15 minutes of fame: keeping “in-app” purchases in-check

28 March 2014

The days of unauthorized in-app purchases are well and truly numbered, following a spate of private and regulatory enforcement action in the United States, and the issue being firmly on the agenda of regulators in the UK, EU and Australia.

Our friends at our sister blog In Competition have written a post about this issue. For more, see here.

IP Whiteboard editor published in Internet Law Bulletin: Recent legal developments involving Twitter

17 March 2014

By Samantha McHugh

If you still think that Tweeting is something only birds do, it’s time to fly the coop. Launched in 2006, Twitter is an online social networking site that enables its 645 million registered users worldwide to send and receive 140 character “Tweets”. More than 5700 Tweets are sent ever second and up to 75% of mainstream journalists now find stories through Twitter.

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