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Date : 16 Dec 2008
TechdirtThe process of serving legal papers on someone can be quite tricky -- especially if they're purposely avoiding it. However, a jud read more »
Goldman Sachs posts fourth-quarter loss (Reuters)
Date : 16 Dec 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported its first quarterly loss since going public nine years ago as plunging values of stocks read more »
Stocks rise on financials and tech (Reuters)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks advanced on Tuesday after a smaller-than-feared loss from Goldman Sachs bolstered financial shares ahead of an ex read more »
Fewer adults would buy foreclosed homes: survey (Reuters)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Fewer U.S. adults would consider buying a foreclosed home now than six months ago, and concerns about foreclosures' risk read more »
Wedding Crashers In Spain Actually The Copyright Cops
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtI tend to believe that the various song performance "collections" organizations around the world have a history of going too far i read more »
Consumer prices and housing fan new economic fears (Reuters)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Consumer prices plummeted again at a record pace and groundbreaking on new homes slumped to a new low in November as the read more »
Best Buy 3Q profit sinks, offers staff buyouts (AP)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Best Buy Co. Inc. , the nation's biggest consumer electronics retailer, said Tuesday that its third-quarter profit sank 77 pe read more »
RIAA Just Keeps On Suing Students: Conversation At The End Of A Gun Barrel
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe folks at Warner Music Group insist that their efforts to convince universities to enforce a not-so-voluntary "usage fee" on al read more »
Best Buy beats expectations and offers staff buyouts (Reuters)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Best Buy Co reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Tuesday and plans to offer employee buyouts and trim bac read more »
Monster Cable: We're Not Trademark Monsters (TM)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtWe've covered Monster Cable's long and illustrious attempts to abuse trademark law in trying to prevent absolutely anyone else fro read more »
November housing starts and permits at record low (Reuters)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - New housing starts and permits plunged to record lows in November, as long-standing problems in the housing market conti read more »
Canadian Blank CD Levy To Increase By Another 38%
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe Copyright Board of Canada has decided to increase the levy on blank CDs from 21 cents to 29 cents each. The levy is a sort of read more »
Global stocks mixed ahead of US interest rate decision (AFP)
Date : 16 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - World stocks markets were mixed on Tuesday as investors awaited the outcome of a US Federal Reserve meeting that some analys read more »
Wrongfully Blaming Hackers For Rainforest Deforestation
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtHere's an odd one. Apparently the folks at Greenpeace are claiming that a move to computerize the permit system for logging compa read more »
AT&T And T-Mobile Pay Up For Not Being Truthful About Voicemail Hackability
Date : 16 Dec 2008 TechdirtMany mobile phones' voicemail systems have worked on the basis of checking the caller ID of the incoming caller -- and if it match read more »
Stanford Creates Database Of Patent Litigation
Date : 15 Dec 2008 TechdirtOver at Stanford, some law professors have been putting together a database of IP litigation from the past few years, called the S read more »
Piracy Saves Another Lost Video
Date : 15 Dec 2008 TechdirtWe've talked about how "piracy" ended up saving the "lost" ending to the movie Little Shop of Horrors, and now it looks like somet read more »
There Can Be Only One... Taj Mahal?
Date : 15 Dec 2008 TechdirtA bunch of folks have been sending in the story from late last week about how India is protesting a wealthy Bangladeshi's plan to read more »
Oh Look: Even More Lost Votes By Diebold/Premier
Date : 15 Dec 2008 TechdirtFollowing last week's revelation of votes lost in California thanks to Premier (better known as Diebold) and its voting equipment, read more »
Chill Out On The Texting While Walking Bans, Says Professor
Date : 15 Dec 2008 TechdirtAt the University of Virginia, there's a professor who studies "the historic relationship between pedestrians and motorists." Late read more »
Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Suit
Date : 15 Dec 2008 TechdirtIt's difficult to see how Hasbro could have handled the Scrabulous situation any worse. Scrabulous, of course, was a Scrabble-lik read more »
EMI Claims Controversial Satriani/Coldplay Mashup Video Violates Coldplay Copyright
Date : 15 Dec 2008 TechdirtA few weeks ago, there was quite the lively discussion over a video mashing up Coldplay's song Viva La Vida with Joe Satriani's If read more »
Dear Google: We're Suing You For Patent Infringement... But Not In A Litigious Way
Date : 15 Dec 2008 TechdirtEric Goldman has an amusing patent lawsuit filed against Google for alleged violations of two patents by Google Reader. The two p read more »
Fannie to help renters stay in foreclosed homes (AP)
Date : 15 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Fannie Mae said Monday it's finalizing a plan to help renters stay in their homes even if their landlord enters foreclosure. read more »
Shocking: Teens Talk Sex Online
Date : 15 Dec 2008 TechdirtForty percent of US teens have sent sexually suggestive electronic messages, a new study says, adding that one in five have sent " read more »