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Submission + - Apple sued over iTunes technology

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tuxgeek

on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @11:51PM

tuxgeek writes: "And again, another patent lawsuit that may affect millions of iPod and iTunes users.

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. was sued Wednesday over allegations its iTunes online music store and iPod music players are illegally using a patented method for distributing digital media over the Internet.

Atlanta-based ZapMedia Services Inc. sued Apple in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accusing the Cupertino-based company of violating two ZapMedia patents.

The patents in question cover a way of sending music and other digital content from servers to multiple media players, a broad description that could also apply to a wide swath of other companies selling digital media and the devices to play it.

Read the rest of the article. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080313/ap_on_hi_te/apple_itunes_lawsuit"

Submission + - Yahoo sued for spurning Microsoft

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tuxgeek

on Friday February 22, 2008 @08:43PM

tuxgeek writes: "In the continuing saga of Yahoo resisting a Microsoft buy out, Yahoo is now being sued by it's shareholders.

DOVER, Del. — Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft Corp. The lawsuit was filed in Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday by lawyers representing Detroit's police and fire retirement system and general retirement system, as well as "all other similarly situated public shareholders." Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo, whose shares closed unchanged at $28.42 on Friday, rejected Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid as inadequate, but indicated that it might be willing to negotiate if the price was right. Yahoo is believed to want at least $40 per share, or about $56 billion.

More on the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080222/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_shareholder_lawsuit"

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