The future of streaming video service Hulu has been decidedly hazy lately, and now Reuters is reporting that the former head of News Corp. has entered a bid to purchase the company. According to the report Peter Chernin — who currently sits on Hulu's board — offered $500 million. In March s...
Is one of Hulu's founders its savior?
Google and the City of Austin, Texas have sent out invites to a press conference for "a very important announcement" next week, according to VentureBeat, and it is expected that the two will reveal that the city will be the next to receive Google...
If you're of the opinion that politicians are unqualified to create tech policy, then know that Ben Fried, Google's chief information officer, largely agrees with you.
"The current generation of lawmakers are probably not the best informed [about technological issues]," Fried told an audience at Columbia University today. And for that reason, according to Fried, they're likely not the best...
In the latest of several swipes against patent trolls, Google has taken aim at the companies who sell off their patents so they can be used in lawsuits. Writing to the FTC and US Department of Justice, Google warned against "patent privateering" — by which it means outsourcing patent warfare by going through firms that don't make anything themselves and therefore can't be countersued. Patent trolls are almost universally reviled for aggressively suing companies on vague, sweeping patent claims. But Google claims the US government should turn its attention to the companies who created those patents in the first place.
"PAEs [Patent Assertion Entities, which litigate patents] impose tremendous costs on innovative industries," writes Google in a letter co-signed by BlackBerry, Earthlink, and Red Hat. "These costs are exacerbated by the...
Are big companies using patent trolls as 'competitive weapons?'
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There's a long tradition of using "prop" domains in films, whether to avoid liability or better control the content. For every Google, there's a Searchsies.com; for every Match.com, there's a Lovefinder. Poorly designed online fetish compendiums have their TV equivalents, as do government...
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Users of Coinbase, a Silicon Valley-funded startup that offers some Bitcoin banking services, have become the target of phishing attacks. The booming virtual currency has grown into an increasingly appealing target for hackers, soaring from a valuation of around $13 each at...
