- GlassUp raised $100K on Indiegogo — but PayPal is refusing to pay up
- PayPal unfreezes $45,000 cancer donation—Only did so when the media start asking why they blocking it in the first place.
- PayPal freezes $45,000 of Mailpile's crowdfunded dollars—"Demands 'itemized budget' from Iceland-based team before releasing funds." The utter gall. What is with Paypal and crowdfunding?
- Yahoo hands user data to Australian government
- 'WTF! MORONS!' Yahoo! Groups! redesign! traumatises! users!—It's fuglier and harder to use.
- Yahoo's 30-day logo reveal finally comes to a close—They made us wait for this?
- Facebook will not tolerate boobies of any kind
- Facebook's privacy policy won't be finalized for another week
- Facebook employees reveal the worst things about working for the social network—"Facebook employees, including engineers and software developers, have criticised Mark Zuckerberg's allegedly 'holier than thou' attitude and lack of professionalism at the company."
- Workers' rights 'flouted' at Apple iPhone factory in China—"New, cheaper device being produced illegally, non-profit organisation China Labor Watch claims."
- Apple escapes App Store restrictions in e-book conspiracy punishment
- Apple Prevents Omni Group From Offering Discounted Mac App Store Upgrades
- Apple Tries to Trademark the Word 'Startup'
- Steve Jobs' Email Shows Apple Changed In-App Purchasing Rules Specifically To Retaliate Against Amazon—Here's a very mild defense of in-app purchases.
- New gov't report on patent lawsuits is tepid, but shows a clear trend—"No shock: data show software patent suits are on the rise, driven by trolls."
- Intellectual Ventures opens DC office to push $1M lobbying effort—"World's biggest 'patent troll' has grown to 800 employees, 70,000 patents."
- Patenting everyday life: "Business method" lawsuits are growing fast—"41 percent of troll-spawned suits now involve patents on how to run your business."
- 'Patent trolls' put brakes on S.F. transit app
- Report on startups versus patent trolls
- The patent troll crisis is really a software patent crisis
- US shops and restaurants fight patent trolls—"The Internet Association is among a group of US trade bodies behind a new campaign calling for politicians to take action over patent trolls."
- "Shopping cart" patent troll tries to save itself, gets pounded by Newegg—"Newegg lawyer calls it a desperate attempt to turn a typo into a second chance."
- Minnesota: Patent Trolls Are Not Welcome Here
- New Zealand bans software patents
- Massive Patent Troll Lodsys Drops Its Bogus Patent Lawsuit Which Was Filed To Silence A Critic
- Comcast Threatens to Sue TorrentFreak for Copyright Infringement—They withdrew their DMCA-abusing complaint.
- Microsoft Censors OpenOffice Download Links—Go download LibreOffice instead.
- Fake Cable Ad Apparently Hits Too Close To Home; Bogus Defamation Claim Censors Video In Canada
- Big 3 mobile carriers under fire from Ottawa—"Industry minister and Quebecor chief say anti-Verizon campaign misleads the public."
- Consumers lose out as Verizon pulls plug on Canadian expansion
- Snubbed by Google Fiber, mad at Comcast, Baltimore seeks its own fiber—"No competition means no reason for Comcast to up speeds, lower prices."
- Comcast Fights Google Fiber in Provo With New Pricing
- Sorry, Comcast and Verizon customers: RCN delivers faster Netflix—"That free Netflix caching service big ISPs refuse to use may be working wonders."
- International Criticism Escalates Against TPP as Negotiations Go Further Underground
- American Government Propose SOPA Revival Amidst Piracy Increase Claims
- White House Copyright Czar Jumps to Industry Anti-Piracy Group
- Ministry of Sound sues Spotify—"Dance record label Ministry of Sound is suing music streaming service Spotify, claiming Spotify playlists copy its compilation albums." Suing over playlists, not the songs.
- Report: WTC naming rights sold for $10 in 1986—Now the "Port Authority pays $10,000 a year to use the words 'World Trade Center.'"
- Dear It's Parenting – Content Scraping is Stealing!
- Kim Dotcom resigns from Mega to focus on extradition battle, politics
- Of course NSA can crack crypto. Anyone can. The question is, how much?—"The known unknowns of NSA's crypto cracking."
- Court Decision Allows NSA to Search its Database for American Records Without a Warrant—Kevin Drum may have a change of heart over what he wrote.
- Brazilian TV show says U.S. spied on state-run Petrobras oil firm, cites NSA documents
