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Citigroup talking to U.S. government as shares dive: source (Reuters)
Date : 21 Nov 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Citigroup Inc has begun talks with the U.S. government as its plummeting share price raises doubts about the bank's abil read more »
Cooking Mama Shows How To Respond To Critical Parody
Date : 21 Nov 2008
TechdirtWe've seen plenty of organizations react poorly and sue when someone creates a parody of what they do. Parody is protected under read more »
McCain Responds To Jackson Browne Lawsuit: Here's How Fair Use Works...
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtDuring the presidential campaign, we noted that singer Jackson Browne had sued the McCain campaign for the use of one of his songs read more »
Zune Music Rental Service, Now With Stuff You Get To Keep, Too
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtOnline-music rental services -- where users get access to a library of songs for as long as they pay a monthly fee -- keep hanging read more »
Wal-Mart names Duke to succeed Scott as CEO (AP)
Date : 21 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, unexpectedly announced Friday that its chief executive will retire in Feb read more »
Did The EU Actually Do Something Right In Its Efforts To Fight Google Dominance?
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtOver the past few years, we've seen various European governments freak out over Google's dominance over the internet, complaining read more »
Coupons.com Drops DMCA Case Against Guy Who Told People To Delete Files On Their Hard Drive
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtWe've been covering the DMCA lawsuit filed by Coupons.com against a guy, John Stottlemire, who figured out that if you delete a fe read more »
RIAA Sued For Racketeering Yet Again
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtA few people have filed lawsuits against the RIAA for racketeering in the past, though these charges have always been dismissed. read more »
Clinton accepts Obama secretary of state offer: NY Times (Reuters)
Date : 21 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has accepted an offer from President-elect Barack Obama to become U.S. secretary of state, read more »
Ask AP: Importance of housing starts, honeybees (AP)
Date : 21 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - American farmers have long worried about the declining population of honeybees, a key crop pollinator. But honeybees original read more »
Dear 50 Cent: Did I Just Violate Your Trademark?
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtA bunch of readers submitted the story about the ongoing lawsuit between the rapper 50 Cent and Taco Bell. Taco Bell started runn read more »
Companies Sued For Not Paying For Time Spent Booting Up A Computer
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtGizmodo points us to the fascinating news that there is a growing number of lawsuits from hourly employees suing employers for not read more »
Oil rallies from 3-1/2-year low (Reuters)
Date : 21 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Oil rose slightly on Friday, after falling more than 7 percent the day before, as stock markets recovered from early low read more »
Three Strikes Rule May Sneak Into EU Law, Despite Earlier Rejection
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtWe've talked in the past about how the entertainment industry never gives up trying to push through its legislative agenda -- even read more »
Dark Knight... Both Most Pirated And Highest Earning Movie
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtYou may recall when The Dark Knight opened, we pointed out that its record breaking opening was because movie makers created a mov read more »
As Internet Usage Grows, Sexual Offenses Against Kids Have Decreased
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtWe've been pointing out for a while that the supposed "threat" of online sexual predators has been blown way out of proportion, th read more »
FHA-Backed Loans: The New Subprime (BusinessWeek Online)
Date : 21 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessBusinessWeek Online - As if they haven't done enough damage. Thousands of subprime mortgage lenders and brokers -- many of them th read more »
Suing Over Being Called A Douchebag Might Just Get More People To Think You're A Douchebag
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtThere's a somewhat popular (and quite amusing) blog called Hot Chicks with Douchebags. It is... well, pretty much what you'd expe read more »
No Surprise Here: Telco Employees Access Obama's Phone Records
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtWe've pointed out plenty of times in the past, that any time there's a database of info out there, the data is almost certain to b read more »
Verizon Wireless Tries To Grow The Mobile Web By Breaking It
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtMobile data and web use has grown by leaps and bounds over the past year or two. One new stat says mobile data revenues are growin read more »
Dear Trademark Filers: You Cannot Get Trademarks Based On Barack Obama's Name
Date : 21 Nov 2008 TechdirtWith the election of Barack Obama last week, some observers have noted the not-surprising rush by folks over the past few months t read more »
Canadian Regulators Say Bell Canada's DSL Throttling Is Fine
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtEarlier this year, you may recall that Bell Canada started traffic shaping its DSL even at the wholesale level -- and did so witho read more »
Parody Is Still Fair Use Last We Checked
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtThe EFF is representing a NYC activist who is protesting redevelopment efforts for New York City's Union Square. The woman, Savit read more »
Could You Google Bomb Google Flu?
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtGoogle got a lot of attention recently for the launch of Google Flu Trends, which looks at aggregate data on searches related to t read more »
All-Star Witness List In Lawsuit Over Constitutionality Of RIAA Lawsuits
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtLast month we had mentioned how Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson was taking on the RIAA's strategy of suing music uploaders by read more »