The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit today against AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile. The $39 billion buy-out was announced in March of this year and would make AT&T the largest mobile carrier in the US, superseding Verizon. AT&T is currently second in the nation, T-Mobile fourth, and they are in direct competition in 97 out [...]
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The US Government is suing Google for $500 million for displaying illegal pharmaceutical ads. This sum represents the revenue Google accrued as a direct result of these advertisements and it makes up 22% of revenue from all advertisements. How could a company under constant public scrutiny make such a big faux pas? By offering tools [...] The next version of the Social Networking Revolution is here. Forget apps, HTC has built a physical “post to Facebook” button directly onto their latest phone: the Status. Two versions of the phone premiered in the UK last month under the names ChaCha and Salsa. In a bold move to make the phone more “American,” [...] NERA Economic Consulting published a report in June on trends in SEC settlements. They found some interesting shifts in the predominant settlement types that you may find surprising. Here are the highlights of the report: The SEC settled with 681 defendants in 2010 and is estimated to settle with 688 this year, showing a steady trend, [...] Patent expert David Martin states that 30 percent of patents On Monday Google announced plans to buy Motorola for $12.5 |
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