Internet Giants Settle U.S. Case on Gambling Ads
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Microsoft, Yahoo and Google agreed to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations that they had accepted ads for illegal gambling.
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Companies say they have "resolved" dispute over three voice over Internet protocol patents. Precise amount of settlement depends on whether appeals court agrees to review case.
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Time Warner is expected to announce a settlement with the Justice Department in its investigation of advertising deals between America Online and smaller Internet companies that may
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By Matt Richtel and Thomas Crampton  Al Baker contributed reporting. *  Broadening the U.S. attack on Internet gambling, law enforcement agents in New York have arrested the chairman of Sportingbet, which offers online sports betting and is traded on the London Stock Exchange.
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Regulation of online betting on the cards
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An Arkansas judge Thursday approved a $90 million settlement between Google Inc. and advertisers who claimed the Internet search engine company improperly billed them for "clicks" that didn't lead to genuine customers seeking their products.
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Online gambling firms faced their  biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress passed  legislation to end Internet gaming there, threatening jobs and  wiping 3.5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) off company values.
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Research In Motion Ltd.    and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.  have  settled a lawsuit in which RIM alleged the South Korean  electronics giant had infringed on its well-known BlackBerry  trademark with its competing BlackJack smartphone.
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The operator of a gambling news site on the Internet has asked a federal judge to declare that advertisements in U.S. media for foreign online casinos and sports betting outlets are protected by free-speech rights.
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$31m appeases gambler-hating government Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! have spilled a total of $31.5m to settle claims they promoted one of the most un-American of activities: online gambling.â¦
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Online gaming shares steady after heavy losses caused by the arrest of a top Sportingbet boss in the US.
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Time Warner has agreed to pay more than $500 million to settle wide-ranging criminal and civil allegations that its America Online division improperly pumped up revenue and engaged
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The U.S. governmentÂs move to criminalize the processing of online wagers led to a Black Mondy for the online-gambling industry.
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The World Trade Organization explained yesterday why it had ruled that the United States violated its international trade obligations by prohibiting Americans from gambling over the Internet.
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(InfoWorld) - The sellers of the Spyware Slayer antispyware program have agreed to pay US$300,000 in fines to settle charges that they violated Washington State spyware and consumer protection laws. Both the charges and the settlement were filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court in Seattle, said Washington State Assistant Attorney General Katherine Tassi. Two companies, both controlled by the same owners, were named in the settlement, she said: High Falls Media LLC, of Hilton, New York, and Roc Telecommunications LLC, of Rochester, New York. Company associates Thomas Tortora, Mark Libutti and Brian Einhaus, all of New York, were also named as defendants. They could not be reached immediately for comment, and the freepcscan.com Web site used to market Spyware Slayer was no longer active on Wednesday. High Falls promoted Spyware Slayer with false pop-up ads warning victims that their computer was infected with spyware, Tassi said. If the victim tried to leave the site, another pop-up cautioned, "if you leave now, damage could be done by harmful worms, viruses, adware, spyware, malware or hacker code." These ads "were essentially startling consumers into believing that they had spyware on their computer," Tassi said. "They had a pop-up that said 'we have detected a 99 percent chance that you have spyware on your computer,' and this was just an advertisement. They had not done anything to detect anything." This type of inducement is illegal under Washington's Computer Spyware Act, but has become an "all too common mode of marketing security software," Tassi said. "We do see this as an increasing trend: the exploiting of consumer fears over spyware and adware as a way of marketing software products." Las week, Washington's attorney general announced a similar settlement with a New York man who used pop-up ads designed to look like Internet Explorer alerts. He was marketing a program called QuikShield Security, she said. Roc Telecommunications ran a number of music download sites, including 24/7 Downloads, Free Download Club, and MP3s Unlimited, which also engaged in deceptive marketing practices, Tassi said. The defendants have not admitted any wrongdoing under the agreement and will have the bulk of their $300,000 fine suspended, provided that they comply with the terms of the agreement and no longer misrepresent what they are selling. "They pay $25,000 of that and then the remaining portion hangs over their head as an incentive to comply with the injunctive provisions," Tassi said. The defendants must also pay $30,000 in legal fees and provide refunds to Washington state residents who purchased their products.
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The costs of policing a new U.S.   Internet gambling ban for banks and credit card companies will   be determined by regulators in the coming months, industry   officials said on Monday.
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Time Warner Inc. will pay $210 million to settle charges that its America Online unit fraudulently inflated its revenue figures. Separately, it is expected to pay about $300 million to settle SEC charges related to its buyout of a stake held by Germany's Bertelsmann AG in AOL Europe.