Google To Pay 90 Million USD to Settle Click-Fraud Class Action Lawsuit

December 11th, 2005 Google, Inc. has been sued by AIT, a "two-time" INC 500 Company, who has advertised with Google for years, as the representative plaintiff in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

June 16th, 2009 In a recent event, software major Microsoft Corp has filed a lawsuit against three individuals based in Vancouver, accusing them of breaching Microsoft's adCenter contract through a click fraud to make profit.  The suite was filed in a U.S. federal court in Seattle against the three individuals- Eric Lam, Gordon Lam and Melanie Suen, and companies that they control.

July 26th, 2006 Google has released new anti-fraud measures that provides its advertisers reports of invalid clicks through its AdWords system. Advertisers that use Google AdWords can now run campaign and account performance reports that include data about invalid clicks.

July 14th, 2006 US Federal court judge, Jeremy Fogel, dismissed Kinderstart's, education website, lawsuit against Google. The lawsuit accused Google of ""pervasive monopolistic practices" that denied its free speech rights, destroyed competition, and led to predatory pricing conditions".

July 14th, 2007 In Firefox when you click on a file to download / view the browser comes up with a prompt which allows you to either open the file with a specified program or save it to disk. You are also given the option to "Do this automatically for files like this from now on".

July 18th, 2006 Another lawsuit has been filed, in U.S. District Court in Seattle, against Microsoft over Windows Genuine Advantage, alleging that the anti-piracy tool is spyware.

July 24th, 2006 As part of the settlement in the click-fraud case - Lane’s Gifts v. Google, Google had agreed to have an independent expert examine click-fraud detection methods, policies, practices, and procedures and make a determination of whether or not Google have implemented reasonable measures to protect their advertisers.

September 21st, 2005 The Authors Guild and a Lincoln biographer, a children's book author, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States filed a class action suit today in federal court in Manhattan against Google over its unauthorized scanning and copying of books through its Google Library program. The suit alleges that Google is engaging in massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers.

June 28th, 2006 Sometime back Sony BMG released DRM rootkit software. At that time Sony insisted that no one should care about the Sony BMG rootkits because most people had no clue what rootkits were.

January 6th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Hyderabad police are not likely to take any action on their own against B. Ramalinga Raju, who Wednesday admitted to a Rs.40 billion fraud while resigning as chairman of IT major Satyam Computer Service Limited.

January 6th, 2009 HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI - The Andhra Pradesh government Wednesday ordered a preliminary inquiry by the crime branch of the police into a financial fraud by IT major Satyam Computers. Chief Minister Y.S.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A parliamentarian had raised the issue of irregularities in Satyam Computer Services way back in 2001 but then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had ignored the matter, the Congress party said Tuesday.

May 13th, 2009 Former Monster COO convicted of stock option fraudNEW YORK — The former president and chief operating officer of Monster Worldwide has been convicted in New York of wrongfully backdating millions of dollars' worth of employee stock option grants. A jury on Tuesday found James Treacy of Glen Rock, N.J., guilty of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, filing false reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, making false statements to auditors and falsifying books and records.

May 19th, 2009 Google's landed into quagmire after facing a class action suite over infringement of trademarks. The search engine major encourages the advertisers to purchase other companies' trademarks as targeted search term.

December 18th, 2004 A wonderful christmas/hanukkah present I must say :) http://tech.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Spam-Lawsuit.html Looks like if you are in Iowa you can claim damages of 10 $ per spam! Wondering if I should shift my residence to IOWA. Looking at the amount of spam I get I could be a millionaire in no time :)