District attorneys in San Francisco and Los Angeles issued their charges in an amended complaint.

Data Protection Authorities should immediately suspend changes to Google's terms of service, the complaints said.

SpongeBob Diner Dash collects personal information from children in violation of U.S. law, the complaint says.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should "tread carefully" before bringing an antitrust complaint against Google, a veteran U.S. lawmaker said as news reports suggested the agency is ready to move forward.

Google has dropped a major part of its wide-ranging patent-infringement battle against Apple, withdrawing a complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Europe's top consumer watchdog received complaints from 11 different countries about Apple's advertising of product warranties.

In another dispute with Samsung before the court, the jury awarded Apple about US$1 billion in damages last month.

Competition Commission of India, the country's antitrust agency, is investigating Google for alleged anti-competitive practices following a complaint by a consumer watchdog group, a federal minister told Parliament on Monday, according to the country's Press Information Bureau.

The fine is the largest ever related to an FTC complaint.

Bob Mansfield hints the return to EPEAT was in answer to customer complaints.

The three governments want the WTO to appoint a dispute settlement panel to examine China's export policies.

Kodak had asserted the patent in a complaint against Apple and RIM.

Microsoft alleges that Motorola is abusing its position with regard to essential patents.

HTC filed a new suit against Apple and amended two other complaints.

A New York man who claims he's entitled to a sizable stake in Facebook has amended his initial complaint, adjusting his ownership claim and providing additional documents, including e-mails he allegedly exchanged with Mark Zuckerberg.

In a scathing blog post, one of Microsoft's top lawyers cited previously withheld U.S. Department of Justice court documents that allege Google has been falsely claiming that its Google Apps for Government service has an important security certification.

Microsoft filed an antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission on Thursday, accusing Google of taking technical measures to squeeze Microsoft and other competitors out of the advertising and search markets.

Apple received good and bad news from the U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday.

French company 1plusV has accused Google of stopping smaller competitors from generating advertising revenue by abusing its dominant position in the search market. The company said it made the allegations in a complaint filed with European Union antitrust authorities on Tuesday.

When involved in a spat over allegations of unauthorized copying or misappropriation of content and ideas, Google -- fairly or not -- usually plays the villain, accused of parasitically overstepping boundaries to profit from someone else's work.