Earlier this month, it was also reported that FTC chairman Jonathan Leibowitz was pushing Google to accept a settlement agreement with the FTC. News of the FTC's possible decision comes following recent reports saying that the FTC was pleading with...
Citing officials "briefed on the settlement terms", the WSJ reports that Google is about to pay the biggest fine ever imposed by the U.S. The whopping $22.5 million fine results from Google's 20 year agreement with the FTC, promising to be open and...
Facebook and Yahoo have reached a settlement in their twin patent infringement cases and agreed on an advertising deal. The companies announced Friday that they would be cross-licensing each's respective patents and entering into an agreement which...
Alsup is widely quoted as having asked, upon learning of the latest settlement: “Is there a catch I need to be aware of? The agreement covers the outstanding copyright infringement claims Oracle had made against Google.
AllThingsD has covered pretty much every inch of the highly politicized situation as it began to unravel, including the official announcement of CEO changes and the proxy settlement, details on the $7 million “Make-Whole” cash bonus Thompson walks...
Such commitments followed the DOJ vs Microsoft settlement in 2001, which forced Microsoft to allow PC vendors to include non-Microsoft software on systems. Further action by the European Commission led to an agreement whereby Windows users get...
On Google’s October 2010 settlement of their AdWords dispute with French authorities over their practice of blocking specific advertisers from buying sponsored links, the New York Times had reported that Google "also agreed to apply 'the principle...
Fla.and two watchdog groups – Consumer Watchdog and the Electronic Privacy Information Center – began pushing the FTC to investigate whether Google violated a privacy settlement the FTC signed with Google last year.
In 2010, a number of companies including Apple, Intel and Google, agreed to a settlement with the U.S.government that restricted them from creating such anti-competitive employment agreements in the future.
In the settlement agreement, they agreed to overhaul their rules on blocking specific advertisers from buying sponsored links. At the time, Google was clear that despite reports they would apply the terms of the agreement to operations in all...
I’m not sure this decision, the way it is, is enough to push the parties to settlement. In practical terms, it means that HTC won't be able to continue importing Android phones after that date until the company has either appealed the ruling...
The Half-Billion Dollar Settlement In exchange, Google received a non-disclosure agreement that would prevent major details of the case from being released. Documents, emails, and witnesses confirm that Google CEO Larry Page knew about and allowed...
Google and the aforementioned groups have been working on a settlement for six years now, but their attempted settlements have all been rejected. Google has reached an agreement with France's largest publishing company, Hachette Libre.
Seems today's Department of Justice proposed settlement has appeased all sides of the Google-ITA acquisition debate. District Court in Washington, D.C.to block the proposed acquisition, while also filing the proposed settlement that would resolve...
The settlement can be found at the government's site. This is a tough settlement that ensures that Google will honor its commitments to consumers and build strong privacy protections into all of its operations.
Google rarely contacts Gmail users via email, but we are making an exception to let you know that we've reached a settlement in a lawsuit regarding Google Buzz, a service we launched within Gmail in February of this year.
Google responded to the settlement Friday on their Public Policy Blog, writing: While there's no evidence that our policy hindered hiring or affected wages, we abandoned our "no cold calling" policy in late 2009 once the Justice Department raised...
The amended settlement agreement requires the Book Rights Registry to search for rightsholders who have not yet come forward and to hold revenue on their behalf. The Google Book Settlement has finally been revised.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has taken to the editorial pages of the New York Times to pen a defense of his company's book settlement. Struck a year ago, the settlement recently went into renegotiations after much opposition from various groups...
Otherwise, it was your regular Google stuff - defending their book settlement (which they're re-negotiating), defending their luxurious culture in a recession, and how they're good not evil (like Microsoft is, don't ya know?
