Last week we reported that a Texas company, Firepond, filed a federal lawsuit against Google, seeking class action status over allowing the sale of the sale of keywords under trademarked terms, for all trademark holders in the state of Texas. On Thursday, Van Nuys, Calif.-based real estate investment guru John Beck, filed suit, in the federal court for the eastern district of Texas, this time … [Read more...]
Online Drugstore Massive Criminal Trial Ends In Florida With All Charges Dropped
The government originally charged 13 defendants in a 2007, in an indictment in connection with the dispensing of prescription medications and diet drugs on the Internet through a series of websites under the company name of E.V.A Global, Inc. Among the defendants in US v. Hernandez, et al., were physicians, pharmacists, a prescription drug wholesaler and software programmers, all whom were … [Read more...]
Another Huge Brand Goes On The Auction Block
The Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has approved procedures for the sale of the intellectual property of home furnishings and jewelry retailer Fortunoff, including the domain, Fortunoff.com. The auction is scheduled for June 18 in New York at the offices of law firm Sidley Austin LLP. A bid deadline of June 16 has been set and a sale approval hearing set for June 22. … [Read more...]
Google Changes Its Policy To Allow Advertisers To Use Trademark Terms In Ad Text
The other day we wrote about Google announcing a new policy that would allow advertisers to buy trademarked keywords. We also wrote about a class action suit that was filed this week against Google for similar conduct. Today Google went a step further and announced that not only can you buy keywords for trademarked terms, but you can under certain circumstances, advertisers can now use … [Read more...]
Google Suffers Widespread Outages Today
According to numerous news sources and reports it appears Google suffered widespread outage affecting many of its online services today. Most Google properties were inaccessible to users across the U.S. and worldwide from about 10:45 a.m. until about 12:20 p.m. EDT. People from coast-to-coast and as far as China, Australia, and France were all impacted. The outage, quickly dubbed #googlefail … [Read more...]
YummyNames.com Makes Tucows.com A Cool Million
Tucows.com reported earnings after the market closed today Elliot Noss, President and CEO of Tucows said "we saw continued strength in domain registrations through our wholesale services business, marked by the highest number of new registrations since the second quarter of 2000 and strong year-over-year growth in renewal transactions." "In our YummyNames branded domain portfolio … [Read more...]
So What Did Google Show Off Today In Their Web Press Conference? Plenty
What did Google unveil in its Web press conference today? A slew of new and future features on Tuesday, including one that will allow people to better coordinate Internet searches on their cellphones and computers and another that will produce sophisticated automated research reports. At a briefing at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, executives demonstrated tools To … [Read more...]