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‘Russia’s Facebook’ $1.5bn deal ends long-running litigation
September 26th, 2014
Four firms have played lead roles in a $1.47bn (£900m) transaction between two Russian online giants which brought to an end years of complex litigation. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, Hogan Lovells ...
Facebook market cap tops $200bn
September 9th, 2014
Facebook’s market capitalisation topped $200bn for the first time on Monday, beating rival Google in the time it took since going public to reach the symbolic figure. As well as outstripping the valuation of much older technology companies including ...
Legal fees for Alibaba IPO top $15.8m, beating Facebook
September 8th, 2014
Law firms advising on the $21bn mega IPO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba are to split $15.8m in legal fees, as the Hangzhou-based company prepares to list on the New York Stock Exchange later this month. Legal Week first ...
MFSA warns of suspicious Facebook posts
September 5th, 2014
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has recently become aware of a number of posts on Facebook that contain offers of loans to the public in Malta of between €1,000 and €500,000 at an annual interest rate of 3%. ...
25,000 join Europe class action lawsuit against Facebook
August 7th, 2014
An Austrian waging a battle against Facebook’s privacy policies said that 25,000 users of the social networking giant have signed on to his class action lawsuit. The suit, filed by lawyer Max Schrems, claims a symbolic US $ 660 ...
Facebook beats Wall Street targets, stock hits record high
July 24th, 2014
Facebook Inc’s fast-growing mobile advertising business helped drive a 61 percent increase in revenue during the second quarter, beating Wall Street’s financial targets and sending shares to a record-high in after-hours trading on Wednesday. The world’s No.1 Internet social ...
Shares of tiny Facebook rival wannabe halted
July 11th, 2014
A little known company that’s turned into a strange sensation on Wall Street saw its shares get halted Friday. Cynk Technology, a company that claims to be building “social network business” that trades on the lightly supervised Pink Sheet ...
Irishman fined €2,000 for Facebook ‘frape’
July 2nd, 2014
An Irish court has brought the first prosecution for criminal damage to a social media account, fining a man €2,000 for falsely posting an offensive status update on his ex-girlfriend’s Facebook account. Referred to by the slang term to ...
UK probe for Facebook for breaking data protection laws
July 2nd, 2014
A UK regulator is investigating whether Facebook broke data protection laws when it conducted a psychological study on users without their consent. The test saw Facebook “manipulate” the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users to control which emotional expressions ...
European court to rule on allegations Facebook passes personal data to NSA
June 18th, 2014
A European court has been asked to rule on a landmark case which seeks to force watchdogs to audit the personal data Facebook allegedly releases to US spy chiefs. The high court in Dublin has referred to Strasbourg a ...
