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Arizona Republican Debate 2012: How Will Immigration Factor In?

Immigration
Of all the issues likely to surface at Wednesday night's Republican debate in Arizona, immigration is a fairly safe bet. That's because Arizona has come to embody the GOP's approach to immigration, in 2010 passing a controversial immigration law that became the model for similar bills passed by Republican-controlled legislatures in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Utah.
Report: 'Mini iPad' on Apple's 2012 Product Pipeline

Chinese Firm Seeks Halt of iPad Sales in Shanghai

A Chinese technology firm sought to halt the sale of Apple Inc's iPads across the affluent city of Shanghai, arguing at a local court hearing on Wednesday that the U.S. firm had infringed on its trademark.
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Apple Market Cap Breaches $500-B a Week Prior to Rumoured iPad 3 Debut

Apple's China Trademark Battle Moves to Shanghai

Apple Inc's trademark battle moves to one of China's richest cities on Wednesday when a Shanghai court will deliberate a request by troubled technology company Proview to halt the sale of iPads across the city.
Apple Market Cap Breaches $500-B a Week Prior to Rumoured iPad 3 Debut

iPad 3 Release May Get Delayed: Apple Threatens Proview With Defamation Suit

Apple fans are expecting the tech giant to debut iPad 3 on March 7, or at least in the first week of March, if rumors are to be believed, but they could be in store for disappointment - Apple might delay the release of iPad 3 as iPad tablets have been banned in China over a bitter trademark dispute between the tech giant and Proview – a bankrupt Chinese company.
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Wynn Resorts Forcibly Buys Out Board Member

Wynn Resorts Ltd said it had discovered that board member Kazuo Okada made improper payments to foreign gaming regulators and the company forcibly bought back the Japanese gaming mogul's 20 percent stake in Wynn.
Tourists stand outside the Wynn Casino in Macau

Wynn Resorts Buys Out 'Unsuitable' Board Member

Wynn Resorts Ltd upped the ante in the fight between its billionaire founder Steve Wynn and his former business partner Kazuo Okada, accusing the Japanese gaming mogul of improper payments and forcibly buying back his 20 percent stake in Wynn's casino company at a discount.
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA) introduced a bill that would make "Do Not Track" an official law.

FBI and Homeland Security Monitoring Social Media: Stop it!, Says California Congresswoman

While the FBI looks to hire app developers to help them snoop around social media sites, the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring blogs for signs of domestic terrorism. Jackie Speier, a San Francisco Bay Area based Congresswoman is demanding they stop. She said as much during a Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence meeting Feb. 16.
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AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile Sued by Intellectual Ventures

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Delaware, accused each company of violating 15 different patents related to wireless network services, both individually and through interoperability agreements among the wireless carriers.
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Financiers Perelman and Drapkin end legal feud

Billionaire financier Ron Perelman and his longtime former business partner and one-time best friend Donald Drapkin have kissed and made up, at least in the legal sense, weeks after going to trial.
It may be safe to say that Apple is dominating the mobile market, especially after a recent lawsuit against Motorola. The company has just won a patent debacle against Motorola in regards to Apple's staple "slide to unlock" feature on smartphone

Apple Motorola Lawsuit: 'Significant Win Against Android' Says Microsoft Patent Consultant

It may be safe to say that Apple is dominating the mobile market, especially after a recent lawsuit against Motorola. The company has just won a patent debacle against Motorola in regards to Apple’s staple “slide to unlock” feature on smartphones. The Munich Regional Court in Germany ruled that the competitor smartphone supplier infringes Apple’s European patent, and the decision imposes a permanent injunction against Motorola devices.
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Citigroup Pays $158M in Mortgage Fraud Pact

Citigroup Inc has agreed to pay $158.3 million to settle U.S. civil claims that it defrauded the government into insuring thousands of risky home loans made by its CitiMortgage unit.
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Associated Press Sues News Aggregation Service for 'Parasitic Business Model'

The Associated Press, the world's oldest and largest news-gathering organization, is making good on its threat to sue content aggregation news services, alleging Tuesday that a paid-subscription company's repackaged content works on a parasitic business model. The 135-page suit against San Francisco-based company Meltwater News begins with a thudding blow: Meltwater has built its business on the willful exploitation and copying of AP's and other publishers' news articles ...

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