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Apr. 17, 2008 at 8:50am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Advertiser Sues Over Click Fraud For $1 Million
Internet retailer sues Yahoo for $1 million from ComputerWorld reports Bigreds.com has sued Yahoo for over $1 million for click fraud. The online retailer of collectibles claims Yahoo has charged them over $936,000 between 2002 and 2006 for clicks received via Yahoo/Overture affiliates. Bigred is seeking over $1 million in...
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Feb. 25, 2008 at 8:39am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo, You're Not Off The Hook Over The Chinese Dissidents Case Says New Lawsuit
Yahoo Sued Again for Assisting the Persecution of Chinese Dissidents from the Epoch Times reports Yahoo is being sued once again for allegedly leaking personal information and aiding the Chinese Communist Party in Internet censorship and the persecution of dissidents. The China Democratic Party, China Social Democratic Party and the...
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Feb. 15, 2008 at 8:35am by Barry Schwartz
Porn Company Wants Google & Yahoo To Protect Kids From Pornography
Porn studio wants Google, Yahoo to protect kids from adult video from the AFP reports Steven Hirsch, the co-founder of Vivid Entertainment, a pornography company, wants Google and Yahoo to do more in protecting children from accessing pornographic content. Steven Hirsch said: None of the search engines and portals, but...
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Jan. 7, 2008 at 9:47am by Barry Schwartz
Google, AOL, Yahoo, & Digg Sued For Playing Online Solitaire
Digg And Others Sued For Infringing Infamous Computer Solitaire Patent from Techdirt reports Google, Yahoo, AOL, and even Digg were all sued by Sheldon F. Goldberg for patent infringement of US Patent 6,264,560. The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls Sheldon a wanted person who has crimes against the public domain for...
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Dec. 21, 2007 at 9:04am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo China Loses Case On Linking To Unlicensed Music
Yahoo! Found Guilty of Mass Copyright Infringement from TorrentFreak reports Yahoo China lost the case over linking to unlicensed music in China. Didn't they already lose the case? Well, in April they were ordered to remove those links and ordered to pay 200,000 yuan. But they then appealed that ruling...
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Dec. 20, 2007 at 9:18am by Barry Schwartz
Google, Yahoo, & Microsoft To Pay $31.5M For Illegal Gambling Ads
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo to Pay $31.5M Over Illegal Gambling Ads from ABC News reports the big three search engine companies settled with the US Justice Department to pay $31.5 million to educate that online gambling is illegal in the United States. Microsoft is paying the most with $21 million, followed...
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Nov. 16, 2007 at 9:26am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo China Appeals Ruling To Remove Links To Unlicensed Music
Yahoo China Appeals 'Deep Link' Ruling from Billboard reports Yahoo China is appealing the ruling for Yahoo China to remove links to the unlicensed music and pay record companies $27,000 in damages. Yahoo released a statement:...
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Nov. 13, 2007 at 1:32pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Settles Lawsuit With Chinese Dissidents
Yahoo Settles With Chinese Dissidents from the Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo has settled the lawsuit brought to them over the two Chinese dissidents who were jailed illegally due to Yahoo handing over evidence to the Chinese government. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but we do know...
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Nov. 6, 2007 at 3:52pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Grilled By Congress On China, Offers Apology
News.com has live blogging of the "Yahoo! Inc.'s Provision of False Information" hearing by the US House Of Representatives today. Jerry Yang, Yahoo's CEO, and Michael Callahan, Yahoo's General Counsel, stood before congress to give answers on the information the company provided to China that lead to the jailing of...
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Nov. 2, 2007 at 8:55am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo's Executive Apologizes Over Imprisonment Of Chinese Dissident
Yahoo Executive Offers Apology to Lawmakers from the Wall Street Journal reports Michael Callahan, executive vice president and general counsel of Yahoo, issued a statement apologizing for providing incorrect information to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs over the jailed Chinese reporter. Part of the statement read: I neglected to...
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Oct. 17, 2007 at 7:50am by Barry Schwartz
Jerry Yang & Friends Called To Testify On Chinese Dissidents Case
Yahoo execs called to testify about 'false information' from MarketWatch reports that Yahoo's Jerry Yang and general counsel Michael Callahan were told by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to testify on November 6th about Yahoo's involvement in giving information in the jailed Chinese dissidents case. The statement released by Chairman...
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Oct. 3, 2007 at 9:49am by Barry Schwartz
AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Sued Over Competitive Bidding Patent
AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Sued Over Competitive Bidding Patent from InformationWeek reports Performance Pricing filed a patent lawsuit (PDF document) against AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo over how they use competitive bidding within their search ad marketplace. The patent, named Systems and methods for transacting business over a global communications,...
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Oct. 3, 2007 at 9:30am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Sued Over Public Art Modification
Yahoo Company Art Exhibit Stirs Up Controversy from ABC reports that Sharon Louden, the artist Yahoo hired to provide art around their campus, has sued them over changing the landscape around the art. The art installed is named Reflective Tips and consists of clusters of wires with reflectors spread out...
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Aug. 28, 2007 at 8:56am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Asks Court To Dismiss Jailed Chinese Reporter Case
Yahoo to Court: Dismiss Torture Case from the New York Times blog reports that Yahoo is requesting that the court dismiss the lawsuit brought by jailed Chinese reporter. Chinese reporter Shi Tao was jailed and allegedly tortured by the Chinese government after Yahoo provided evidence against the reporter to the...
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Aug. 27, 2007 at 10:13am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo China & MSN China Sign Controversial "Self-Discipline Pact" With China
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government from The Register reports Yahoo China and MSN China have signed a pact with the Chinese government that "encourages" rather than requires bloggers to identify themselves to the companies with real names, contact details and for the companies to censor material. Reporters...
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Aug. 16, 2007 at 9:05am by Barry Schwartz
Qihoo Wins Unfair Competition Suit Against Yahoo China
Qihoo lawsuit win closes chapter in dispute with China Yahoo from Interfax reports Qihoo has won an unfair competition lawsuit against Yahoo China. Yahoo China has to pay Qihoo $9,210 and post an apology on their home page....
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Jul. 25, 2007 at 9:12am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo & Others Form Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse
Brand Owners on Web Offensive from Red Herring reports that Yahoo, Dell, Coca Cola, Hilton and others have joined together to fight cybersquatting. The companies formed a collation against cybersquatters named Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse. Cybersquatters purchase domain names that are similar to trademark names, such as yahooemail.com and...
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Jun. 13, 2007 at 8:38am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Settlement Payouts In OMS Case Begin
Yahoo is distributing payments in the Online Merchant Systems class action settlement over alleged flaws in its bidding system....
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Jun. 12, 2007 at 3:33pm by Barry Schwartz
Stockholders Vote Down Yahoo's CEO Compensation Cut & China Censorship Proposal
Yahoo shareholders defeat exec pay/perform link from Reuters reports Yahoo's shareholders have defeated proposals to cut Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's salary and to practice anti-censorship policies in China and establish a human rights committee....
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Jun. 11, 2007 at 9:49am by Barry Schwartz
Shi Tao, Jailed Chinese Reporter, Joins U.S. Lawsuit Against Yahoo
Jailed Chinese reporter sues Yahoo over his imprisonment from the International Herald Tribune reports Shi Tao, the Chinese reporter who was sentenced to jail allegedly because Yahoo Hong Kong and Yahoo China sent an email to the Chinese government that led to his arrest, has joined a US lawsuit against...
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May. 14, 2007 at 12:48pm by Chris Sherman
Class Action Suit Filed Against Yahoo Over "Defective" Search Ad Platform
Lerach Coughlin, a law firm with a reputation for going after companies who have allegedly engaged in financial shenanigans, has filed a class action lawsuit against Yahoo, charging "Yahoo and certain of its officers and directors with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934." Essentially, the suit claims that...
