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Online social networking game king Zynga on Tuesday said a settlement was reached with a rival accused of stealing its secrets and coaxing employees to betrayal. http://phys.org/news209754690.html Technology Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:30:01 EST news209754690 (AP) -- States with coastal water that is becoming more acidic because of carbon dioxide should list them as impaired under the Clean Water Act, the U.S. Environmental Agency said. http://phys.org/news209188394.html Space & Earth Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:57:44 EST news209188394 To Australian entrepreneur Cameron Collie, Groggle seemed the perfect name for a website comparing the price of alcohol, or 'grog' as it is known Down Under, at nearby bottleshops. http://phys.org/news208589094.html Technology Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:00:04 EST news208589094 (AP) -- Google Inc., the top Web search provider, will allocate about $8.5 million to Internet privacy and policy organizations as part of a class action settlement involving its Buzz social hub. http://phys.org/news207994580.html Technology Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:16:34 EST news207994580 (AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday approved Dell Inc.'s $100 million settlement with the government of civil fraud charges. http://phys.org/news206214788.html Technology Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:53:18 EST news206214788 (AP) -- Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. will pay $422.5 million in penalties for marketing an epilepsy medicine for unapproved uses and for paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe it and five other drugs, federal officials announced Thursday. http://phys.org/news205090070.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:28:01 EST news205090070 (AP) -- The Justice Department has reached an agreement with six major Silicon Valley companies to settle allegations that they colluded to hold down payroll expenses by agreeing not to poach employees from each other. http://phys.org/news204570482.html Technology Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:20:01 EST news204570482 New research has found that a genetic variant which reduces the chance of contracting diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy is more prevalent in populations with long histories of urban living. http://phys.org/news204456236.html Biology Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:24:31 EST news204456236 Archaeologists unearthed a Roman bust from the 2nd century AD hailed as the most important archaeological find of the last 50 years in Albania, experts said Friday. http://phys.org/news201528752.html Other Sciences Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:12:54 EST news201528752 (AP) -- Motorola Inc. on Thursday reported a sharply higher profit for the second quarter and stabilized its long revenue decline as it strategy of focusing on smart phones like the Droid bore fruit. http://phys.org/news199613671.html Technology Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:14:51 EST news199613671 (AP) -- Computer maker Dell Inc. said Friday it's getting closer to settling investigations by regulators into its accounting and the actions of CEO Michael Dell. http://phys.org/news198500833.html Technology Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:50:01 EST news198500833 Dell shares were trading slightly higher on Friday, a day after the US computer giant said it was setting aside 100 million dollars in connection with a fraud probe. http://phys.org/news195479315.html Technology Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:48:55 EST news195479315 The consent forms that people sign before participating in research are widely considered difficult to understand and sometimes inaccurate. The lack of clarity was implicated in a high-profile legal settlement in April between Arizona State University and a Native American tribe, which claimed that blood samples that its members provided for genetic research were used for purposes not stated in the consent form. Efforts have been made to improve the forms, but how effective are they? http://phys.org/news194278531.html Other Sciences Fri, 28 May 2010 15:16:10 EST news194278531 Google is prepared to "fight" if US regulators seek to block the Internet giant's purchase of mobile telephone advertising company AdMob, chief executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday. http://phys.org/news193598911.html Technology Thu, 20 May 2010 19:00:04 EST news193598911 A flyover of Belize's thick jungles has revolutionized archaeology worldwide and vividly illustrated the complex urban centers developed by one of the most-studied ancient civilizations -- the Maya. http://phys.org/news192799830.html Space & Earth Tue, 11 May 2010 13:20:16 EST news192799830 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UC Assistant Professor of Law Lynn Bai and two colleagues quantifies the self-defeating aspects for shareholders who file class-action suits against corporations where they have holdings. As an alternative, the study says, target the corporate officers who signed off on the financial misdeeds. http://phys.org/news191513685.html Other Sciences Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:50:04 EST news191513685 US photographers and illustrators sued Google for copyright infringement on Wednesday demanding compensation for images that appear in books being digitally scanned by the Internet giant. http://phys.org/news189865578.html Technology Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:40:01 EST news189865578 (AP) -- Of all the illnesses people fear might be caused by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, nothing scares people like cancer. http://phys.org/news188930232.html Medicine & Health Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:38:08 EST news188930232 (AP) -- RealNetworks Inc. said Wednesday that it will stop selling technology that lets consumers copy DVDs to their computer hard drives, settling a handful of lawsuits filed against the company by Hollywood's six major movie studios. http://phys.org/news186901143.html Technology Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:59:41 EST news186901143 (AP) -- A judge Thursday questioned whether Google and lawyers for authors and publishers went too far when they struck a deal that would let the gigantic search engine make money presiding over the world's largest digital library. http://phys.org/news185742787.html Technology Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:13:31 EST news185742787 (AP) -- Juniper Networks Inc. has agreed to pay $169 million to settle a 4-year-old lawsuit over mishandled stock options. http://phys.org/news185054203.html Technology Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:30:01 EST news185054203 (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department still thinks a proposal to give Google the digital rights to millions of hard-to-find books threatens to stifle competition and undermine copyright laws, despite revisions aimed at easing those concerns. http://phys.org/news184529118.html Technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:01:09 EST news184529118 A report published today by Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy offers concrete recommendations to U.S. negotiators on the territorial component of an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement. http://phys.org/news184342244.html Other Sciences Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:50:01 EST news184342244 News Corp. said Saturday it had reached a 500-million-dollar settlement over lawsuits filed by Valassis Communications Inc. against a division of Rupert Murdoch's entertainment and media giant. http://phys.org/news184096438.html Technology Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:10:01 EST news184096438 Critics of the revised legal settlement with US authors and publishers that would allow Google to scan and sell millions of books online filed a flurry of last-minute objections on Thursday. http://phys.org/news183925856.html Technology Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:36:42 EST news183925856 (AP) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. posted its first quarterly profit in three years because it got $1.25 billion in a legal settlement with its archrival. http://phys.org/news183322615.html Technology Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:57:11 EST news183322615 A team of chemists from the University of Valencia (UV) has confirmed that the substance used to hermetically seal an amphora found among remains at Lixus, in Morocco, was pine resin. The scientists also studied the metallic fragments inside the 2,000-year-old vessel, which could be fragments of material used for iron-working. http://phys.org/news183200556.html Chemistry Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:03:17 EST news183200556 (AP) -- Broadcom Corp. said Tuesday it will pay more than $160 million in cash to settle a class action investor lawsuit related to stock option backdating, but did not admit wrongdoing. http://phys.org/news181334783.html Technology Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:00:01 EST news181334783 A US judge set February 18 for a hearing on the revised legal settlement between Google and US authors and publishers that would allow the Internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online. http://phys.org/news177945750.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:50:01 EST news177945750 (AP) -- Google Inc. will loosen its control over millions of copyright-protected books that will be added to its digital library if a federal judge approves a revised legal settlement addressing the earlier objections of antitrust regulators. http://phys.org/news177333573.html Technology Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:06:47 EST news177333573