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To harry other nations without attacking them, monarchs like England’s Elizabeth I commissioned ship captains to plunder merchant vessels, creating a type of pirate known as a privateer.
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AT&T Inc. , the second-largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, said software supplied by Alcatel-Lucent SA was responsible for slower loading speeds in certain areas of the U.S. on some mobile devices, including the iPhone 4.
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Barnes & Noble Inc. , which makes the Nook electronic reader and sells books from its website, sued Xerox Corp. and Alcatel-Lucent SA over demands the bookseller pay royalties for patents.
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Alcatel-Lucent, Qualcomm Inc. and Ericsson AB must defend against claims by Liberty Media Corp.’s TruePosition unit that the companies tried to deny it access to the next generation of phone-locator technology, a court ruled.
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Samuel Wyly and Charles Wyly, the Texan brothers and entrepreneurs who funded ads helping George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns, were sued by U.S. regulators who accused them of misleading investors while selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stock.
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Alcatel-Lucent SA agreed to pay $137 million to resolve U.S. criminal and civil probes and admitted it bribed government officials in “many countries,” including Taiwan, Malaysia and Costa Rica.
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Danielle Chiesi, the former New Castle Funds LLC analyst who was heard on a federal wiretap passing secret tips to Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
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Telefonos de Mexico SAB , the nation’s largest phone company, is building a network that will extend fiber-optic cables to 1 million homes this year, boosting the speed of its Internet service by as much as 10 times, a person with direct knowledge of the plan said.
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Liberty Media Corp.’s TruePosition unit sued Alcatel-Lucent, LM Ericsson and Qualcomm Inc., contending they are trying to shut it out of access to the next generation of phone-locator technology.
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Telekom Malaysia Bhd. and Axiata Group Bhd. , two state-controlled telecommunications providers, said they will investigate alleged improper payments admitted to by Alcatel-Lucent SA .
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