Defenders of Apple’s e-book deals with the major publishers portrayed the “agency” pricing model as Apple’s idea — an initiative by Steve Jobs to help the company’s new tablet computer compete in a market dominated by Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, however, the Justice Department argued that the agency model came […]
There is one area, besides copper mining and home foreclosures, where Arizona is a national leader. It’s at the front of a movement by states and local governments to seize control of immigration from the federal government. In 2010 it passed a law, S.B. 1070, that made the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants its official […]
By Matthew J. Schwartz, InformationWeek Good news for Megaupload users: Your data just got a two-week reprieve from being deleted. Friday, U.S. district attorney Neil MacBride had written to Megaupload’s lawyers, informing them that federal investigators had finished reviewing Megaupload data, and that it could be deleted from servers just one week later. “It is […]
ONE recent afternoon in the offices of the Midtown law firm run by David Boies and his powerful litigation partners, a large black clamshell box sat on a conference table. Inside were raucous, sometimes wildly funny collages of photographs and magazine pages handmade by the artist Richard Prince, works of art that have become the […]
These dueling yogis have their practices tied up in knots. Bikram Choudhury, famed creator of Bikram Yoga, is suing Yoga to the People in the East Village for stealing his signature sequence of yoga poses. Choudhury is demanding $1 million from Gregory Gumucio, a former student and the owner of Yoga to the People, for […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Accusing Facebook of engaging in “unfair and deceptive” practices, the federal government on Tuesday announced a broad settlement that requires the company to respect the privacy wishes of its users and subjects it to regular privacy audits for the next 20 years. The order, announced by the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, […]