Gates paid $20m to adversary in anti-trust case
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Microsoft paid $20m(Â£10.6m) to one of its fiercest critics, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, after the group dropped out of an EU anti-trust case against the software giant, it emerged today.
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Novell has settled its long-standing NetWare anti-trust claim with Microsoft - to the tune of $536 - but in the same announcement reveals plans to launch a second claim relating to WordPerfect.
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There's money to be made in mediating others' software rivalries.
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Sep. 17, 2004. A judge is ordering the Microsoft to pay $112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California&#39;s market.
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The PIMCO mutual fund group's  adviser and two affiliates will pay more than $20 million to  settle charges involving failure to disclose  payments made to  brokers for promoting PIMCO fund shares, authorities said on  Wednesday.
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Verizon Wireless sued 20 unnamed data brokers for fraudulently obtaining private telephone records belonging to Hewlett-Packard Co. board members and journalists as part of an HP investigation into boardroom leaks
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A Connecticut man facing economic espionage charges says he wasn't serious about selling already-leaked Microsoft source code, but an undercover investigator for the software giant was determined to pay him something.
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Secure Computing will pay a total of $1 million to settle Washington state's first spyware case.
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A Massachusetts businessman accused of bilking the company out of millions of dollars worth of networking gear faces 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. By the Associated Press.
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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have agreed to pay a total of US$31.5 million to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
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A company suing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association for patent infringement has asked for $20 million to settle claims that the nonprofit had copied its keyboard.
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Microsoft will pay as much as $500 million as a part of settlement of the antitrust lawsuit that may be filed by rival software maker Novell, the company said Monday, within an attempt to end its antitrust fight.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A judge is ordering Microsoft Corp. to pay $112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California&#39;s market.
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A JUDGE IS ordering Microsoft to pay $112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California&#39;s market.
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(InfoWorld) - Washington's attorney general has settled the first case prosecuted under the state's 2005 Computer Spyware Act. The settlement announced Monday is with antispyware vendor Secure Computer. The White Plains, New York, software company wasÂ accused of marketing its product via deceptive spam and pop-up ads, which offered free spyware scans that always detected a problem with the computer that was scanned. The company and its president, Paul Burke, will pay $725,000 in legal fees and $200,000 in penalties, and will reimburse Washington state customers $75,000, said Paula Selis, senior council with the attorney general's office. "Given the scope of the defendants' practices and the amount of consumer harm out there, we feel this is a very fair settlement." More than 1,100 state residents purchased the company's Spyware Cleaner software since it went on the market in 2004, Selis said. Those customers will now be e-mailed by Secure Computer and offered a refund for the $49.95 product, under terms of the settlement. Secure Computer, which admits no wrongdoing in the matter, is also prohibited fromÂ using deceptive marketing techniquesÂ to promote its software, and the company must now review the advertising of its marketing affiliates to make sure they comply with the settlement. That seems like an unlikely possibility, however, because Spyware Cleaner was pulled from the market shortly after the lawsuits were filed in late January, and Secure ComputerÂ is now out of business,Â according to the company's Web site. Representatives from Secure Computer could not be reached for comment. Burke, who was Secure Computer's president, has formed a new company called Safe App Software, which is now selling a registry cleaner product, Selis said. That product is not being sold in the U.S. she added. Secure Computer and four of its business partners were sued by Microsoft and the Washington attorney general in January, but charges against three of the men have already been settled. A fourth man, Manoj Kumar of Maharashtra, India, could not be located, the attorney general's office said. Burke and Secure Computer settled the Microsoft lawsuit about two months ago, said Spencer Freeman, an attorney with Freeman Law Firm Inc. who represented the defendants in the case. Freeman declined to comment on Monday's settlement.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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The software giant agreed to pay $225 million to avoid criminal prosecution in an accounting scandal that has brought down several of its top executives.
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WHAT MICROSOFT DID: Paid $536 million cash to rival Novell Inc. to settle potential antitrust complaints over Microsoft&#39;s alleged actions toward Novell&#39;s Netware operating system, which competes with Windows software.