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Megaupload’s right to counsel from Quinn Emanuel

(Reuters) – At Friday’s hearing in the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal copyright case against Megaupload, Paul Brinkman and William Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan appeared on behalf of the shuttered file-sharing site, Megaupload, according to my Reuters colleague Jeremy Pelofsky, who attended the Alexandria, Va., federal court session. If you haven’t been closely following the docket in this case, that will come as a surprise

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Apple rejects e-book pricing collusion charge

(Reuters) – Apple Inc has rejected the U.S. Justice Department’s allegations that it colluded with publishers over electronic book pricing, calling the charges “simply not true.” The U.S. government had sued Apple and five publishers, saying they conspired to fix the prices of electronic books

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Internet smartwatch orders net $2 million for start-up

TORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian entrepreneur’s smartwatch, which works alongside a user’s smartphone, has won $2 million worth of orders through an Internet-based funding venture that offers cash-starved companies a way to both test their ideas and raise funds. Eric Migicovsky initially sought $10,000 over a five-week period through Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com), a website set up to encourage small-scale funding for innovative projects.

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HP to merge printer, PC businesses

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 – Hewlett Packard Co will merge its printer and PC businesses, combining two of its largest divisions as Chief Executive Meg Whitman tries to jump-start growth at the technology company. The new unit, which with $65.35 billion in annual sales will account for about half percent of the company’s revenue, will be headed by PC chief Todd Bradley, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Reuters had reported on the plans on Tuesday

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Kony director’s "unfortunate incident" caused by psychosis: wife

(Reuters) – The director of a video calling for the arrest of fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony was suffering from “brief reactive psychosis” when he was hospitalized last week in California following reports he was acting bizarrely, his wife said on Wednesday. Jason Russell, who directed the 30-minute “Kony 2012″ Internet film that went viral earlier this month, was detained by police in San Diego last week after witnesses reported a man in “various stages of undress” who was “acting bizarrely, running into traffic” in public, police said

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Twitter index: Justin Bieber teases the release of new single "Boyfriend"

Microbloggers are getting excited about the release of Justin Bieber’s soon to be released single “Boyfriend.”

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China’s Sina sees 60 pct of Weibo users verified by deadline

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s Sina Corp estimates 60 percent of the users of its popular microblogging Weibo platform would have registered their real identities by a March 16 deadline in compliance with government regulations, a company spokesman said on Monday. Weibo, which operates like Twitter and allows users to post short messages and gather followers, has more than 250 million users, who often use it to vent about topics China’s government deems sensitive such as corruption and the status of Taiwan. …

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Bank of America considers checking account fee revamp: report (Reuters)

Reuters – Bank of America Corp is planning to introduce a monthly fee for its customers holding checking accounts unless they agree to bank online, buy more products or maintain certain balances, the Wall Street Journal said.

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Kim Dotcom says he’ll beat ‘political’ piracy case (AP)

AP – In his first interviews since his January arrest in New Zealand, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom says he will prevail in what he calls a “political” Internet piracy case against him.

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Auction of Oscar statuettes brings in $3 million (Reuters)

Reuters – Fifteen Oscar statuettes have sold for a total of $3 million at an online auction, the most money made from a single collection of Oscars in a sale by bid, organizers said on Wednesday.

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