Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Cable companies get a DoJ inquiry, will cord cutters get a respite? (GigaOM) .. To Bolster Web Reach, CNBC Joins With Yahoo (NYT) Read more at paidContent »
In the latest example of the justice system’s ongoing discomfort with social media, a federal judge has refused a request by Chase Bank to use Facebook to serve legal papers on an identity thief. Read more at paidContent »
Google announced a major deal in France that clears the way for the sale of millions of e-books that have been caught in legal limbo until now. The deal could spur digital publishing in Europe and shape control of the continent’s fledgling e-book market. Read more at paidContent »
Google said it has reached a deal with French authors and publishers to sell digital copies of out of print books. The deal ends a six year legal dispute and could make France the first country to implement a national strategy for digitizing its literary output. Read more at paidContent »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Watch Twitter’s first ever TV commercial (Mashable) … Politico doubles down on subscription biz (paidContent) Read more at paidContent »
The campaign for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will spend big dollars this summer to deliver ads to voters’ iPhones and iPads, a move that could pep up sluggish demand for mobile ads. Read more »
A US judge yesterday threw aside a much-anticipated trial between Apple and Google-owned Motorola Mobility over smartphone patents. The decision and a blog comment by the same judge could prove to be a watershed moment for a US patent system that has spiralled out of control. Read more »
It’s been more than 24 hours since the first reports that hackers broke into millions of users’ LinkedIn accounts. The company’s response so far indicates it has learned nothing from other hacking episodes and chosen instead a head-in-the-sand approach Read more »
Facebook better hurry up with that search engine it’s reportedly building. A new survey of the mobile market shows that search ads are outstripping display ads by a wide margin in every region of the world. Read more at paidContent »
The growing popularity of cloud technology is attracting not just users but patent litigation as well. The latest example is a suit filed by Superspeed LLC against Google that claims the company’s Drive and Docs products violate a 1999 software patent. Read more »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: New Deals with Publishers will allows YouTube to Monetize nearly all UGC (SocialTimes) ..
Another Big Money Bet on AdTech: PubMatic Raises $45 Million (All Things D) Read more at paidContent »
Lawyers for Labatt Blue must wish they could climb into a deep hole about now. The beer maker is trending on Twitter after an unforced error by the legal team tied to it the media storm surrounding Canadian cannibal, Luka Magnotta. Read more at paidContent »
The ongoing saga between Apple and Samsung over the latter’s Galaxy 10.1 tablets took another twist this week as US District Judge Lucy Koh refused to grant a preliminary injunction banning the devices. Read more »
Trust-busting and 50 Shades of Grey were hot topics at last night’s annual Authors Guild Dinner where famous writers read modern-day rejection letters to Homer, F Scott Fitzgerald and others. Read more at paidContent »
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning: NBC’s Olympic Web Video Plan: Live, Legal and “Painful” (All Things D)
IPads On A Plane Let Scoot Save Fuel By Shedding TV Tons (Bloomberg) Read more at paidContent »
Oracle, it seems, is not one for irony. Right after an epic court fight with Google in which it was accused of abusing intellectual property, the software maker is now trying to dissolve another company’s patents Read more »
For decades, the multi-billion dollar market for legal research has been a cozy club for two. But now financial giant Bloomberg has fully powered up Bloomberg Law, a rival that could at last disrupt the status quo. Read more at paidContent »
Veteran tech reporter Walt Mossberg confronted Nathan Myhrvold this week about the former Microsoft CTO’s role heading up the world’s largest patent troll. Read more »
It’s wasn’t long ago that beaming one’s wedding to the whole internet was reserved for those named Kate and William. Now, the practice has gone mainstream as companies spring up to help couples share their vows far and wide. Read more »
How many restless women wouldn’t fall for an animal-loving firefighter who sent gifts and liked to talk on the phone? Read more »
For centuries, some insults have been considered so offensive that a plaintiff didn’t have to prove harm in a defamation lawsuit. Someone who falsely reports that a woman who is unchaste, for instance, is automatically liable in most courts. Read more at paidContent »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Judge gives OK to authors, photographers to sue Google over book scanning (paidContent) …
On Facebook, ‘Likes’ Become Ads (New York Times) Read more at paidContent »
The world is safe for developers who use Java interfaces in designing Android smartphones. Read more »
In a major development in the long-running case over Google’s unauthorized book-scanning, a federal judge ruled today that groups representing authors and photographers could go forward with a class action. Read more at paidContent »
ICANN, the organization that assigns names for websites, will unveil hundreds of new top level domains on June 13 that join familiar suffixes like “.com” or “.org” It appears that some of the names will be run by Google. Read more at paidContent »
The judge in the notorious trial between Oracle and Google over Java software declared at the outset that the case was the “World Series” of intellectual property. And no wonder. The two sides have already spent nearly the annual payroll of the San Diego Padres. Read more »
“Click-to-call” is a feature that lets users make a phone call by tapping a button on a website. The feature is a hit with merchants who want to reach an online audience and also represents a bright spot for the mobile ad industry. Read more »
In a new pushback over its role in an ongoing e-book controversy, Apple said that Steve Jobs’ widely reported quotes on Amazon and book publishers “will speak for themselves.” The company also denied again that it conspired to fix e-book prices. Read more at paidContent »
Image-sharing site Pinterest has been in negotiations for months with photo service Getty. A breakthrough could dispel some of the copyright questions hanging over the red-hot start-up — but one expert says not to hold your breath. Read more at paidContent »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Netflix agrees to delete data on ex-customers (paidContent) …
How Twitter Beat Facebook At Its Own Story (BuzzFeed) Read more at paidContent »
Look out, below! Facebook stock marked the return from the long weekend by tumbling nearly ten percent to an afternoon low of $28.87. Read more »
New York magazine set the media world a-chatter this weekend with a swirling tale of intrigue and in-fighting at the New York Times.The article is plump with gossip but also drives home the crucial business challenges the Times must address sooner than later. Read more at paidContent »
Arizona man David Elliott wants a court to declare that “google” is a word that means “search on the internet” and to cancel Google’s trademarks for the term. Read more at paidContent »
There has been a growing revolt in the publishing community against the idea that iPhone and iPad apps are the best route to digital dollars. The Financial Times shuttered its apps this month while a popular essay by another publisher lamented that apps were a “collective delusion” and an expensive failure. Read more at paidContent »
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: 5 key takeaways from paidContent 2012 (paidContent) …
NBCU Exploring Buyback of MSNBC.com (AdWeek) … Read more at paidContent »
Here we go again. Another disruptive TV technology, another major lawsuit. This time Dish Network and the major TV networks are suing each other over what Dish calls its “best in class DVR” technology. Read more at paidContent »
Google today released a new picture of the millions of links it scrubs from its search results in response to requests from Microsoft, movie studios and other content owners. Read more »
“If you buy a digital book you should be able to read it on anything you want to read it on”, said Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne at paidContent 2012. Read more at paidContent »
The jury in the epic intellectual property trial between Oracle and Google is going home after ruling today that the latter didn’t infringe on two patents related to the Java programming language. Read more »
In order to tell the story of Star Wars, George Lucas had to create a new technology company that was powerful enough to tell that story. The same thing has to happen in digital news publishing, industry experts discussed at paidContent 2012. Read more at paidContent »
