The US Supreme Court declined to review its antitrust case, which means Tyson will not have to pay a $1.28 billion judgment against the company that was overturned in an appeals court.

When 9-year-old Shea O’Gorman and her third-grade class learned about writing business and formal letters, she thought who better to write a hand-written letter to than the CEO of the company that makes her beloved iPod nano, suggesting her thoughts on how the iPod could be further improved. Mr. Jobs may have failed to reply [...]

Since 1934 it has been illegal for corporate insiders to engage in stock trading based on being privy to special information that could help or hurt a stock. In 2002, Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley, which included added reporting requirements and tougher standards for insider trading. However, as of now it remains legal for a member of [...]

On April 4th, US District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, found that Mattel Inc. and its subsidiary Fisher-Price did not infringe a patent held by LeapFrog Enterprises Inc.

William H. Swanson has become something of a management guru thanks to “Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management.” When USA Today published the list of rules on its Web site on April 14, Carl Durrenberger, a chemical engineer and blogger in San Diego, thought some of them sounded familiar. Upon further comparison 17 of Mr. Swanson’s [...]

As of this month, the city of Anaheim, California has spent over $3.5 million thus far in its failed legal bid to get the local MLB baseball team to change its name back to Anaheim Angels. After the team changed its name to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last year, the city filed suit in [...]

Those companies looking to protect their IP rights in Russia might be interested to learn about Vladimir Putin’s 1997 MBA Thesis titled “The Strategic Planning of Regional Resources Under the Formation of Market Relations.” According to the Washington DC-based Brookings Institute, the majority of Putin’s thesis (which was submitted to earn his graduate degree from [...]

Nope we are not talking about employees at Verizon protesting Ivan Seidenberg’s pay package during the annual meeting (although that is going on too). Rather, when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got an anonymous text message suggesting he didn’t wash enough, he fired the president of the phone company on the spot. He also had four [...]

Charges against Vince McMahon, the head of the World Wrestling Federation, for an alleged sexual harassment incident have been dropped. A 22-year-old woman accused McMahon of attempting to grope her at a tanning salon in Boca Raton. He also allegedly showed her nude self portraits from his mobile phone.

In 2004, management at the Tokyo-headquartered NEC started receiving data that pirated products with the company’s brand were on sale in retail outlets in Beijing and Hong Kong. After two years of investigative research, enforcement agencies found that this was a much more complex case: pirates were faking the entire company. Counterfeiters had set up [...]