Neowin News Feed for: Pays

Kotaku Pays Blogger for Pictures, Thanks to Neowin & Digg

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:34:12 +0000

After Neowin posted a story about Kotaku taking pictures from Prince17's blog, cropping them, and posting them as part of their gaming stories, and the story made it to Digg's front page, the gaming news... Read more...

Sprint Pays $57 Million in Age Discrimination Suit

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:21:25 +0000

Elderly former Sprint employees now have a check to look forward to in the mail as U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum approved a $57 million settlement yesterday resolving a series of lawsuits claiming Sprint Nextel... Read more...

'Nvidia only' strategy pays off for XFX

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:39:21 +0000

When Nvidia launched its GeForce 8800, the whole camp of Nvidia camp graphics card makers was elated, and among them was Pine Technology, which markets graphics cards under the XFX brand name. Based in Hong... Read more...

Florida Man Gets 6 Years & Pays 4.1M Restitution for Piracy

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:16:23 +0000

Danny Ferrer, of Lakeland, Florida was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison and ordered to pay over 4.1 million dollars in restitution to software authors Adobe Systems Inc., Autodesk, and Macromedia Inc. for... Read more...

Western Digital pays up in class action lawsuit

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:41:14 +0000

Following the July 17, 2006, Settlement of the class action lawsuit accusing Western Digital of misrepresenting the capacity of its hard drives, Western Digital has Sent out emails giving free backup and recovery software to... Read more...

Amazon Pays $40m to Settle Patent Case

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:29:04 +0000

Amazon has settled its 12-month legal case with Soverain Software with a payment of $40m, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Amazon's papers reveal that it made "a one-time payment... Read more...

Paying for Flaws Pays Off for iDefense

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:08:58 +0000

Internet security specialist iDefense Inc. has released a reverse-engineering tool to the open-source community as part of its controversial strategy of buying the rights to information on security flaws found by underground researchers. The decision... Read more...

Real's campaign pays off

Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:20:19 +0000

Real Network's recent media blitz has paid off well. Real have announced that they've sold 1 million songs (49 cents / song) in the first week of operation. This has been mostly through their 'Freedom... Read more...

EA pays $48 million for Criterion

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 22:12:21 +0000

With R&D costs climbing, the money spent to purchase the Renderware shop seems a bargain. According to a 10-Q form filed with the SEC, Electronic Arts spent somewhere in the range of... Read more...

Microsoft (sort of) pays the EU fine

Mon, 05 Jul 2004 15:05:35 +0000

Microsoft has paid the US$600 million fine handed down by the European Commission in its antitrust ruling against the company. Representatives of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant confirmed last Friday that Microsoft deposited the payment... Read more...

Intel pays $225 million to end Intergraph case

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:57:03 +0000

Intel Corp. will pay Intergraph Corp. $225 million to settle a long-running patent dispute, the companies said Tuesday. Separately, Integraph said it has dismissed charges against PC maker Dell Inc. stemming from a related patent... Read more...

Enterprise route pays off for Red Hat

Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:53:33 +0000

Free or cheap software doesn't necessarily lead to broad acceptance, especially when it comes to enterprise users -- at least, not in Linux supplier Red Hat Inc's experience. Enterprise customers want assurances... Read more...

Microsoft pays $10 million to settle suit

Wed, 01 Oct 2003 03:25:43 +0000

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would pay $10.5 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by customers who claimed the software maker used its monopoly power to overcharge them for direct purchases of software.... Read more...

McDonald's pays to play with Sims

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:59:58 +0000

Welcome to McDonald's. Would you like virtual fries with that digital Big Mac? No. 1 video game publisher Electronic Arts said on Monday that it has struck multimillion-dollar product placement deals with fast-food giant... Read more...

XBox price cut pays off for Microsoft

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:30:55 +0000

Slashing the price of XBOX helped Microsoft more than double sales of the console in two months according to new market data. NPD says Xbox sales jumped 131 per cent after the... Read more...