On2’s shareholders – or at least a vocal subgroup of them – are not at all happy about the planned Google acquisition. Two lawsuits have been filed to stop the deal, with both complaints alleging that On2 more or less served itself on a silver platter.
Google offered to acquire On2 for 60 cents per share (or $106.5 million in all), which represented a 57 percent premium over On2’s closing price the day before. However, the day after the acquisition was announced, On2 gave its best quarterly financial report in over a year, which made the deal look less sweet.
Google Resolves Book Search Lawsuits
Google’s book-scanning and -sharing problems are, in short, almost gone. Pending the approval of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Google has agreed to a host of steps that will satisfy the Authors Guild, John Wiley & Sons, the McGraw-Hill Companies, Pearson Education, the Penguin Group, and Simon & Schuster.
RIAA Lawsuits Not Yielding Artist Payments Yet
Despite collecting millions in settlements with online music services accused of enabling music piracy, the RIAA’s artists may not be seeing the paydays they imagined.
Yahoo racks up seven angry lawsuits
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.
Latest Facebook Lawsuits, Features
There’s another rash of Facebook headlines today, and for once it looks like they’re all different. Keep reading—I’m saving the best for last! Lawsuits of late Facebook is always in and out of court. Sometimes they’re the plaintiff, such as in a case they’ve filed in federal court against some hackers, naming Brian Fabian, Josh Raskin, Ming Wu and Slickcash.com.
BlogWorld: Staying Away From Lawsuits
Blogging can be all fun and games, and a great thing about it is that no one’s likely to get hurt. Unfortunately, people are likely to be sued, and at the BlogWorld & New Media Expo, attorney Brett Trout discussed that subject.
Courts Becoming Busy With Blog Lawsuits
March was a busy month for lawsuits involving bloggers and webmasters. The court system taking them to task for defamatory statements, with one case becoming the first to go to trial and result in a liability verdict.
A legal system once tentative about taking on digital cases is braving the waters with more frequency. Most of the cases we’ve reported on have involved the statements of anonymous commentators, liability for which webmasters and bloggers have been repeatedly exonerated (or are expected to be). But these are different.
SEO & Accessibility Prevent Lawsuits, Increase Visibility
The WorldWide Web Consortium (W3C), in May 0f 1999, issued Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which outlined methods of making web content easily accessible to the visually and physically impaired. In those guidelines the W3C stated plainly,
Microsoft Agrees to Settle Antitrust Lawsuits
Microsoft will distribute vouchers valuing $37.8 million to Arkansas and $224 million to Wisconsin as part of two proposed class-action lawsuit settlements. The vouchers will be redeemable by residents of the respective states to obtain free software and hardware.
EU Domain Grabs Lead To Lawsuits
The European Registry of Internet Domain names (EURid) suspended the registrations of over 74,000 .eu domains and accused 400 registrars of warehousing names for resale.