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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.

Apple vs Proview iPad Trademark Dispute: See What the Chinese iPad Looks Like

Proview iPad
A scanned advertisement of the Proview iPad made its way onto the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time Report Blog, Feb. 17, so now everyone can see what the Apple trademark dispute is really all about. As mentioned in the accompanying report, Proview's iPad looks nothing like Apple's, but it does look a little bit like the iMac desktop computer of a decade ago.
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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.
Sprint, T-Mobile

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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