A coalition of submarine cable operators is balking at a proposal that would end their exemption from contributing to the Universal Service Fund, a pool of money intended to improve access to telecommunications across America. Read more »
Canada’s Supreme Court this morning further defined the balance between music owners’ right to be paid and the public’s right to use music in ways that don’t trigger copyright infringement. The Court also likened the internet to a “technological taxi” for online content. Read more at paidContent »
Creative Mobile, maker of popular games like Drag Racer, is the latest company to fight back against a shell company that is demanding app makers pay up if they include a common “in-app purchase” button. Read more »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Free-Falling Groupon Has Its Problems, but Bankruptcy Talk Is Bunk (All Things D) …
Diller and Aereo win first round: injunction denied (paidContent) Read more at paidContent »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Free-Falling Groupon Has Its Problems, but Bankruptcy Talk Is Bunk (All Things D) …
Diller and Aereo win first round: injunction denied (paidContent) Read more at paidContent »
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has abruptly recused herself from a high-profile case in which Facebook had recently proposed to pay at least $10 million to settle accusations that it violated users’ privacy when it used their photos for “sponsored stories” without their permission. Read more at paidContent »
The European Commission proposed a law on Wednesday to pave the way for easier digital distribution. Prominent musicians, however, immediately slammed the proposal, saying it fails to fix problems of inefficiency and embezzlement. Read more at paidContent »
There was a time when only people with money to hire a detective could dig into someone’s life. Now, dozens of companies have sprung up that will prowl into a person’s past for as little as $2. Read more at paidContent »
Another day, another privacy payout. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Federal Trade Commission has assessed Google with a $22.5 million fine to settle claims that it hacked users’ iPhones in order to serve ads to them. Read more »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Next Issue brings 39 all-you-can-read magazines to iPad (paidContent) ..
Marketers Buy Facebook More for Awareness Than Likes or Leads (AdAge) Read more at paidContent »
A Silicon Valley firm called NoiseFree says it showed Apple its secret noise cancellation technology in a series of meetings but that Apple then turned around and used the technology without permission for its iPads and iPhones. Read more »
New court filings related to an alleged conspiracy between Apple and publishers over e-book prices show the matter may not be resolved until 2014. The filings underscore how the legal system moves at a much slower pace than the fast-evolving e-book market. Read more at paidContent »
July celebrations this week were marked by hot dogs, fireworks and three proclamations to preserve the revolutionary spirit of the interent. Here’s a guide to what’s going on. Read more at paidContent »
In a widely expected move, Facebook and Yahoo have agreed to put aside a ruinous lawsuit that would have locked the two Silicon Valley giants into a lengthy patent throwdown. Read more »
Microsoft this year joined a growing number of companies that forbid users from filing class action lawsuits. The new policy, however, has failed to stop at least one disgruntled Xbox user. Read more at paidContent »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: What Amazon Brings to the Smartphone Market (All Things D) … Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World (Wired) Read more at paidContent »
Amazon is reportedly set to unveil a new version of its Kindle Fire tablet by August. A hurry-up launch could spike interest in its flagging Fire product but would also come at a time when a growing number of discount tablets are crowding the market. Read more at paidContent »
Hipmunk’s quest to “take the agony out of travel planning” has won plaudits from users and the media and earned the start-up a new $15 million investment. Now, a patent troll wants Hipmunk to give it a piece of the action. Read more »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Europe sues to continue taxing digital content higher than physical (paidContent) .. How to Watch Baseball Online – Legally or Illegally (ReadWriteWeb) Read more at paidContent »
The problem with paying a ransom is that the hostage takers can come back for more — as Apple can now attest. The company paid $60 million to settle a spurious trademark suit in China only to be confronted with another claim as fishy as the first. Read more »
The US Patent Office announced it’s moving operations closer to America’s innovation centers by opening new satellite offices in Dallas, Denver and San Jose. Here’s a Q&A of what this means and why the new offices may face a staffing shortage. Read more »
In a closely-watched case tied to last year’s Occupy Wall Street protests, a New York judge ruled that tweets are no different from words shouted in the street and ordered Twitter to turn over a user’s account to prosecutors. Read more »
A New York start-up claims that a video sharing feature in YouTube and Google+ is based on concepts that it showed to Google when the two companies met to discuss collaboration strategies in 2011. Read more »
News Corp’s share price is soaring as investors cheer reports that the giant company is planning to spin off its $8 billion publishing division. News Corp analysts we talked with, not surprisingly, like the idea of a restructured News Corp — but interestingly, they’re also optimistic about the prospects of a stand-alone publishing corporation. Read more at paidContent »
Apple enjoyed a triumph this week when it persuaded a federal judge to ban a tablet computer that Apple claims was “slavishly copied” from its famous iPad. Is this a game changer that will allow the iPad to dominate for a long time to come? Here’s a simple explanation of what happened and what comes next. Read more »
The Chicago Tribune will at last begin charging for its online content through an innovative scheme that will also give readers access to a premium package of third party content. Read more at paidContent »
It’s like getting dumped on the day of your big promotion. That’s how Flipboard must have felt after two prominent magazines said they were leaving just hours after the popular news aggregator announced a groundbreaking partnership with the New York Times. Read more at paidContent »
Following numerous reports that News Corp is thinking of spinning off its publishing operations, the company issued a short statement that it is “considering a restructuring to separate its business into two distinct public companies.” Read more at paidContent »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Will Murdoch agree to spin off News Corp. publishing? (paidContent) .. Why the NYT-Flipboard deal is a smart move (GigaOM) Read more at paidContent »
Online ad technology makes it easy for users to imitate the fashion of people they see online. Through the magic of “in-image advertising,” users can get shoes like Sarah Jessica Parker or a ball cap like the one Jay-Z wears. Read more at paidContent »
In an act of childishness worthy of his championship players, a minority owner of the Miami Heat NBA team has filed a copyright suit against a blogger for posting a photo of him. He is also suing Google for refusing to take the photo down. Read more at paidContent »
The Supreme Court chose to keep the country in suspense today over its momentous health care ruling, and instead issued a decision confirming that the FCC was wrong to sanction Fox over brief f-bombs by Cher and Nicole Richie. Read more at paidContent »
A greedy patent troll that has already bagged Apple and Cisco is heading back to Texas to demand Facebook and others pay up for including a spam filter in their email systems. Read more »
The Wall Street Journal’s full-throttle video ambitions now extend to a new website that brings together a once disparate series of streams. Read more at paidContent »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Penguin brings e-books back to NYC libraries in 1-year pilot program (no Kindle yet) ..
After Divorcing Sports Illustrated, Turner Wants to Hook Up With Bleacher Report Read more at paidContent »
In a victory for Comcast, a federal judge in Chicago quashed four subpoenas that would have let a porn studio identify hundreds of subscribers accused of using torrent technology to share videos. Read more at paidContent »
The era of cloud computing has finally passed a long-running phase of hype and hysteria and has now become a simple reality of today’s business life. Read more »
LinkedIn will get to connect with a federal judges after an embarrasing security breach in early June. The social network for professionals has been hit with a class action seeking at least $5 million over an incident that exposed millions of passwords. Read more »
One of the few remaining fixtures from Dow Jones’ pre-News Corp days has moved on. Dow Jones announced today that President Todd Larsen has resigned, ending his two-year tenure at that position and 13 overall years at the company. Read more at paidContent »
In a move that suggests Google is coming to see itself as a content owner, the company is threatening legal action against sites that let users strip audio from YouTube videos and play them as stand-alone audio clips. Read more at paidContent »
