The lawsuit covered software contracts that spanned a period of eight years (from 1998 to 2006) and were worth hundreds of millions of dollars. – The Associated Press reported Jan. 31 that Oracle has agreed to pay the U.S.
government $46 million to settle a lawsuit it inherited from Sun Microsystems
over alleged kickbacks to win government contracts.
The Department of Justice had charged that Sun, which Oracle bought in January
2010, an…
The Federal Trade Commission reached an $8.2 million settlement with the operator of a reputed scareware operation. – The purported head of a rogue
antivirus operation has agreed to pay roughly $8.2 million to
the Federal Trade Commission to bring a 2-year-old case to a close.
According to the FTC, Marc D’Souza and his father, Maurice D’Souza, will pay
the money to settle accusations that they profited from…
Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković says Serbia will pay before the deadline the satellite lease money it owes to an Israeli company.
There is money in the budget set aside for this purpose, Cvetković said in Belgrade on Tuesday.
Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan will move to a secret location with her mother and siblings soon after being released from rehab. “Lindsay will be staying at a secret location starting January 4, with her family, mother and siblings. She also has the support of me and her other friends. As long as she doesn’t fail [...]
"Mystery fees" solved, says the FCC. Verizon Wireless will pay the largest charge in FCC history, plus refund customers a minimum of $52.8 million. – quot;Mystery charges quot; levied by Verizon Wireless on the bills of
approximately 15 million customers over the last three years will cost the
carrier nearly $78 million. Concluding a 10-month investigation into the
matter, the Federal Communications Commission announced
Oct. 28 that Verizo…
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NetApp and Oracle settle a 3-year-old patent lawsuit over the origin of the Zettabyte File System. Terms were deemed confidential. – When Oracle annexed Sun Microsystems and all that intellectual property in
its $7.4
billion deal last January, it also inherited all of Sun’s legal
entanglements.
As of Sept. 9, one of those has gone away. NetApp and Oracle announced a
settlement regarding a 3-year-old patent lawsuit over th…
Cisco and Weston Group were the latest IT vendors to settle a federal lawsuit claiming they overcharged government agencies. The two will pay $48 million. – Cisco Systems and one of its distributors, Weston Group North America, will
pay $48 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the federal authorities claiming
the two companies overcharged on government contracts.
The case against Cisco and Weston was the latest in a series of
complaints filed agai…
Google will pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that argued its Google Buzz social Web service violated users’ privacy when it launched in February. – Google will shell out $8.5 million to
settle a class-action lawsuit with seven people who argued the Google Buzz social service
violated users’ privacy.
Google appeared to launch Buzz Feb. 9 with good intentions,
allowing users to opt in to a service that lets users share and discuss links,
pho…
HP will pay $55 million to settle claims that it participated in a kickback scheme to win federal contracts. HP officials denied the allegations despite the settlement. – Hewlett-Packard will pay a $55 million fine to settle a federal
investigation into allegations that the vendor and other companies paid
kickbacks for government contracts.
Officials with HP, the worlds top PC vendor, announced Aug. 2 that an agreement in principle had
been reached with the Depar…
Both Matsumura and Bellezza will withdraw from legal proceedings in the case, subject to certain conditions, Transcu said in a statement to the Singapore stock exchange today.
The suits will be discontinued as part of an amicable, confidential settlement, Sands unit Marina Bay Sands Pte and IPBA 2010 Pte, the organizer of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association conference, said in a joint statement today.
A notice to discontinue the lawsuits probably will be filed by tomorrow, the people said, declining to be identified because the agreement isn’t public.
Microsoft and Salesforce.com agree to settle their respective patent-infringement lawsuits against each other. Those lawsuits threatened to become a protracted legal affair and a symbolic battle over the future of the cloud. – Microsoft announced Aug. 4 that it has settled its patent-infringement cases
with Salesforce.com, marking the end of what promised to be a protracted legal
affair and a symbolic battle over the future of the cloud. Earlier this summer,
the
companies had filed intellectual-property lawsuits again…
Intel agrees to a set of restrictions in its business practices as part of a settlement to resolve an antitrust lawsuit brought by the FTC. Intel has not admitted to any wrongdoing. – Intel can no longer use its market dominance and money to hinder competition
from the likes of Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia, according to an agreement
between the giant chip maker and the Federal Trade Commission announced Aug. 4.
The agreement resolves
a lawsuit filed against Intel in Dece…
Dell will pay $100 million to settle a five-year investigation by the SEC into accounting issues surrounding Dell’s relationship with Intel. Intel is said to have paid Dell not to use AMD processors in its desktops and notebooks. In addition, CEO Michael Dell will pay a $4 million fine for his role in the accounting case. – Dell will pay $100 million and CEO
Michael Dell will pay $4 million to settle investigations by federal regulators
into accounting issues surrounding the computer maker’s relationship with
Intel.
Dell
and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement July
22, six days after c…
Intel and the Federal Trade Commission reportedly have reached a settlement in the agencys lawsuit against Intel. The deal would not include a regulatory fine, but would monitor Intels business practices in the future. – Intel reportedly has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade
Commission, which in December sued the giant chip maker over business
practices regulators said unfairly stifled competition.
According to a July 19 report by Reuters that
quoted an unnamed source close to the FTC, the proposed set…
“We much rather make love than war,” Adelson said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore. “We tried to settle with them; they didn’t want to and were quite unreasonable.”
“We much rather make love than war,” Adelson said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore. “We tried to settle with them, they didn’t want to and were quite unreasonable.”
The FTC filed a lawsuit in December 2009 accusing Intel of anti-competitive business practices intended to stifle competition from AMD and Nvidia. Intel and the FTC have now filed a joint motion to suspend the legal proceedings while the two sides work to negotiate a settlement. – Intel and the Federal Trade Commission have suspended legal proceedings
related to the lawsuit filed by the federal regulators against the chip maker
while the two sides try to negotiate a settlement.
In a statement released June 21, Intel officials said the two
sides agreed to file a joint moti…
