And Justice for All?

  (FEDERALJACK)   Without the question mark, this is the tail-end of the statement in the Pledge of Allegiance, represented by the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, south of Ellis Island at the New York port of entrance into the United States. Since 1886 that declaration has inspired an endless number of immigrants, coming [...]

Facebook Suit Over Subscriber Tracking Seeks $15 Billion

Facebook Inc. (FB), the social network operator whose shares began trading today, was sued for $15 billion in an amended complaint by subscribers who claim the company invaded their privacy by tracking their Internet use. In the complaint filed yesterday in federal court in San Jose, California, the plaintiffs say Facebook improperly tracked users even [...]

Twitter fights request for Occupy protester’s data

ShareThis Twitter fights request for Occupy protester’s data 08 May 2012 Twitter Inc filed a motion in a New York criminal court on Tuesday seeking to quash a subpoena for Tweets and account records associated with Malcolm Harris, a Twitter user who was arrested last fall on the Brooklyn Bridge during an Occupy protest. Prosecutors [...]

What’s in that OJ? Tropicana is sued

Lewis said the unit of PepsiCo Inc actually puts the juice through extensive processing, adding aromas and flavors that change its “essential nature” and give it a longer shelf life. This deception lets Tropicana charge more than rivals and helps fuel more than $5 billion of annual sales worldwide, according to Lewis, who lives in [...]

Lipitor best selling drug in history

Nicknamed “turbostatin,” Lipitor became the top-selling statin barely three years after it was launched. It’s provided 20 percent to 25 percent of Pfizer Inc.’s annual revenue for years. But after nearly a decade as the top-selling drug, Lipitor is set to be toppled in 2012 after getting its first generic rivals four weeks ago. It’s [...]

Record U.S. Exports Led by Caterpillar Seen in Worldwide Markets

By Shobhana Chandra, Bloomberg.com U.S. exports, a driver of expansion in the world’s largest economy, will grow next year even as a sovereign-debt crisis pushes Europe into recession. The euro area’s share of overseas sales for American-made goods has dwindled to 13 percent from 19 percent at the peak in the early 1990s, according to [...]

Save the Internet and Boycott these Companies

(THE INTEL HUB)   Note: This paragraph that appeared in an article on netmagizine really sums up how this act could be used to specifically attack alternative media! Suw Charman-Anderson, a social software consultant and writer, told us that SOPA is too broad, fails to understand the technology it’s trying to control, and would have some [...]

Brian (USWGO) wants you to protest Stephens Inc. because of their war on bloggers, Alt news…

Author: Brian D. Hill Brian Hill of USWGO is asking everybody reading this to start organizing protests or joining in on a protest on the fact that the RIAA is thinking about working with Righthaven LLC discovered by TechDirt. If the RIAA works with Righthaven then this could set a dangerous precedent which will mean [...]

Marshals ordered to seize Righthaven assets

(VEGAS INC)   Las Vegas copyright infringement lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC’s financial problems grew Tuesday when the federal court in Las Vegas commanded the U.S. Marshals Service to seize more than $ 63,000 in Righthaven assets to satisfy a creditor’s judgment and costs. Lance Wilson, clerk of the court, signed a writ of execution requested by [...]

South Carolina mine sparks mini-gold rush

By Harriet McLeod | Reuters A Canadian mining company and a tiny South Carolina town are leading what could be a modern gold rush to the southeastern United States. Romarco Minerals Inc. reopened the historic Haile Gold Mine near Kershaw, S.C., this year and expects to pour its first gold bar there in early 2014, [...]