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Nevada is first state to legalize online gambling
- Nevada's governor has signed into law a bill which legalizes Internet gambling. Consequently, Nevada has become the first U.S. state to legalize online gambling. The AB114 bill (pdf) also authorizes Nevada to make deals with other states, allowing them to…
Apple calls e-book settlement "unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented"
- In a statement issued yesterday, Apple lambasted the Department of Justice over supporting a government-proposed settlement intended to resolve possible e-book price-fixing practices. The company criticized the settlement as "fundamentally unfair, unlawful and unprecedented", accusing the DOJ of attempting to…
Former AT&T executive pleads guilty to insider trading charges
- Former AT&T marketing executive Alnoor Ebrahim pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire and securities fraud on Monday, following a US government investigation into an insider-trading scheme in which he leaked sales information about iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones…
DOJ files motion to block return of data to MegaUpload user
- The innocent users of Megaupload who lost their data, personal files and documents as a result of the US Government's action against the file-sharing service in January remain unable to access them, for at least the foreseeable future after the…
SOCA, FBI and DoJ take down 36 credit card fraud sites
- British police arrested three people and shut down 36 criminal-owned web domains on Friday, as part of a two year long international anti-fraud investigation by the UK's Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the FBI and the US Department of…
US Government denies Megaupload fair legal representation for a fourth time
- It quickly became obvious with the raids on Megaupload and its founder Kim Dotcom in January that US authorities were taking a no-nonsense approach to the file-sharing service, in what they aptly called the biggest criminal copyright case ever brought…
EU, US approve Google's $12.5 billion buyout of Motorola Mobility
- The EU and US approved Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility today. European regulators were first to greenlight the transition, saying it doesn't present issues. The US Department of Justice mirrored that decision hours later. With those blessings, Google…
Justice Department to green light Google-Motorola deal
- Google could receive approval from the US Department of Justice for its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility as early as next week, giving the internet search giant a powerful armory of patents for its Android operating system, according to…
Hitachi-LG execs face jail time, fines for price fixing
- Three industry executives will serve prison sentences after pleading guilty to fixing optical disk drive prices, according to the US Department of Justice. The Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) workers, Young Keun Park, Sang Hun Kim and Sik "Daniel" Hur participated…
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