
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Who’s to Blame for Yahoo’s Q2 Revenue Rout? The Line Forms Around Back…

What happened to Yahoo revenue? Display sales in the U.S. gets the blame this quarter. While coming up with a new thing to blame for Q3, Yahoo execs try to explain it all for you.
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Yahoo Preps for Investor Day Tomorrow, While Investors Prep for a Yahoo Grilling

It’s time for Yahoo’s annual meeting with its investors tomorrow. On the menu: Not-so-tasty Chinese issues, with a side of stock decline.
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Case Closed: LimeWire Settles With Labels For $105 Million

And now the long-running LimeWire saga is really over: The file-sharing site, forced to shut down by a Federal court order last fall, has agreed to pay the big music labels $105 million to settle a copyright case. The two sides had spent the past couple weeks in a New York courtroom, where a jury was set to decide damages; LimeWire agreed to a separate settlement with music publishers in March.

Google Near DOJ Settlement Over Online Drug Ads

Google Inc. is close to settling a U.S. criminal investigation into allegations it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws, according to people familiar with the matter.

Playdom Settles FTC Charges Over Children's Data

Playdom Inc., an operator of online social games, has agreed to pay $3 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges it collected and disclosed children’s personal information without parents’ consent, the agency said.

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