Yahoo! China sued over software pushing allegations
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A Beijing software group is suing Yahoo! China in an attempt to stop the company secretly foisting their programmes on to computer users, state press have said.
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(InfoWorld) - A Chinese journalist jailed in part due to e-mail evidence provided by a Yahoo subsidiary plans to file a lawsuit in the U.S. against the Internet company within the next few months. "We're also trying to line up other victims for a class-action. We've been in touch with a few others, but we haven't signed anyone up yet. It's a very sensitive issue because there could be reprisals against their families," said Albert Ho, a legislator in Hong Kong and lawyer in the case, in a telephone interview. A Yahoo spokeswoman in Hong Kong could not be reached for comment. A U.S.Â civil suit against YahooÂ on behalf of Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist convicted of "divulging state secrets" by Beijing in partÂ due to an e-mail Yahoo providedÂ to Chinese authorities, will likely be filed in either New York or California, Ho said. Tao's e-mail, sent from a Yahoo account in April, 2004 to a pro-China democracy Web site in New York, contained a Beijing order for officials to be on guard for unrest and dissident activity ahead of the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The new lawsuit would come just months after Ho filed a complaint to Hong Kong authorities against Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong) on behalf of Tao. It also comes at a time whenÂ international pressure is increasingÂ on Internet companies to handle the private data of their users more carefully, particularly with respect to human rights. Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders have both criticized Yahoo over the Tao incident, and a group of U.S. lawmakersÂ blasted a group of Internet companiesÂ earlier this year, including Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems, for failing to uphold free expression in China. "Internet companies should not disclose personal information that could violate the basic human rights of their users," Ho said. He said Tao, who is not a U.S. citizen, could file a lawsuit in the country under the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789. The group has not yet decided on a U.S. law firm to retain for the case, nor would Ho divulge the specific strategy or damages the group intends to seek. The Hong Kong case remains pending because an investigation by authorities has not been finished yet, Ho said. Yahoo could face a fine, a civil lawsuit, or both if Hong Kong's Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data rules that it illegally divulged personal data used to put Tao in jail. The plaintiffs argue that Yahoo Hong Kong had no right to comply with a request from China for Tao's personal data, and requested that the office investigate the matter. Yahoo has denied any involvement in the case by its Hong Kong arm. The company has said any information provided to Chinese authorities in this case would have come from Yahoo's operations in China, rather than Hong Kong. However, Yahoo's Chinese and Hong Kong operations were both part of the same corporate entity, Yahoo Hong Kong, at that time In 2005, Alibaba.com acquired Yahoo's Chinese operations as part of a deal that saw Yahoo take a stake in the Chinese Internet company.
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A human rights group in the US sues Yahoo for alleged complicity in rights abuses and acts of torture in China.
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A Chinese company has taken Google's China operations to court over what it says is an infringement of the Chinese translation of its name, "Guge," according to court documents.
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US Internet giant Yahoo!, accused of providing information that led to the jailing of a Chinese journalist, did not violate privacy laws, the Hong Kong government said Wednesday.
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Yahoo Inc.  has filed a  motion to dismiss a lawsuit over the company's alleged role in  the imprisonment of two Chinese dissidents, arguing U.S. courts  have no jurisdiction over Chinese government actions against  its own citizens.
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A Chinese company is suing Google  Inc.'s China subsidiary for copying its name, saying the U.S.  search engine's registered Chinese name is too similar to its  own and has harmed its operations.
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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) -- the international representative of the movie industry -- has filed a civil suit against Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technology, which operates a a peer-to-peer file sharing service based in China called Xunlei that's part-owned by Google.
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BMW and DaimlerChrysler are threatening legal action against alleged Chinese copies of their cars, a report says.
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A Beijing company has taken Google's Chinese division to court over the search company's Mandarin name.
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By DIKKY SINN  HONG KONG - A jailed Chinese reporter accused of leaking state secrets has joined a U.S. lawsuit claiming Yahoo Inc. helped the Chinese government convict dissidents, his mother said Sunday.
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The International Federation of Phonographic Industries said Thursday that Yahoo China lost its appeal in a piracy lawsuit the group filed against the company.
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China has been accused of blocking access to Google News by the media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders. The Paris-based pressure group said the English-language news site had been unavailable for the past 10 days.
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Yahoo wants a California court to dismissÂ a lawsuit brought against the company by jailed Chinese dissidents.
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(InfoWorld) - Alibaba.com's Yahoo China unit has filed an unfair competition lawsuit against the company founded by its former general manager. Yahoo China says Beijing Sanjiwuxian Internet Technology Co.,, which operates the Qihoo.com Web portal, distributed software that reports the Yahoo Toolbar as malware and urges users to uninstall it. Yahoo Toolbar is available free for download, and includes protection against viruses and malware, as well as easy access to Yahoo services, such as the Yahoo search engine and Yahoo Mail. It also adds tabbed browsing capabilities Internet Explorer. The software distributed by Sanjiwuxian is called 360safe and violates Chinese laws against unfair competition, Alibaba said in a statement. The lawsuit was filed in Beijing's No.2 Intermediate Peopleâs Court, it said. Alibaba is seeking injunctive relief to immediately and permanently stop the distribution of 360safe, as well as damages and a public apology. The lawsuit steps up the legal battle between Yahoo China and Qihoo, which was founded by former Yahoo China General Manager Zhou Hongyi. In August, Zhou sued Yahoo China in the same Beijing court, saying the company had insulted and libeled him. Zhou left Yahoo China in 2005, after Yahoo transferred its operations to Alibaba. He sued after Alibaba published an article on its Web site that accused him of "pressuring and intimidating" Yahoo China staff to leave the company, Qihoo.com said in an August statement. "Yahoo China's remarks had a defamatory nature, which shocked insiders," it said.
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A Beijing court has upheld a ruling  that Yahoo China violates Chinese law by facilitating mass  copyright infringement through music downloads, the  International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)  said.
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3M filed suit this week in Minneapolis, Minn. against computer makers Sony and Lenovo, along with a handful of other firms, for allegedly infringing on its patents related to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The company also asked that imports of the batteries be blocked.