Joe Mullin

A major battle over cloud-music services has been resolved, and on balance, it looks like a pretty solid win for the small music-locker service run...

The Federal Trade Commission is concerned about the state of online privacy, but the agency doesn’t believe it has the legal authority—yet—to take action against...

Righthaven had a major setback recently, after a judge ordered it to pay more than $34,000 in legal fees.

When it comes to privacy law, the exploding world of mobile apps are pretty much the wild west.

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has asked a judge at the International Trade Commission to sanction Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), saying that the company revealed “highly confidential source...

Just seven weeks after Viacom (NYSE: VIA) filed a lawsuit against Cablevision’s TV-over-iPad app, the companies have resolved the issue.

Controversial copyright-enforcer Righthaven continues to fumble in its case against Democratic Underground; a lawsuit that’s already been thrown out and has resulted in a $5,000...

The lawyers in Paul Allen’s new lawsuit find themselves this week exactly where they didn’t want to end up—facing a big delay in their effort...

Internet companies are hit with patent suits regularly—often in inconvenient venues—and they’d all be a lot happier if those lawsuits were all heard in the...

When Paul Ceglia first claimed he owned half of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook shares, not too many people paid attention.

Patent-holding company Lodsys has jumped the gun on its own timeline for litigation against app developers—apparently in an attempt to order to have a better...

The same day that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) held a high-profile launch event for its new mobile payment system, but now it looks like another big...

In many ways, the series of articles about online privacy that the Wall Street Journal began publishing last year has set the tone for the...

Copyright enforcement company Righthaven has filed nearly all of its lawsuits—nearly 300 now—in two states, Nevada and Colorado.

Copyright enforcer Righthaven is on the ropes in its home state of Nevada, where defense lawyers are attacking its agreement with the Las Vegas Review-Journal,...

Late last year, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) began integrating its search results with Facebook—showing Bing searchers which results their friends “liked” on Facebook, for example.

Zediva is a quirky online movie rental business, launched in March.

In a hearing marked by odd points and side-tracks, representatives from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) told a Senate committee today that their...

Almost every technology company these days is starting to take some heat over privacy issues, and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is certainly no exception.

The fate of Limewire and its founder Mark Gorton is now in the hands of a panel of New York jurors.