Some states have already undertaken measures to ban drivers from using Google Glass even if the search giant's wearable device innovation is still in its experimental stage, Bloomberg reported.
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Google gets mocked after launching anti-scraping tool Scraper Report
US-based search giant Google got mocked by several netizens yesterday after it launched the Scraper Report, a tool that fights content stealing, because according to them, the company itself is practicing web scraping.
Mt. Gox shutdown shakes up newer Bitcoin derivatives market
The shuttering of Mt. Gox did not only showcase the dangers of the crytocurrency, it also unnerved the more nascent Bitcoin derivatives market, Bloomberg reported.
United Capital Partners to file case against two Vkontakte shareholders
Russia fund United Capital Partners said it will be suing two shareholders of the social network Vkontakte, Mail.ru Group and Ivan Tavrin, East-West Digital News reported.
German court rules in favor of Apple in IPCom GmBH & Co patent lawsuit
A Mannheim court dismissed the $2.2 billion lawsuit filed against it by patent holding firm IPCom in Germany on one of the "100" series patents the latter acquired from Robert Bosch GmBH, Bloomberg reported.
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U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White dismissed the lawsuit filed against San Francisco, California-based social game maker Zynga in which shareholders accused the company of lying about its financial status before it went public.
Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, went dark on Tuesday, with its website down, its Tokyo office empty, and a cryptic comment from its chief executive that the business was at "a turning point."
Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse were hired by Chinese Internet firm Sina to take care of the debut of its microblogging platform Weibo in New York, according to sources interviewed by the Financial Times.
The top smartphone makers in the world, Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics, failed to reach a settlement agreement on their smartphone technology dispute in a meeting with a mediator in the first week of February, Bloomberg reported.
A former investment banker and senior manager at Evercore Group, Frank Perkins Hixon Jr, faces charges of insider trading in cases filed by US authorities, Reuters reported.
Venture capitalist Tim Draper planned to split California into six states and make Silicon Valley a separate state, and the plan has not gained approval to collect signatures for voting.
The crisis Mt. Gox is facing has provided Bitcoin speculators with a grand buying opportunity that could give them a chance to earn a profit if the withdrawal ban gets lifted, CNNMoney reported.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed that they arrested Jon Miller, the founder of San Francisco, US-based real-world analytics startup Motionloft, in connection with a false claim about an acquisition of the firm.
San Francisco, US-based startup software developer Strevus bagged $6.5 million in its first institutional funding led by Blumberg Capital and US Venture Partners for compliance solutions for financial services firms.
