Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google settle gambling ads charges with DOJ
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The three largest Internet advertising firms will pay a total of $31 million to the US Government, settling allegations by the Justice Dept. that they provided advertising services for online gambling sites.
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InfoWorld - While observers believe that Microsoft is willing to pay Yahoo $44 billion primarily for its users and advertising base, Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, wants to grow its developer community as well.
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Agrees to forfeit $100 million, spill the beans House of Cards The Neteller prosecutions blew open recently with the announcement by the US Attorney's office that founder Stephen Lawrence has agreed to a plea deal, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, involving "one count of conspiracy to use the wires to transmit in interstate and foreign commerce bets and wagering information; to conduct illegal gambling businesses; to engage in international financial transactions for the purpose of promoting illegal gambling; and to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business."â¦
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DOJ announces arrests, convictions for online fraud and other Net-related crimes.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is scheduled to respond this week to a lawsuit claiming restrictions on online gaming ads violate First Amendment protections of free speech.
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Unwanted e-mail from affiliates of an adult-entertainment company have garnered a $465,000 penalty in a settlement with the FTC, the latest in the agency's successful crackdown on sexually explicit junk e-mail.
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Federal prosecutors have announced the convictions of three Oregon residents, saying they had colluded to buy and resell some $29 million worth of Microsoft software intended for educational institutions to non-academic customers.
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The three largest Internet companies have agreed to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations they took ads for illegal gambling, the U.S. Attorney for eastern Missouri said Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - An Internet business that sold people's telephone and credit-card records has agreed to settle charges that it violated U.S. law, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Thursday. Integrity Security & Investigation Services and its owner, Edmund Edmister, will give up $2,700, the entire amount the company earned from selling phone records and credit card transaction reports, the FTC said. The settlement also bars the company from obtaining and selling confidential phone and credit account records unless authorized by law or court order. The FTC in MayÂ filed federal court complaintsÂ against five Web-based operations allegedly engaged in pretexting, attempting to obtain phone or other personal records from companies by pretending to be the targeted customer. Integrity Security & Investigation Services is the first firm to settle with the FTC; charges are still pending against the four remaining companies. The U.S. Congress has beenÂ investigating pretextingÂ since early this year, but the practice gained national attention last month whenÂ Hewlett-Packard officials revealedÂ pretexting had been used to gain access to the phone records of employees, board members and journalists. Private investigators employed by HP allegedly used pretexting in an investigation of board leaks in 2005 and 2006. The agency dismissed charges against F. Lynne Moseley and Tracey Edmister, Integrity Security & Investigation Services corporate officers. The FTC determined they played no role in operating the business.
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Research In Motion and Samsung have resolved a lawsuit in which RIM claimed Samsung misled users about e-mail capabilities in its BlackJack smart phone.
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The New York Times revealed Saturday that Google was the unidentified party mentioned in a US Dept. of Justice status report last March as having lodged a "middleware-related complaint" against Microsoft.  In addition, a memo by a key antitrust enforcement official that the Times also turned up, rejecting Google's arguments and advising states' prosecutors to reject them as well.
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Brocade Communications Systems and Mercury Interactive became the first two companies to pay fines to settle federal accusations of civil fraud in connection with backdated stock options.
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Three people have pleaded guilty to charges related to spam e-mail that promised U.S. victims millions of dollars from an estate and a lottery, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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The companies settle a lawsuit in which the software giant was accused of poaching smart-phone trade secrets.
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A pornography bill-processing  company has agreed to forego $17 million that it billed  computer users in order to settle deceptive-business charges,  the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.
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Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo have agreed to pay a total of $31.5 million to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.Microsoft will pay $21 million, Google will pay $3 million, and Yahoo will pay $7.5 million, the DOJ said in a news release. The three companies neither contest nor admit that they promoted illegal online gambling by running advertisements for gambling Web sites between 1997 and this year.The settlements stem from an investigation into illegal online gambling by U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway of the Eastern District of Missouri, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. Hanaway&#39;s office indicted the founder of Betonsports.com, 10 other people, and four companies on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and fraud in a crackdown on online gambling on June 1, 2006.Hanaway filed a new indictment against Betonsports, three other companies, and 12 people on June 28 of this year.Unregulated online gambling is illegal in the United States, the DOJ said. The three companies were accused of procuring participants via the advertisements they ran for illegal activity. Those actions fall under the U.S. aiding and abetting statute, the agency said.The Microsoft settlement includes a $4.5 million fine and a $7.5 million contribution to the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The company also agreed to create a $9 million online advertising campaign, focused on young people, saying that online gambling is illegal under U.S. law. The campaign will run for three years, beginning in early 2008, the DOJ said.Yahoo has paid $3 million to the U.S. government, and it will provide $4.5 million worth of online advertising to a public-service campaign designed to inform users that operators and participants in online or telephone-based sports and casino-type gambling in the United States may be subject to arrest and prosecution.&quot;These sums add to the over $40 million in forfeitures and back taxes this office has already recovered in recent years from operators of these remote-control illegal gambling enterprises,&quot; Hanaway said in a statement. &quot;Honest taxpayers and gambling industry personnel who do follow the law suffer from those who promote illegal online behavior.&quot;Google said, in a statement, that it has cooperated with the investigation. &quot;While we did not admit any wrongdoing, the Department of Justice has advised that online gambling is illegal in the United States and ads to promote it are improper,&quot; the company said. &quot;Google voluntarily discontinued running such ads, which were a very small part of our AdWords business, in April 2004.&quot;Yahoo said it stopped running ads for gambling sites &quot;years ago,&quot; according to a statement. &quot;After the U.S. Attorney&#39;s Office contacted Yahoo with its concerns, we worked cooperatively over several years to reach this settlement,&quot; the company said.Microsoft was preparing a statement Wednesday afternoon.
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Cingular, Priceline and Travelocity settled with New York state's attorney general over adware charges.