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Judge says Wachovia hearing possible Monday (Reuters)
Date : 10 Oct 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - A court hearing may be held on Monday over the rival bids of Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co for Wachovia Corp even th read more »
Risk aversion, bank woes fuel tumultuous slide (Reuters)
Date : 10 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks slid on Friday, as panicked investors unwound risky bets in a global sell-off on fears that tighter credit would read more »
New Zealand Copyright Minister Sneaks In 3 Strikes Law; Yells At Those Who Ask Why
Date : 10 Oct 2008
TechdirtThere's been plenty of backlash around the globe towards any sort of law that requires a "three strikes" policy for kicking users read more »
World stocks slump on Dow open (AP)
Date : 10 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Europe's stock markets plunged Friday after Wall Street opened a breathtaking 7 percent lower below the 8,000 level but read more »
University Gets Time To Notify Students Before Handing Over Info To The RIAA
Date : 10 Oct 2008 TechdirtIt's nice to see the courts finally pushing back on the RIAA's repeated attempts to expand the law to protect its business models read more »
EA Execs Also Worried About Second-Hand Sales... But With A Better Approach
Date : 10 Oct 2008 TechdirtWe recently wrote some video game execs complaining about how they should get a cut of any second-hand sales, apparently against t read more »
Money-market funds flock to guarantee program (AP)
Date : 10 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Nearly all the $3.4 trillion in money-market mutual funds is expected to be federally guaranteed for at least the next three read more »
Surprise, Surprise: WalMart Changes Its Mind, Keeps DRM Servers Running (For Now)
Date : 10 Oct 2008 TechdirtA couple weeks back, we noted with surprise Wal-Mart's decision to turn off its DRM servers with little warning. After all, both read more »
Bodog Loses Another Round Of Patent Poker
Date : 10 Oct 2008 TechdirtYou may remember last year that the popular online poker site Bodog.com was forced to change its name after losing a patent battle read more »
Record Label Gives Fans A Reason To Buy
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtYet another example of a small indie record label that actually understands the importance of giving fans a reason to buy, rather read more »
Books Are The Souvenir Edition For Your Idea
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtWe've talked at length about the difference between infinite goods and scarce goods in various areas, and how you should spread th read more »
Apple Dumps Another Game For Being 'Too Similar' To Tetris
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtYou can almost understand the reasoning behind Apple pushing the creator of a Tetris-like game called "Tris" to remove his app fro read more »
Dear Bands: No Matter How Much You Dislike John McCain, He Can Most Likely Use Your Song
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtThe latest in a long line of musicians complaining about Presidential candidate John McCain for his use of their music at campaign read more »
NSA Abused Wiretap Rights: Intercepted, Shared Private Calls Of Americans
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtNow that Congress has totally capitulated and allowed the administration's warrantless wiretapping program to go on without questi read more »
Patent Lawsuit Silly Season: TechCrunch Sued For Patent Infringement After Critical Blog Post
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtThere are different levels of ridiculousness when it comes to patent lawsuits, with the lowest of the low being patent lawsuits ba read more »
Apparel chains report dismal September sales (AP)
Date : 09 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Dismal September sales results from mall-based apparel chains, released Thursday, offered more fresh evidence that American c read more »
YouTube Taking Feature Advice From XKCD
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtWhile any open online forum has its share of trolls and poorly written comments, YouTube is infamous for having a quality level be read more »
American Citizen Detained At Border Due To Drawing Of An SUV
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtIf you want to understand why we're so troubled by the ACTA treaty that many nations are working on in secret, we just need to loo read more »
The Evolution Of The App Dock: Apple Didn't Invent It And Doesn't Deserve A Patent On It
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtEarlier this year, there was some buzzing among Apple loyalists that Dell was copying Apple when it launched a "Dell Dock" offerin read more »
Entellium Execs Simply Made Up Revenue
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtIt always surprises me when I hear about various tech startups that eventually resorted to outright scamming. I can understand th read more »
How Soon Until We Start Hearing Stories Of Twitter Criminals?
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtYou may have recently heard that story of a bank robber who, rather ingeniously, used Craigslist to create a diversion so he could read more »
Can 'Pay What You Want' Work Outside Of The Music Industry?
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtLast year, Radiohead garnered incredible attention by offering its album for free and asking fans to pay what they want. Contrary read more »
Another YouTube Speeder Found Not Guilty Due To Lack Of Evidence
Date : 09 Oct 2008 TechdirtIt seems that it's becoming somewhat common for police to scour YouTube for videos of people filming themselves speeding. However read more »
EFF Challenges Another Bogus Online Music Patent
Date : 08 Oct 2008 TechdirtThe EFF's patent busting project continues, as it's filed a challenge against an online music patent held by a company named Seer read more »
Michael Moore Admits He Doesn't Care About International Downloads, But He Has To Pretend To
Date : 08 Oct 2008 TechdirtWe were a bit surprised recently when the news came out that lawyers representing Michael Moore were making the rounds concerning read more »