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Facebook admitted to tracking users who weren't even on the Web site last September, and a Baltimore based law firm has now filed a class action lawsuit in a Northern California District court. It's not the first lawsuit filed against Facebook over privacy concerns, but it's the first nationwide class action suit that potentially involves anyone who was a member before Facebook changed their privacy policy. The thrust of the lawsuit filed by Murphy PA, Peter G. Angelos and Gerard Gibbs ...

Q&A with Cristina Alger, author of “The Darlings.”

A Chinese technology firm sought to halt the sale of Apple Inc's iPads across the affluent city of Shanghai, arguing at a local court hearing on Wednesday that the U.S. firm had infringed on its trademark.

The New York Knicks' new star point guard Jeremy Lin recently applied to trademark Linsanity several days after two California men each filed separate ones, attempting to cash in on the fervor surrounding Lin and his vernacularly adaptable name.

Kim and Khloe Kardashian may be facing a class action lawsuit over their endorsed diet product QuickTrim. The lawsuit is being filed by law firm, Bursor & Fisher, against Windmill and the claims made by the Kardashian's. An e-mail was sent to users of the diet product by the law firm. The e-mail stated The active ingredient in QuickTrim weight loss products is a large dose of caffeine...The FDA has determined that caffeine is not safe or effective for weight loss.

The Darlings tells a fictional tale about the downfall of a hedge fund and the wealthy family that owns it during Wall Street's 2008 meltdown, but many aspects of the novel are drawn straight from author Cristina Alger's reality.

TransUnion Corp., the third largest provider of credit information to banks and consumers, said Advent International Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s private equity arm agreed to buy the company from Chicago's billionaire Pritzker family and local private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners LLC for over $3 billion.

As rumors of Adele's supposed five year break finally begin to subside, another shocking story has made it's way into the news. The French magazine Public recently ran an issue with the headline, Adele: La Sex Tape! The issue included stills from a home-made adult video that supposedly features Adele and her former boyfriend. However, Adele's spokesperson immediately shot down the claims, saying that the allegations of a sex tape featuring Adele were 100 percent false an...

Newt Gingrich says any TV station that airs an ad from rival Republican Mitt Romney's super PAC claiming the ex-House speaker backed China's controversial one child policy will be sued, according to Politico.

Linsanity has taken the sports world by storm, and at least one business-minded individual is trying to patent the term and profit off of the New York Knicks player's success.

A 2009 memo published by progressive think tank and media watchdog Media Matters for America recently surfaced on the Internet, detailing its strategy to discredit conservative media outlet Fox News.

An audit released this week called the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey a challenged and dysfunctional organization, citing the ballooning costs at New York's World Trade Center. But, for all the turmoil at the site, the Port Authority has taken steps to return it to both the private and public city.

Greg Kelly, the Good Day New York anchor accused of rape, returned on air on Friday morning, giving a brief statement before anchoring the rest of the show.

President Jacob Zuma squashed more than two years of talk on Friday about the nationalisation of South Africa's massive mining sector, saying state control or ownership of the mines in the world's biggest platinum producer could not work.

The United States has threatened action that could disrupt a French-led satellite maker's supply chain, spurred by suspicion that it illegally used U.S. know-how or parts in spacecraft launched by Chinese rockets.

Lawyers for a U.S. Marine court-martialed for his role in killing Iraqi civilians in Haditha slammed the international hacking collective Anonymous as cowards on Monday after they knocked out the firm's website and published internal e-mails on the web.

State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community's high school is safe.

The Bureau of Land Management Friday recommended that a substantially smaller than originally proposed tract of public land be made available for oil shale and tar sand oil development and research, under a new draft environmental impact statement.

Shares of Facebook were auctioned Thursday on the private site SharesPost that would value the entire company at $94 billion.

For many Americans, 2011 ended on a somewhat pessimistic note. Income barely rose and consumers tapped their savings during the crucial Christmas season. Despite things looking ahead for 2012, chances of an economic recession have urged many people to lookout for a job with better perks.

The federal judge overseeing MF Global Holdings Ltd's bankruptcy appointed one law firm to represent brokerage employees who claimed to be fired unfairly, ending a vitriolic battle for that role.