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She's the only person to go all the way to court when sued by the recording industry over music file-sharing -- and this week, she'll be fighting back again.... a federal judge decided last September that he made a mistake in telling jurors that the companies didn't have to prove that anyone downloaded the songs she had allegedly made available....
Six Flags Inc., the owner of 20 theme parks, sought bankruptcy protection 3 1/2 years after Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder become chairman and hired new managers in an attempt to return it to profitability.
Norman Brinker, a restaurant mogul who popularized the salad bar and built a worldwide casual dining empire that includes Chili's Grill & Bar, died Tuesday at age 78.... developed the concept for Steak & Ale... where he's credited with popularizing the salad bar and casual dining... created the Bennigan's chain and became known for creating a "fern bar" restaurant chain concept...
Her grandmother bought Danskin shoes for her at the Owasso Wal-Mart. She says the shoes had a strange odor, so she washed them and when Tylie wore them again, her instep and toes looked burned.... shoes have made in China tags....
...Ida Red is full of opportunities to rekindle long gone memories by picking up a Zagnut candy bar or some Clove and Black Jack gum... Candy and soda's popular, but the central focus of Ida Red is music and musical history, specifically Cain's Ballroom...
CNN News was in town Tuesday to highlight the accomplishments of two Tulsa-based businesses... SeekingSitters and Just Between Friends...
Novelist JD Salinger takes legal action to block a book billed as a follow-up to his classic book The Catcher in the Rye.
Beginning with the opening bell on Monday, June 8, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will have two new components: The Travelers Companies Inc. (TRV) instead of Citigroup Inc. (C), and Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) instead of General Motors Corp.
General Motors Corp said on Thursday it had reached a deal with some major bondholders that would give them a bigger stake in a reorganized automaker and could pave the way for a fast-track bankruptcy backed by the U.S. Treasury within days. The announcement was the clearest indication yet that GM, the No. 1 U.S. automaker, is close to filing for bankruptcy under the direction of the Obama administration. It would be the biggest-ever bankruptcy for a U.S. industrial company.
graduate student stands accused of sharing copyrighted music files for years on P2P networks. Tenenbaum is defended by Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson, but the Free Software Foundation has also shoved its oar into the water and is paddling around a bit, trying to make some waves.
No one's happy about The Pirate Bay verdict. The site admins, who are now on the hook for a collective 30 million kronor in damages plus one year each in jail, have charged that the judge was biased. But the movie and music businesses have filed an appeal of their own, saying that the 30 million kronor in damages wasn't nearly enough
Last month, a Swedish court found the four men behind the popular Pirate Bay website guilty of assisting copyright infringement, sentencing each of them to one year in prison and a $905,000 fine. Shortly afterword, Pirate Bay lawyer Peter Althin demanded a retrial due to bias -- given the trial's judge is a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives. A second judge was tasked with determining bias has themselves been removed from said task -- for bias....
A Tulsa-based company has reason to celebrate. FreshBerry Frozen Yogurt Cafes are going international. Its parent company, Beautiful Brands, has signed a deal with a Saudi based company to put 120 locations in the Middle East and North Africa. The first six stores open this summer.
No one was willing to pay $25,000 for what's believed to be an original recipe for Dr Pepper. Bill Waters of Tulsa said he found the Dr Pepper Pepsin Bitters recipe in an old pharmacy's book of formulas.
losses related to software piracy amounted to $50 billion USD last year, an 11 percent increase from last year. [Making certain assumptions about the actual value of piracy....]
Google and 47 other international corporations have been sued in a US District Court for trademark infringement over their use of the word "Android." To Google, Android is the name of its open-source, Linux-based operating system for phones and mobile devices that it introduced in November of 2007. To Erich Specht, a software developer and internet applications service provider in the Village of Palatine, Illinois, Android is the part of the name of his company, Android Data, for which he was granted a trademark in October of 2002 by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
'Whatever will they bring out next? Drug-addict Barbie? Alcoholic Barbie?'
David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of money-losing mortgage giant Freddie Mac, was found dead at his home early Wednesday in what police said was an apparent suicide.... Some neighbors said Kellermann had lost a noticeable amount of weight under the strain of the job, and some said they suggested to him he should quit to avoid the stress.... was named acting chief financial officer last September when the government seized control of the company and ousted top executives. Freddie Mac lost more than $50 billion last year, and the government has pumped in $45 billion to keep the company afloat.... death is the latest in a string of blows to Freddie Mac, which owns or guarantees about 13 million mortgages and us the No. 2 mortgage finance company after sibling Fannie Mae. The company has been criticized for financing risky mortgage loans that fueled the real estate bubble, and its first government-appointed CEO, David Moffett, resigned last month after six months on the job. As the company's financial chief, Kellermann was working on the company's first quarter financial report, due at the end of May, with federal regulators closely overseeing the company's books and signing off on major decisions.... Kellermann was neither a target nor a subject of the investigation and had not been under law enforcement scrutiny....
A Swedish court today found the Pirate Bay guilty of copyright infringement, otherwise known as pirating (surprise!). With all the news lately of pirates capturing ships off the Somali coast, it's easy to forget that online pirates are out there as well.
IS this the filthiest fast-food joint in Australia? Countless discarded brown paper bags and burger wrappers lay strewn across the floor, piled up in trampled heaps around the tables and chairs. Abandoned soft drinks, squashed chips and other rubbish cover the table tops as diners sit eating amidst the detritus. Welcome to McDonald's on Hindley St.
advertisement for Burger King's chili-flavored "Texican" burger that has run in Europe shows a small wrestler dressed in a cape resembling a Mexican flag. The wrestler teams up with a lanky American cowboy twice his height to illustrate the cross-border blend of flavors. "The taste of Texas with a little spicy Mexican," a narrator's voice says. The much-taller cowboy boosts the wrestler up to reach high shelves and clean tall windows, while the Mexican helps the cowboy open a jar. Mexico's ambassador to Spain said Monday he has written a letter to Burger King's offices in that nation objecting to the ad and asking that it be removed. Jorge Zermeno told Radio Formula that the ads "improperly use the stereotyped image of a Mexican." [As opposed to the proper use of the stereotyped image of a Mexican??]
The regional chain In-N-Out Burger has held its own against giants Burger King and McDonald's by stressing employee retention
Food marketers have come to realize that simplicity sells.... "It's a convergence of health, food safety, taste and traceability," said Phil Lempert, a food and consumer behavior analyst who calls himself the Supermarket Guru. "People are reading labels more carefully than they were previously. When they pick up a product and it has 30 ingredients and they don't know what half of them are, they are putting it back on the shelves."
After years of non-stop growth, global wine consumption started to retreat last year, along with the rest of the world economy... latest figures on wine making and drinking around the world reveal a few key shifts. For the first time, the United States surpassed Italy in terms of total wine consumption, with 27.3 million hectoliters compared to 26 million for Italy, the group said. On the vineyard end, European vineyards accounted for less than half the world's grape production for the first time last year.
The Associated Press will cut fees paid by U.S. newspapers that run its news coverage and says it will challenge websites that run its news content for free.
Tropicana's rebranding debacle did more than create a customer-relations fiasco. It hit the brand in the wallet. After its package redesign, sales of the Tropicana Pure Premium line plummeted 20%.... company announced it would bow to consumer demand and scrap the new packaging....
It was followed by a wave of protests from equality groups and led to an investigation by the country's anti-discrimination authorities. The company is, however, sticking to its guns and a spokesman explained that the move was based on statistical research rather than superstition. 'A statistical study indicated that almost all of our best employees across Austria have one of the five star signs. 'We only decided to continue with that system and hire the best workers....'
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