Google Self-Driving Cars Hit California Roads

July 06, 2015 07:39 pm by Brent Lightfoot

Androids may dream of electric sheep, but we humans aren’t asleep. Google really has put self-driving cars onto public roads, and has been doing so for the past six years. Google...

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Ford to Test New Car-Sharing Service

July 02, 2015 06:50 pm by Jackson McNeill

Ford Motor Co. is testing a new car-sharing program that will allow customers to rent out Ford cars on a temporary basis using a peer-to-peer car-sharing app. The program is...

Donald Trump Files $500M Lawsuit Against Univision Over Miss USA Pageant

July 01, 2015 03:25 pm by Jackson McNeill

Business magnate and TV-personality Donald Trump filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision on Tuesday after the Spanish-speaking network decided to terminate its contract with Trump’s Miss Universe Organization and...

The Economic Impact of Universal Gay Marriage

June 29, 2015 03:38 pm by Jon McNew

On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, 5-4, that every state must let gay people get married. Politics aside, how will this affect the American economy? The...

Food Delivery Startup Postmates Valued at $400 Million

June 28, 2015 01:22 pm by LawInc Staff

Postmates, an on-demand logistics company that mostly delivers food and other goods locally has raised $80 million from Tiger Global Management and other investors, increasing the company’s valuation to $400...

Airbnb Valued at $24 Billion

June 25, 2015 02:44 pm by Maria Kozak

Airbnb, the short term home rental site, is reportedly close to closing an almost $1 billion funding round, according to a Wall Street Insider who spoke with Rolfe Winkler and...

Mattress Startup, Casper, Valued at $550 Million

June 23, 2015 06:18 pm by Maria Kozak

Casper Sleep Inc., a New York Startup that delivers its memory foam and latex mattresses in a box, recently raised $55 million in a round of Series B venture funding....

Digital Estate Planning and the Online Afterlife

June 15, 2015 03:58 pm by Brent Lightfoot

Ghosts really do exist, at least online. Given the close resemblance between traditional Western narratives of the afterlife and the verbiage of cloud computing, it’s not surprising that digital ghosts...

The Washington Pandas: Trademark Squatting in the D.C. Area

June 03, 2015 11:38 am by Jonathan Schmig

These days, the name of Washington D.C.’s professional football team is generally viewed as offensive and in need of change. It is quite difficult to find someone (who is not...

One More Battle in the Apple-Samsung War

May 21, 2015 04:44 pm by Jonathan Schmig

This past Monday, another brick was laid in the seemingly neverending path of the Apple v. Samsung litigation. In short, although the lower court awarded Apple a sum of $930M...

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