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Facebook Sends Cease And Desist To Friend-Seller
By Doug Caverly
uSocial is a controversial advertising company that specializes in social media. For a fee, it promises to get stories on the front page of Digg, direct followers to a Twitter account, and/or find someone Facebook fans (among other things). But Facebook's put at least a temporary stop to the sale of friends.
The FDA Targets Websites Over Drug Sales
By Mike Sachoff
The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on 136 websites it says were selling illegal or misbranded drugs to U.S. consumers.
The FDA says none of the websites are for pharmacies in the United States or Canada.
The agency has sent 22 warning letters to the operators of these websites and notified Internet service providers and domain name registrars that the websites were selling products that violated U.S. law.
New Network Gives Smaller Online Publishers Free Legal Help
By Mike Sachoff
The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) has launched the Online Media Legal Network (OLMLN) that will offer free legal advice to online journalists and bloggers.
UK Police Arrest 2 Over ZeuS Trojan
By Mike Sachoff
British police said today they have made Europe's first arrests in the battle against an online Trojan which threatened to compromise thousands of computers in the UK.
The ZeuS or Zbot Trojan, a type of sophisticated malicious malware, is believed to have infected and accessed personal information from tens of thousands of computers around the world.
Big Retailers Took $792 Million for Sharing Credit Card Numbers
A U.S. Senate report has revealed that retailers (a number of which you may already know and trust), have accepted as much as $792 million to share customers' credit-card information with direct marketing companies. Could your card number have been one that was shared? Would you have known?
Yahoo and Microsoft May Be Close to Signing
Kara Swisher of Boomtown, who is normally a pretty reliable source of industry scoops, is reporting that Yahoo and Microsoft may be very close to finally signing their much-anticipated search and advertising deal.
Google Takes us to Law School
By Chris Crum
As you know, Google's ultimate goal is to organize the world's information. With this in mind, it should be no surprise that Google is organizing full-text legal opinions from United States federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts. The company is using its Google Scholar service to do so.
Revised Google Books Settlement Still Has Critics
By Doug Caverly
Another milestone in a significant legal dispute has passed; a revised version of the Google Books settlement was submitted to U.S. District Court late Friday. It looks like the book-scanning clash isn't nearly over, however, since some powerful groups still have qualms about Google's proposed resolution.
Google Headed To Swiss Court Over Street View
By Doug Caverly
The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner of Switzerland, Hanspeter Thür
, still isn't happy with Google. Thür
Intel Pays AMD $1.25 Billion, Following That $1.5 Billion Fine
Update: Intel has now updated its Fourth-quarter financial expectations:
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