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• July 20, 2018

  IT Firm Investor To Pay $450K In SEC Judgment Over Fraud

  An investor in a bankrupt Illinois information technology company agreed on Thursday to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $450,000 after he allegedly aided former top company executives in a fraud scheme to embezzle $4.1 million.

• July 20, 2018

  Fed. Circ. Dissent Slams Alice In Apple, Google Patent Win

  In a partial dissent from a decision handing Google, Apple, AOL and Yahoo a win in a patent infringement suit, a Federal Circuit judge on Friday slammed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice decision, expressing frustration with its definitions of “abstract ideas” and “inventive concepts.”

• July 20, 2018

  Facebook Suspends Analytics Firm To Study Possible Misuse

  Facebook Inc. has suspended social media analytics firm Crimson Hexagon from using its platform, it announced Friday, saying it would look into whether the company’s work under contracts with federal agencies and a contract with a firm allegedly tied to the Russian government violate its user data policies.

• July 20, 2018

  State Street Snaps Up Software Co. For $2.6B In Cash

  Boston-based State Street Corp. on Friday said it agreed to buy privately held Charles River Development for $2.6 billion in cash, a deal the bank said will help it provide asset managers and owners with a “global front-to-back platform.”

• July 20, 2018

  Lawmakers Back Down On ZTE Sanctions In Defense Bill

  The National Defense Authorization Act won’t include a U.S. Senate-backed provision that would have barred ZTE Corp. from buying American components, according to a series of public statements issued Friday from a bipartisan group of lawmakers incensed about the turnaround.

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