BUSINESS

Google and Oracle lock horns in a legal dispute over Android infringements with Java technology. Google has amassed potential firepower with thousands of patent acquisitions from Motorola and IBM. The patent wars should only get interesting as Microsoft, Apple, Samsung and HTC join the fray.

Google gets 217 IBM patents

The Advertising Standards Authority has reportedly banned TalkTalk's ad campaign after finding the campaign to be misleading and fraudulent.

Apple has reportedly filed a patent on Facial Recognition software for mobile platform with the intention of adding this feature on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Macbook devices.

Apple has failed to realize its mistake in a bid to dominate the smartphone and tablet industry with patent lawsuits against its rivals. There is no real innovation happening in the native camp, while its rivals are striving hard to move ahead with new product designs and technological advancements.

Reports suggest Google Inc. is in hot water over an Android patents war, with fellow corporate giants like Oracle, Microsoft and Apple.

Revenues & Customs taken to court over controversial settlement which saved investment bank £10m.

The legal arm of the tax pressure group, UK Uncut, has taken HM Revenue & Customs to court after it failed to provide substantial reasons for failing to collect billions of pounds worth of tax revenue.

A Walmart store packed with Christmas shoppers stayed open despite a woman being stabbed to death inside.

Speculation is rife that the yakuza, known as the Japanese mafia, may have had a hand in the Olympus-Gyrus deal scandal.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) will investigate the takeover deal between Olympus and Gyrus that saw $1.4billion paid in obscure acquisitions and consultancy fees.

Europe's key crisis figures have all Goldman Sachs in their pedigree. Is it just a coincidence or is the financial world is trying to take over Europe?

In an unexpected, dramatic move, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has appointed economist Mario Monti as senator-for-life, bringing him into parliament and positioning him as a possible prime minister.

Online activist movement Anonymous has declared war against corruption in the Mexico government, calling on all the global hacker community to attack government agencies in the country.

A member of the online activist movement Anonymous who was kidnapped last month in Mexico by a ruthless drug cartel has been released, a spokesman for the organisation said.

HMRC have until Wednesday to respond to allegations as to why they let Goldman Sachs off a £10 million tax bill.

Olympus Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa has resigned asthe financial advisor scandal grows.

The FBI is probing a huge advisory fee paid by Olympus corp. following the take-over of medical equipment maker, Gyrus.

Raj Rajaratnam, a self-made hedge fund tycoon convicted in the biggest Wall Street trading scandal in a generation, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Thursday.

British and US special forces have seized 11 Somali Pirates in a stormed raid on a hijacked Italian cargo ship off the coast of the Horn of Africa

The law firm that Rupert Murdoch claims failed to raise awareness over evidence of police bribes at News International will now be given the chance to give their version of events to police and MP's, after previously being prevented from doing so by client-lawyer confidentiality.

Sport Media Group, the owner of the Daily Sport tabloid, has gone into administration.

Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) will set up a joint venture with a local company to develop rare earths in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi, the China Securities Journal reported on Thursday.