Lawyers prep for battle in iPod antitrust class action
By Marisa Kendall, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — Depending on who you ask, Apple Inc.’s 2006 iTunes update was either a “significant enhancement” that gave users “amazing new features,” or it was a ruse created solely to feed the…
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Cayman Islands: Tethys Petroleum Limited: Corporate Update
GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS–(Marketwired – Dec 1, 2014) – Tethys Petroleum Limited (“Tethys” or the “Company” (TPL.TO) (TPL.L)) is pleased to provide an update to our shareholders on the current operations, forward plans and the strategic focus of the Company…
Publicly traded NPEs take investors for a bumpy ride
By Scott Graham, from The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — When the Federal Circuit affirms summary judgment of noninfringement, that’s usually considered bad news for the patent holder. But SmartMetric Inc., a tiny, publicly traded company that’s been litigating patent claims…
Leaders are fiddling while Europe burns
By THE ECONOMIST From Business Insider The Performance Of State-Owned Enterprises Has Been Shockingly Bad Europe is in dire economic straits. Growth in the euro zone is stuck below 1%, unemployment is above 11% and inflation is hovering around 0.4%,…
It’s clear that race is America’s deepest problem
The Economist From Business Insider Riots are rarely so widely anticipated. By 8pm on November 24th, when the prosecutor in Ferguson, Missouri, announced the grand jury’s decision not to charge a police officer with a crime for shooting an unarmed…
High Court’s first gay-issues ruling
By Tony Mauro, From The National Law Journal Same-sex marriage cases spark new interest in 1958 First Amendment decision. With same-sex marriage litigation pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers and scholars are focusing intense interest on a long-forgotten, one-line…
Lighthouse students tour government offices
Sixteen Lighthouse School students yesterday got a first-hand look inside Government’s operations. As part of a school project to learn about the work that Government does, the young people aged seven to ten years toured the Government Administration Building on…
Pope Francis: Muslim leaders should condemn terrorism
From BBC Pope Francis has urged Muslim leaders around the world to condemn terrorism carried out in the name of Islam. Speaking on board a flight back to Rome, the Pope said that he understood the harm caused by the…
Baby’s body found buried on Maroubra beach in Sydney
Police said they were trying to locate the parents of the baby Australian police have urged the mother of a baby found dead and buried in the sand at Sydney’s Maroubra beach to come forward. The body, which was discovered…
The obstacles behind the demise of the sapphire iPhone screen
By Kevin Bullis for MIT Technology Review From Mashable In the year leading up to the release of the iPhone 6, Apple invested more than $1 billion in an effort to make sapphire one of the device’s big selling points….
