At LSI’s Merchant Strategies for Mobile Payments Conference in Seattle on May 14, DWT’s Erica Wilson presented on the topic of “What Merchants Need to Know About How the Key Players in the Mobile Payments Services Ecosystem Relate to Each Other.” Full Story
The world is changing for venture funds and similar funds in Washington State, and not necessarily for the better. It used to be the case that managers of venture or other private funds did not need to file anything with the SEC or state securities regulators (other than Forms D incident to their fundraisings). Full Story
In a Public Notice released yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission asked for comments on several possible plans for reorganizing the spectrum currently used by television broadcasters. Initial comments are due June 14, with reply comments due June 28. Full Story
Late in April 2013—following a many-month delay while approval from Chinese and Eastern European antitrust regulators was pending—two Japanese companies, Sony Corp. and Olympus Corp., announced that their medical devices merger had at last received final authorization. Full Story
Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company, recently made headlines by committing to purchase an 18% stake in Weibo, China’s largest microblogging platform, for $586 million. The deal reportedly gives Alibaba an option to increase its stake to 30%. Full Story
There is an epidemic of violent crime when stealing cells and tablets since the manufacturers apparently do little to protect make these devices inoperable if stolen. Full Story
In the healthcare industry we often associate information privacy and security enforcement with HIPAA and state privacy laws. Full Story
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) is the organization that oversees domain names worldwide. Full Story
In Part 1 of this blog series on digital advertising, we canvassed the disclosure rules in light of the recent the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s recent publication, “.com Disclosures, How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising”. Full Story
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