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Pact, a fitness app that promised to pay users a sum of money for meeting certain fitness goals has been brought to task by the FTC and owes around $1 million to users for not living up to its word.

Muhammad Jarir Kanji · Sep 21, 2017 with 0 comments

Yahoo China, MSN China and other blog providers in China have signed a code of conduct for their blogging operations that committed them to protecting the interests of the Chinese state. The pact ask the...

· Aug 26, 2007 · Hot! with 20 comments

Canadian and German scientists have agreed on a deal (estimated at ~$8.4 million) to work together over the next three years to develop clean energy technologies. The National Research Council of Canada and the...

· Jun 12, 2007 with 4 comments

Intel's online marketing pact with Google will expand opportunities for system builders and resellers, channel partners say. The deal with the search giant, which was formally announced Wednesday at Intel's European Solutions Summit in Paris,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Apr 26, 2007 with 1 comment

In February 2006, Sony, Toshiba and NEC Electronics agreed they would co-develop technologies to make system chips with circuitry width of 45 nanometres, sharing hefty costs and pooling technological expertise. But now, Sony has announced...

· Apr 7, 2007 · Hot! with 10 comments

Intel has re-engineered its Intel Inside program and, as part of that effort, has executed a deal with Google to modernize its channel marketing. According to company documents viewed by CRN, the Intel Inside 2007...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Mar 14, 2007 with -1 comments

Dell, the last of the big four server makers to accept Advanced Micro Devices' chips into its product portfolio, is expected to announce Thursday that it's expanding its partnership with the chipmaker to include with...

· Aug 17, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

HP and Gateway have agreed to settle their legal differences with a $47m payment, from Gateway to HP. The two firms fell out in 2004 over patent infringement allegations made by both companies against each...

· Mar 2, 2006 with -1 comments

Microsoft Corp. has averted a looming conflict with U.S. officials by agreeing to disclose more information about its Windows server operating system, according to documents filed in federal court on Wednesday Lawyers at the U.S....

· Feb 9, 2006 with -1 comments

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer and Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy will host an event in mid-May to detail progress the companies have made since the signing of a 10-year...

· Apr 22, 2005 with -1 comments

Agreement will see the Twin Snakes developer working on an unnamed game for unidentified consoles to be released at an undetermined date. In a release issued this morning, Sega announced an agreement...

· Mar 24, 2005 with -1 comments

An American man has been arrested after allegedly trying to arrange a mass online suicide pact for Valentine's Day on Monday. Gerald Krien, 26, was caught after one woman alerted authorities after hearing one of...

· Feb 12, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

Microsoft continues its march into the realm of home entertainment today with a new photo-printing partnership with Fuji Photo Film. The film-processing giant has landed a prominent link on Microsoft's popular Windows XP operating system,...

· Dec 14, 2004 with -1 comments

Earlier today, Mforma and Marvel Enterprises announced the mobile entertainment industry's largest content licensing deal to date. The new strategic partnership between Mforma, a fast-growing mobile content creator based in Seattle, and Marvel, a multimedia...

· Dec 13, 2004 with -1 comments

Microsoft signed a security-related agreement Monday with the federal government of Germany, where the software giant has seen numerous challenges involving open-source products. The agreement, signed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and...

· May 4, 2004 with -1 comments

The broad legal settlement reached Friday between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems could be a big boost for the companies and their customers, but any impact it may have on the European Commission's efforts to rein...

· Apr 3, 2004 with -1 comments

Dell reported this week that it has won a contract to supply PCs to the Environmental Protection Agency over the next three years, as well as help the regulatory body recycle its aging hardware. ...

· Mar 25, 2004 with -1 comments

A federal judge on Friday said she is satisfied with Microsoft Corp.'s efforts to comply with its landmark antitrust settlement after the company announced new steps, including free access to some of its Windows operating...

· Jan 23, 2004 with -1 comments

S3 Graphics today announced that Club-3D, a Netherlands-based graphics card vendor, will sell graphics cards powered by its DeltaChrome graphics processor. The DeltaChrome based Club-3D graphics card will be available online and in leading electronic...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 18, 2003 with -1 comments

Research In Motion Ltd. said on Tuesday it had struck a deal with rival Palm Inc. to make its BlackBerry e-mail service available on handhelds and smartphones that use Palm's operating system. RIM...

· May 6, 2003 with -1 comments

The music and software industries have reached a "landmark consensus" in a divisive debate over copy protection, trade groups representing both sides said in a statement. Details of a policy road map, endorsed by the...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 14, 2003 with -1 comments

Britain's dominant fixed-line telecoms operator BT Group Plc. said Wednesday it had signed a formal strategic alliance with U.S. software giant Microsoft to develop more high-speed Internet services. The alliance puts BT...

· Nov 6, 2002 with -1 comments

IBM Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., the world's second- and third-largest data storage systems providers, unveiled an alliance on Wednesday aimed at dislodging arch-rival EMC Corp from the top spot in the lucrative business. ...

· Apr 17, 2002 with -1 comments

In a major endorsement of security across its wares, IBM is working with VeriSign on a joint product development and sales deal that would marry VeriSign's authentication and payment services technology to Big Blue's hardware...

· Jan 19, 2002 with -1 comments