The fallout has cost News Corp. hundreds of millions of dollars in legal costs and led to the closure of the News of the World, a raft of criminal and civil cases and the collapse of News Corp.
He is regularly quoted and his cases have been chronicled in major financial and news publications including The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, BusinessWeek, Fortune and Forbes.
Papers should concentrate on what they do best, which means, in many cases, local news and sport.
Indeed, even putting elections aside, reports of denial-of-service attacks, stolen passwords and other cases of Internet invasion are regular occurrences in the news -- and they've affected major corporations, government agencies and even security companies, Jefferson observes.
Nestled deep within the iLounge hall of CES, surrounded by numerous vendors of cheap phone cases and yesterday's news, we stumbled upon a company that didn't quite belong.
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The engineers' job is to standardize the latest court cases, news articles, scientific journal writeups and bankruptcy filings for the company's giant mainframes to catch.
They gathered participation figures from all organized U.S. marathons and half marathons from Jan. 1, 2000, to May 31, 2010, then compiled cases of cardiac arrest from race officials and news media and, when they could, obtained medical records of victims.
In both cases they said the focus was on monitoring news coverage and the reporters digging into stories the Chinese government deemed important.
Cases of domestic abuse feature on the evening news almost daily and Spain's TV chat shows, which are on morning, noon and night, regularly discuss the issue.
The report was released by New York law firm Labaton Sucharow, which specializes in representing plaintiffs in securities class action cases and whistleblower actions, together with HedgeWorld, a news and research service, and the Hedge Fund Association, a trade group.
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Olean General had not identified any specific patients who may have received an injection from another patient's pen and knew of no cases of infection, Finan said in a news release.
After initially claiming malpractice was limited to one "rogue" reporter at the News of the World, News International has now settled dozens of civil cases admitting liability for hacking between 2001 and 2006.
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Since South Africa has the world's largest number of AIDS cases, and one of its highest infection rates, this was bad news, as was Mr Mbeki's health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang , who was appointed mainly because she agreed with him, and recommended beetroot and garlic as treatment for the disease.
This summer, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association said that both Vioxx and its main competitor, Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people) drug Celebrex, may cause heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems in rare cases.
Soon the news was picked up by journalists (or in some cases they could be called professional retweeters) and the story was everywhere.
Plaintiff lawyers seized upon news reports about Beacon and filed suit on behalf of all Facebook users, and is typical in such cases, negotiated a settlement that would reward them with millions of dollars in fees.
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Successful antitrust cases against conglomerate 3M (nyse: MMM - news - people ) and dental equipment specialist Dentsply over the past few years show that judges could be growing more receptive to arguments that market-dominating companies are abusing their power.
And the good news is that because of some of the battles that were fought before you were born and, in some cases, before I was born, opportunity is opening up for more and more people -- for women, for Latinas, Latinos, for African Americans.
"Clearly there are some worrying trends, such as the fact that Customs and Excise have now investigated 101 cases this year and it was only one case three years ago, " he told BBC News Online.
As new FOIA cases address the issue of whether and under what circumstances bloggers can be considered representatives of the news media, we may revisit the issue and will keep you apprised of our views on the matter .
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Zyvox, a drug sold by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), can be given as a pill, but it has side effects, and some cases of resistance have already cropped up after only five years on the market.
"We've only got the two cases to go on and both kids recovered on their own, so that's certainly good news, " says Tom Skinner, a CDC spokesman.
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