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News bites: Apple settles lawsuit over kids' app purchases

By Brendan Sasso - 02/26/13 10:15 AM ET

Apple has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by parents who said their children were able to buy in-game items without their permission, GigaOm reports.

Yahoo has ordered employees to work from the office instead of from home, The New York Times explains. 

Apple, Google and app developers are bracing for tougher scrutiny from regulators over app privacy, Bloomberg writes.

Google is worried that Samsung has become so big that it could renegotiate their arrangement to eat into Google's mobile ad business, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers plans to make hundreds of new Internet suffixes available by the end of the year, the Associated Press reports.


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http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/284871-news-bites-apple-settles-lawsuit-over-kids-app-purchases
Phillip J. Bond’s ‘Tech Execs’ appears here on The Hill's Hillicon Valley Blog occasionally.

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