Former President of TigerDirect (and parent company Systemax, Inc.) Carl Fiorentino finds himself accused of mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering for redirecting $230 million to manufacturers and suppliers who paid him kickbacks or bribes. Prosecutors claim Fiorentino was responsible for the company’s purchasing decisions but rather than going with the low bidder, he […]
Apple’s been doing well in the lawsuit department lately. Sure, Apple’s patent case against Motorola was thrown out of court, but the company that Jobs built managed to seriously delay HTC’s recent hot phones earlier this month. Now, it’s struck a major blow against Samsung. A federal judge in California has ruled that the Galaxy […]
Yesterday, Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in a 56-page decision, denied Apple’s motion to dismiss the federal antitrust complaint filed against it, which alleged that Apple spearheaded a conspiracy among e-book publishers to fix e-book prices by introducing “agency pricing” where the publisher, not the […]
This morning, Google and Oracle, with the permission of the judge, reached a stipulation, agreeing, among other things, to leave the question of damages out of the jury’s hands. As of now, the jury has found two counts of copyright infringement by Google, for nine lines of rangeCheck code and eight decompiled Java files. The […]
This week, Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for Northern District of California, ordered Apple and Samsung to pare down their list of complaints against one another. Judge Koh gave the parties until Monday to present a reasonable number of complaints to be presented in front of the jury at trial, scheduled to […]
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal antitrust complaint against Apple and Hachette, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Simon & Shuster, Pearson, and Penguin, alleging e-book price fixing in violation of the Sherman Act. According to the complaint, after unsuccessfully trying to pressure Amazon into raising its e-book prices, the publishing companies found common cause with Apple. The […]
U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn has tossed out a 2010 Colorado law meant to pressure online retailers to collect sales tax. In his ruling, Blackburn claims the law and regulations required to carry it out “impose an undue burden on interstate commerce” and are unconstitutional. The law was part of a package of Democratic-backed legislation […]
According to the Dow Jones report, Apple has put forth settlement proposals to Motorola Mobility (recently acquired by Google) and Samsung, two of the largest manufacturers of Android devices. The proposed settlement would involve royalty fees of $5 to $15 per device. Meanwhile, Samsung has filed a new patent infringement claim against Apple in South […]
The International Trade Commission issued its ruling this past Monday, finding that HTC technology infringed on two claims in Apple’s iPhone patent. The claims are related to the data tapping feature that marks telephone numbers and email addresses within a document that converts them into actionable links. ITC’s ruling bans HTC phones with this feature […]
The Megaupload versus Universal Music Group saga continues, with Universal demanding Monday’s episode of Tech News Today be yanked from YouTube, simply for reporting on the situation. The show’s producer, Tom Merritt, says he wasn’t even aware of the takedown of his show until fans alerted him via Twitter. He filed a complaint via YouTube’s […]
