Legal & Regulatory

Bitcoin popularity leads to mini-boom in smartphone software- report

According to the South China Morning Post, the growing popularity of the Bitcoin has also led to a boom of sorts in bitcoin software for smartphones, the South China Morning Post reported.


State securities regulators ask US SEC not to preempt states

A letter written by state securities regulators asked US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White not to erode their power to police smaller public offerings, Reuters reported.

Savient Pharmaceuticals gets approval from US Bankruptcy Court to sell all assets to Crealta

A US Bankruptcy Court gave its approval to Savient Pharmaceuticals to sell all substantially all its assets to Crealta Pharmaceuticals, a firm backed by private equity company GTCR.

Intellectual Ventures settles patent case against Altera

Intellectual Ventures has settled a lawsuit it brought against chipmaker Altera Corp, according to court filings in litigation against a group of semiconductor companies filed by the firm, which has purchased billions of dollars worth of patents.


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Despite releasing the local assets back to Nokia Oyj, the Delhi High Court clarified that the Finnish company will still be liable to any remaining tax bills from the local mobile phone plant that Microsoft will be acquiring.
Saputo Inc., Canada's biggest dairy company, has extended its bid for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Co. by a week to next Friday. Saputo is up against Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Ltd. and Bega Cheese Ltd. for the Australian dairy firm, according to a Reuters report.
Bitcoins suffered a blow in Norway as the government declared that it was not real money. It will be treated as an asset and be subject to a capital gains tax, Bloomberg reported.
China Daily on Thursday quoted National Development and Reform Commission's (NDRC) anti-price-fixing bureau Xu Kunlin, who said his agency has substantive evidence to prove that chipmaker Qualcomm Inc is involved in price-fixing acts.
A South Korean court awarded Apple a legal victory on a patent infringement case filed by Samsung Electronics Co. The decision would enable Apple to continue selling its products in South Korea, Reuters said in its report.
Bondholders and large depositors in a failing bank face taking losses from the start of 2016, European Union negotiators have agreed, a European Parliament lawmaker said on Wednesday.
The Luxembourg-based General Court declared on Wednesday that Cisco's antitrust concerns regarding Microsoft Corp's takeover of the largest Internet video and voice messaging provider Skype was unfounded.
The over 900 pages of preamble and regulations regarding the Volcker Rule appeared to have excluded market-making activities of Wall Street banks, said a Bloomberg report.
The row that occurred between 23andMe Inc and the Food and Drug Administration has led to stricter oversight of the genetic testing industry, according to a Bloomberg report.
A joint statement on Tuesday revealed that Micron Technology will be paying Rambus at $10 million in royalties per quarter for a seven-year period for the former's use of the latter's DRAM memory patents.