5 posts and columns on temporary restraining order

Exclusive: Microsoft Mulls Legally Poking Facebook Over Ad Talent Raid

in News on March 2, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT

Microsoft–furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook–has been considering a wide range of options, including legal action to block the move, according to sources close to the situation. While it might not come to that, tensions between the two companies, who have partnered closely in the past, are running high over the hiring of Carolyn Everson. She had been head of global ad sales at Microsoft and has been hired to be VP of global sales at Facebook.

AT&T Awarded Hug and a Box of Tissues in Verizon Ad Case

in News on November 18, 2009 at 6:07 pm PT

Verizon was right. The truth does hurt. And it is especially painful when it’s meted out by a court of law. A U.S. District judge on Wednesday denied AT&T’s request to force Verizon to pull its “There’s A Map For That” and “Island of Misfit Toys” commercials, saying that while the ads might be “sneaky,” they are they are not misleading.
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Court Kills Preposterous Pirate Beatles Site

in Media on November 18, 2009 at 4:05 pm PT

It’s official: You still can’t buy the Beatles’ songs on the Web, despite the efforts of a site that attempted to do so by rewriting copyright law on the fly. In other news: Have you seen this clip of Richard Pryor reading the alphabet on Sesame Street? Awesome.
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Weekend Update, 10/10/08

in News on October 11, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

The best thing that can be said of the week ending Oct. 10, 2008, is this: It’s over. Marked by panic selling and wet-your-pants fear, it was one of the worst weeks in the financial world’s history–a week that cut the legs out from under Google, beat Yahoo until its market cap bled purple and caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to swing more than one thousand points on an intra-day basis.

RealDVD Launch Buffering…Buffering…

in News on October 8, 2008 at 6:47 am PT

Looks like RealNetworks’ RealDVD, the company’s new “legal” DVD ripper, is off the market for the foreseeable future. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel on Tuesday renewed the temporary restraining order barring Real from distributing the software.