Google is staring at a $1B legal suit Irving Azoff manages the performance rights for roughly 20,000 songs from artists such as Pharrell, John Lennon, and The Eagles through his company, Global Music Rights (GMR) — and he’s planning to sue YouTube for over $1 billion. Azoff’s claim: The online video site has not secured necessary licensing …
Apple, Google, and several other Internet and technology companies are in a race against the clock to get the Senate to approve a bill that will end the NSA’s bulk data collection programs. Known as the USA Freedom Act, S. 2685, the bill aims to stop the government’s collection and storage of the electronic communications …
AMAZON SUCCESSFULLY BID $4.6m to control the .buy top level domain (TLD) name, according information just released by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). ICANN held an auction for three TLD names on 17 September, saying that there has been a lot of interest in them and that an auction was the …
Word that Russian hackers posted nearly 5 million Gmail usernames and passwords to a shadowy bitcoin forum pushed much of the Internet into a panic Wednesday. Many of Google’s hundreds of millions of users scrambled to see if they were among those victimized, though that very act was a risk because of the number …
Dutch technology company Philips plans to launch its .philips generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the first half of next year, TBO can reveal. Ingrid Baele, vice president in the company’s IP and standards division, told TBO about the plan in a detailed article about the new gTLD. It will be published next week in our …
Request for blocking of search results granted to anonymous applicant is first to affect an entry in the online encyclopaedia. Google is set to restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe‘s controversial new “right to be forgotten” legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia. The identity of …
The European Commission is not a big fan of the David versus Goliath ICANN new gTLD auction scenario. On December 12 last year, ICANN released a set of revised public auction rules. These auctions are presented as the avenue of last resort for resolving new gTLD contentions. As is ICANN’s custom, the rules were put …
The EU and Google agreed Wednesday on how to settle complaints the US Internet giant is squeezing competitors in Europe’s search market, avoiding legal action and billions in fines. “I believe that the new proposal obtained from Google after long and difficult talks can now address the Commission’s concerns,” EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said. …
Summary: The European antitrust chief is tapping is foot. He’s still not at all happy with Google. Google’s latest settlement package from October still isn’t enough to appease regulators, who are eyeing a $5 billion fine or a partial block of its business in the 28 member state bloc as a backup last resort. EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia …
One buzz phrase the high-level panel’s report on the post-2015 objectives has added to the development lexicon is “data revolution”. Expect every report with numbers in it published over the next couple of years to be sold as part of this so-called revolution. But as with all big new ideas, especially revolutions, the appropriate response …