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[Posted on August 16, 2007 - 5:28 PM]
How tangled is corporate lobbying these days? One of the lawyers representing Google Inc. in its $3.1 billion deal for DoubleClick Inc., Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, Schreck's Makan Delrahim, last year was retained by Microsoft Corp. to work on patent reform issues before the U.S. Supreme Court, according to federal lobbyist disclosure forms. The software giant, you might remember, is...

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[Posted on August 15, 2007 - 4:37 PM]
A Delaware Chancery Court judge has refused to dismiss a complaint filed against infoUSA Inc. by two of its shareholders that accuses the data marketing company of misusing corporate assets. The complaint combines two separate lawsuits filed by investment firm Cardinal Capital Management in February 2006 and hedge fund Dolphin Ltd. Partnership LP in October 2006. The complaint alleges...

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[Posted on August 13, 2007 - 5:13 PM]
Shares of SCO Group Inc. fell nearly 72% Monday on news that a judge in the U.S. District Court for Utah sided with Novell Inc., saying the Waltham, Mass., provider of Linux-based infrastructure software owns copyrights covering the Unix operating system. SCO, a small company based in Lindon, Utah, had argued that it was the rightful owner of the copyright...

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[Posted on August 10, 2007 - 12:10 PM]
Vonage Holdings Inc. reported earnings Thursday, and the financial news was improved in terms of higher sales and lowered loss, but the business news was bad. Sure, Vonage had cut spending, but as a result, it also cuts its new subscribers, resulting in a loss of its top position in the voice-over-Internet-protocol, or VoIP, market. It's not terrible to be...

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[Posted on July 10, 2007 - 3:25 PM]
Mel Karmazin just can't get a break from someone taking a swipe at the merger of his Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. with rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. The latest organization to air concerns about the deal is the Recording Industry Association of America, according to News.com. The latest tussle involving the satellite radio companies is part of an...

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[Posted on July 6, 2007 - 4:58 PM]
Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a leading public interest group focused on technology, responded to a recent post on the Federal Trade Commission's ongoing review of Google Inc.'s acquisition of DoubleClick Inc.: I just want to make clear our message (Center for Digital Democracy) to the FTC and the Congress is that the Google...

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[Posted on June 25, 2007 - 2:35 PM]
As noted on the latest Vonage Holdings Corp. legal story to grace The Deal.com's pages, the voice-over-Internet-protocol provider has spent the last few weeks being quiet. Unusually so, says ZDNet blogger Russel Shaw, who thinks the company's reticence might be a sign of private equity interest or a potential buy. Given the hype around private equity these days, as...

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[Posted on June 15, 2007 - 5:35 PM]
It's of strictly no surprise that the Federal Trade Commission is looking into Microsoft Corp.’s $6 billion deal for aQuantive Inc., since the purchase is subject to Hart-Scott-Rodino review. And frankly it would be shocking if the agency moved to block the deal. Antitrust regulators tend to step gingerly when it comes to taking action against technology mergers because...

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[Posted on June 8, 2007 - 3:54 PM]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Securities and Exchange Commission plans to fine Nortel Networks Corp. up to $100 million for accounting fraud. Perhaps this will close the door on Nortel's accounting woes, which over the years has required repeated financial restatements from the telecom gear company, but we wouldn't bet on it. —Alain Sherter See story from...

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[Posted on May 29, 2007 - 3:12 PM]
It comes as little surprise that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google Inc.'s recent agreement to buy online advertising giant DoubleClick Inc., after privacy groups and industry rivals including Microsoft Corp. raised havoc over the proposed $3.1 billion all-cash deal. The New York Times and  Computerworld reported Tuesday that the FTC opened a preliminary antitrust probe into the acquisition...

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