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Federal Trade Commission Moves Closer to Studying ‘Patent Trolls’
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Friday took another step toward a comprehensive study of "patent trolls" - companies in the business of buying and asserting patents - to see if they are hurting ...
Travelers Launching Low Cost, Segmented Product in New Personal Auto Strategy
The Travelers Companies Inc. is adopting a new strategy to become more price-competitive in personal auto insurance. Travelers' CEO Jay Fishman explained his company's personal auto strategy at the ...Hacker Group in China Linked to Cyber Attacks Against U.S. Firms: Symantec
Computer security experts have discovered a group of highly sophisticated computer hackers operating for hire, a U.S computer security firm said, and it linked the group to some of the best-known ...
Trigger Finger: Apple Fires Biometrics into the Mainstream
By adding a fingerprint scanner to its newest mobile phone, Apple Inc. is offering a tantalizing glimpse of a future where your favorite gadget might become a biometric pass to the workplace, mobile ...
Allstate Says Drivewise Hits One Billion Miles Driven
Allstate reports that its Drivewise customers will register more than one billion miles driven this month. In a statement Friday, Allstate also said that Drivewise is launching in Kentucky and ...
Google Loses Appeal in Street View Privacy Case
A federal appeals court rejected Google Inc.'s bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of violating federal wiretap law when its accidentally collected emails and other personal data while building its ...
Allstate CEO Dismisses GEICO Threat in Race for Auto Insurance Market Share
Allstate Corp. Chief Executive Officer Tom Wilson, whose company lost car-insurance market share in the last three years, said competitor GEICO could struggle to expand sales as it seeks to sell more ...
Future of AIR Worldwide’s Touchstone to Include Non-Cat Risk Analysis
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide on Monday announced that its next-generation software platform, Touchstone, will include the ability to account for both catastrophe and non-catastrophe risks ...