Microsoft hit with $1.52 billion in damages
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A U.S. federal jury found that  Microsoft Corp. infringed audio patents held by Alcatel-Lucent  and should pay $1.52 billion in damages, the No. 1 software  maker said on Thursday.
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SEATTLE: A San Francisco judge ordered Microsoft Corp to pay lawyers involved in its $1.1 billion class action settlement $100 million in legal fees, less than half of the original fees they requested, company officials said.
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No doubt you saw that Microsoft is coughing up $536 million to pay off an antitrust claim brought by Novell on behalf of its NetWare operating system.
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News that Microsoft must pay $1.5bn for infringing MP3 patents may have widespread effects, experts say.
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California consumers and  businesses will soon receive $1.1 billion in delayed payouts  from Microsoft Corp.  to settle antitrust claims  against the world's biggest software maker, lawyers in the case  said on Wednesday.
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A judge is ordering Microsoft Corp. to pay &#36;112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California's market.
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Microsoft Corp. on Thursday lost the first of six patent lawsuits brought by Paris-based telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, and a federal district court jury set damages at $1.5 billion.
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A U.S. federal jury found that Microsoft Corp. infringed audio patents held by Alcatel-Lucent and should pay $1.52 billion in damages, Microsoft said on Thursday.
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Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media players.
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Microsoft said today it will take a $1 billion charge to its earnings so it can offer an extended warranty to fix hardware problems on the Xbox 360.
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A federal jury's ruling that Microsoft infringed on two MP3 patents and must pay $1.52 billion in damages could turn into a major sour note for other technology companies in the digital music business.
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Microsoft Corp. Thursday filed lawsuits against 23 companies in California and Florida, alleging distribution of counterfeit software.
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Sun Microsystems faces the possibility of having to pay more than US$1 billion in damages now that a federal court jury has found the computer giant&#39;s popular Java languages infringed on a patent held by Eastman Kodak.
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Microsoft Corp.  eked out a gain in quarterly net profit despite a $1 billion charge to pay for repairs to its Xbox 360 game consoles, and the company slightly raised full-year earnings and revenue forecasts.
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People who say they were sexually  abused by priests could receive more than $1.5 billion in  damages from The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles --  more than any other U.S. diocese has paid, an attorney for more  than 100 alleged victims said on Sunday.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on Thursday it would take a more than $1 billion charge in the most recent quarter due to costs for a new extended warranty program for its Xbox 360 video game console.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Thursday said it would take a more than $1 billion charge to  fix "an unacceptable number of repairs" to its Xbox 360 video  game consoles and had missed shipment targets for the end of  June.