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Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft petition US over surveillance requests

The companies made a renewed push for greater transparency around data requests related to national security

Google’s rivals want to review new concessions in EU antitrust case

Google offered the European Commission new concessions to settle a long-running antitrust investigation case last week

Federal judge upholds Apple’s 30% take on in-app e-book sales

After antitrust conviction, Apple App Store rules remain in place

Yahoo: More than 12,000 US data requests led to disclosures more than 11,000 times

And that's just so far this year, according to Yahoo's first transparency report, released Friday

Court bars Apple from making industry-wide e-book deals

Apple vows an appeal of the injunction

Microsoft wins jury trial in patent dispute with Motorola

The jury was to decide whether Motorola breached its agreements to provide certain technology to Microsoft on fair and reasonable terms

FTC: Negligence by security camera vendor harms customers’ privacy

The security camera seller didn't use secure software, and hundreds of customers were exposed online, the FTC says

Two sentenced to prison for point-of-sale credit card theft

The Romanian men targeted hundreds of computers at U.S. merchants, the DOJ says

APT malware NetTraveler learning new tricks

File hosting service must scan for copyright infringing files, German federal court rules

This ruling might mean the end for file hosters like Rapidshare in Germany, a lawyer said