Management overhaul hurts Apple stock
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 19:40 PM EDT
Management overhaul hurts Apple stock SOCIAL GAMINGZynga faces more betting challengersBetable Ltd., the online-gambling startup backed by venture capital, reached agreements with three social-gaming companies that will use its platform to expand into real-money betting in competition with Zynga Inc. Party Digital Entertainment PLC. Betable says it can streamline the licensing and offer developers a technology framework they can plug in to and quickly get started. "Google and Rosetta Stone have agreed to dismiss the three-year-old trademark infringement lawsuit between them and to meaningfully collaborate to combat online ads for counterfeit goods and prevent the misuse and abuse of trademarks on the Internet," the companies said in a joint e-mailed statement. PRIVACYEU antitrust talks on Google near endGoogle Inc.'s power to wield customer data should be taken into account by European Union regulators as settlement talks on an antitrust probe reach the final stages, a consumer rights group said. The dominance of Google is "largely fueled by its access to users' personal data," Monique Goyens, director general of the European consumers' association BEUC, said in a letter to Joaquin Almunia, the EU's antitrust chief.