It looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook will pay off ConnectU’s creators to make a lawsuit over Facebook’s genesis go away.

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Fears of Internet piracy could persuade writers to cease creating new works, one group claims. We have our own claim, and it rhymes with full snit.

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Google tried to run an end-around on a German trademark holder of the Gmail name by seeking a European Union trademark for it.

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As an independent company, Rapt picked up clients like Fox Interactive Media, Yahoo, and AOL/Tacoda as well as MSN. We’re sure MSN will stick around.

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The company won’t just bleed red if its upcoming financial quarterly report fails to impress investors, it may turn from Yahoo Purple to Microsoft Blue and White in very short order.

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Shareholders who view Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo as a welcome exit from two years of falling stock prices have filed seven lawsuits against the company over its reaction to the deal.

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New chairman Roy Bostock and other board members are trying to make Jerry Yang see the inevitability of a Microsoft takeover.

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One YouTube upload later, a Baltimore cop received a suspension after a skater recorded the officer’s less-than-friendly interactions with a fellow skater.

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Through several side bids for pieces of spectrum, Verizon may have outbid the top bid for the desired 700MHz C block auction and pushed it into a new scenario.

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The free ride, aka the five-day Add Grace Period (AGP) for buying and returning a domain for a refund, came to an end at the latest ICANN meeting.

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