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Settlement means sweeping changes to Passport
News Microsoft on Thursday agreed to make sweeping changes to its Passport authentication system as part of a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. The settlement addresses allegations that Passport collects too much information, uses...
[August 9, 2002, 7:50]
US Report: Settlement negotiations could change Windows 98
News As Microsoft delays shipment of Windows 98 to PC makers at least until Monday while it discusses a possible settlement with state and federal antitrust officials, attorneys for both sides are huddled in negotiations.
[May 15, 1998, 8:41]
Microsoft earnings deflated by AOL settlement
News Despite beating sales targets, Microsoft reported lower fourth-quarter earnings than expected on Thursday, hit by the costs of a legal settlement with AOL Time Warner. The settlement charge relates to Microsoft's May announcement that it would pay...
[July 18, 2003, 14:31]
Microsoft to amend schools settlement plan
News Microsoft and lawyers representing more than 100 private class-action lawsuits plan to amend their controversial settlement agreement on Monday. Critics have sharply criticized the training aspect of the settlement proposal as being largely...
[December 10, 2001, 9:23]
Apple calls for Microsoft to pay cash for settlement
News Jobs' statement came one day before Apple plans to file a supplemental legal brief further contesting the legitimacy of the proposed settlement of the suits. We think a far better settlement is for Microsoft to give their proposed $1 billion -- in...
[December 7, 2001, 10:58]
Microsoft settlement: Done deal
News Microsoft and the Justice Department on Friday filed a revised settlement in the software giant's long-standing antitrust case. By writing an opinion that the settlement is within the reaches of the public interest and that she was not convinced by...
[November 11, 2002, 14:47]
Facebook to fork out £5.9m in privacy settlement
News The settlement, announced on Friday, calls for any last vestiges of Beacon to be shut down completely. Also as part of the settlement, which is still pending approval from a judge, a $9.5m (£5.9m) settlement fund has been established to set up an...
[September 21, 2009, 14:44]
US regulators want rewrite of Google book settlement
News The US Department of Justice on Friday urged the court overseeing Google's book-search settlement with authors and publishers to reject the settlement in its current form, although it strongly hinted that the parties are flexible on certain...
[September 21, 2009, 9:44]
US state attorneys object to Google Books settlement
News Five state attorneys general have joined the opposition to Google's settlement with book authors and publishers, objecting to the way the settlement distributes unclaimed funds. The attorneys general for Connecticut, Missouri, Massachusetts...
[September 18, 2009, 10:18]
Report: Google considering book-settlement tweaks
News Google is in talks with the US Department of Justice and the plaintiffs in its book-search settlement over possible modifications to the deal that could assuage the concerns of the Justice Department, according to a report.
[September 17, 2009, 8:16]
Oracle told to name settlement price in SAP case
News A US federal court judge has ordered Oracle to name a settlement price in its ongoing litigation against rival SAP. A settlement conference is scheduled for 23 February. The judge's order is common practice in US lawsuits, in which the parties are...
[October 22, 2008, 11:45]
New York judge passes Sony rootkit settlement
News A New York judge has given a preliminary approval to the settlement of consumers' lawsuits against Sony BMG Music Entertainment, according to an Associated Press report. In the settlement, Sony has agreed to stop producing the CDs, and replace the...
[January 9, 2006, 12:15]
Microsoft reaches massive settlement over software copying
News Microsoft has claimed an important victory in its battle against software "piracy", after securing a multi-million dollar settlement against one of its own, trusted disc "replicators" which had produced 20,000 unauthorised copies of Microsoft...
[December 19, 2006, 12:51]
Appeals court reaffirms Microsoft settlement
News A US Appeals Court on Wednesday upheld Microsoft's landmark antitrust settlement with the Department of Justice and several state attorneys general, rejecting Massachusetts' appeal for stiffer penalties.
[July 1, 2004, 9:30]
Google agrees click fraud settlement
News Under an agreed $90m (£50m) settlement of a class-action lawsuit over alleged click fraud, This agreement covers all advertisers who claim to have been charged but not reimbursed for invalid clicks dating from 2002 when we launched our 'cost per...
[March 9, 2006, 8:20]
News Burst:EMI and Global Music One reach settlement
News Financial details of the settlement havve not yet been revealed. Agreement has been reached between EMI and Global Music One (GMO), the parent company of yourmobile.com, over the lawsuit issued by the music giant last week.
[August 23, 2000, 17:01]
Microsoft seeks to shut Lindows out of settlement
News Microsoft proffered legal papers seeking to disavow California class-action settlement claims submitted via the Linux distributor's MSfreePC Web site. In a motion filed earlier this month with the Superior Court of California for San Francisco...
[November 11, 2003, 8:30]
Microsoft judge approves settlement
News A federal judge on Friday largely accepted a proposed settlement in Microsoft's long-running antitrust case with the US Justice Department. We are pleased that the court has conditionally approved the settlement we reached with the federal...
[November 2, 2002, 7:44]
Settlement expected in HP civil case
News A lawyer for the attorney general's office confirmed that an announcement is scheduled for Thursday, but would not confirm or deny the civil settlement. The California attorney general's office is expected to announce on Thursday that it has...
[December 7, 2006, 10:10]
Google Books revised settlement adds limitations
News A revised settlement filed late on Friday over Google's right to scan digital books places additional limits on the company. The settlement allows out-of-print books from only English-speaking countries to be scanned, restricts the ways Google can...
[November 16, 2009, 8:38]
