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Yelp, it would seem, doesn't want its users to be afraid to leave negative reviews for businesses because of some of the lawsuits that have made the headlines. Yelp Senior Dire...

Virginia Yelp Review Suit Goes To Trial

A little over a year ago, a Virginia judge ordered a Yelp user to change...

Court Orders Yelp To Identify Anonymous Reviewers

Once again, the subject of free speech with regard to Yelp reviews has been brought up in court. A new decision has proven controversial because if the court is wrong (which is ver...

Facebook Offers 70 Million More Shares, Heads To Court Over IPO

Facebook announced on Thursday that it is offering 70,000,000 new shares of its Class A common stock, with 27,004,761 shares being offered by the company itself and 42,995,239 shar...

Life Sentence For Pot: Jeff Mizanskey Seeks Support

A Missouri newspaper tells us of a man named Jeff Mizanskey wh...

Jury Awards Apple $290 Million In Samsung Lawsuit

The AFP and the...

Wikimedia Foundation Sends Cease & Desist To Wiki-PR

Last month, Sue Gardner, the outgoing executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation,...

Google Pays $17 Million To States Over ‘Safari-Gate’

Last year, Google was handed the largest fine for a single company in...

John McAfee Responds To Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Last week, news came out that eccentric McAfee Antivirus founder John McAfee is being sued by the daughter of his neighbor in Belize, Gregory Faull, whose death began a multi-natio...

Fair Use Prevails As Google Wins Book-Scanning Case

So, you know that book-scanning legal battle that Google has been fighting for the past eight years against the Authors Guild? Google just won. In a New York court, Judge Denny...

49ers Aldon Smith Turns Himself In To Authorities

Things just aren't going Aldon Smith's way, as the San Francisco pass rusher surrendered to authorities Tuesday night in connection with felony weapons charges. After being proc...

Yahoo Microsoft ‘Search Alliance’ Encounters More Friction

More friction between Microsoft and Yahoo regarding the two companies' "Search Alliance" has been made public thanks to court documents obtained by Reuters. The two companies h...

Mark Cuban Innocent In Insider Trading Case, Jury Finds

A federal jury has reportedly found billionaire Mark Cuban not guilty of insider trading. The trial began last month, stemming from accusations that he engaged in insider tradi...

Judge Says Gmail Might Be Breaking The Law

Google continues to battle a class action lawsuit filed in may, claiming that the company is violating laws when it "opens" and "reads" emails. Earlier this month,...

Yelp: We’d Love To Work With More Law Enforcement Officials To Crack Down On Fake Reviews

This week, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that nineteen companies agreed to stop writing fake Yelp reviews and pay over $350,000 of fines. "Consumers...

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