Jury orders Sony to pay &#36;82 million
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A federal jury Wednesday ordered Sony to pay &#36;82 million to Immersion for violating the San Jose company's patents on video game technology.
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Eleven charged in 'Digital Marauder' case that could hit &#36;87 million.
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A bidding group headlined by Sony Corp. (6758.T) agreed in principle to buy Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  for nearly &#36;5 billion on Monday, after rival bidder Time Warner Inc.  withdrew from the auction.
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- Sony Computer Entertainment said it and  Immersion Corp.  agreed to end a patent litigation and  entered into an agreement to explore the inclusion of  Immersion's technology in Sony's PlayStation format products.
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A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday ordered that residuals earned by O.J. Simpson for his past film and TV work be paid to the father of homicide victim Ron Goldman to help satisfy a $33.5 million judgment.
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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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The European Commission will fine  Microsoft  between 200 million (&#36;255 million) and 300  million euros on Wednesday to punish it for failing to carry  out antitrust sanctions, sources familiar with the situation  said on Tuesday.
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In a Feb. 20 story about the Supreme Court throwing out a damages award against Weyerhauser Co., The Associated Press reported erroneously the amount a jury said Weyerhauser should pay. The jury award was $26.25 million, not $29 million. The corrected version of this story appears below.
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Marsh & McLennan Cos.  on Monday agreed to pay &#36;850 million to settle charges it conspired with insurers to rig bids, raising hopes the world's biggest insurance broker can start to move past the scandal.
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A US jury found Microsoft guilty of infringing Alcatel-Lucent patents on Thursday and ordered the software giant to pay the French-US firm 1.5 billion dollars.
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Media giant Time Warner Inc.  will pay fines of &#36;210 million under an agreement with the U.S. government to be announced on Wednesday to settle charges that its America Online unit inflated revenue, a Justice Department official said.
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The Wachovia Corporation agreed to pay a $37 million civil fine Thursday to settle federal regulators&#39; accusations that the company violated disclosure rules
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Hewlett-Packard agrees to pay $14.5m to settle a lawsuit over its much-criticised probe into a boardroom leak.
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A jury finds that Sony's PlayStation unit infringed on two patents owned by force-feedback specialist Immersion.
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NEW YORK (Kyodo) A group of investors led by Sony Corp. said Thursday it has finalized a $4.9 billion acquisition deal with Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
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Japanese consumer electronics maker Sony  Corp (6758.T) said on Tuesday it will spend 22 billion yen  ($203.5 million) to develop technology to make medium to large  organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels.
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Time Warner Inc. agreed yesterday to pay $210 million to settle criminal securities fraud charges brought by the Justice Department against the company's America Online unit. The media giant also is prepared to pay $300 million to end another probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission.