Communications & Media Law, Science, Computers & Technology, Finance & Banking

Investment Portals Addressed in SEC Staff Guidance Under JOBS Act; No-Action Letters Also Issued

by Elliott Curzon, Thor Imsdahl, Edward Pittman | Dechert LLP on 5/15/2013

Technology has spawned the formation of new internet-based marketplaces for illiquid and restricted securities. In most instances, these markets are operated by entities registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more

CFTC To Address Problems Of Dealing With Evolving Technology Sphere

by Felix Shipkevich | Shipkevich PLLC on 5/1/2013

Despite the fact that The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has spent years working on plans to adapt to the technological revolution that is changing the investing sphere, the disconnect between the agency and...more

CPA issues Amendments to Electronic Data and Document Rules and Standards

by Lisa K. Abe-Oldenburg | Bennett Jones LLP on 4/24/2013

The Canadian Payments Association has issued amendments to Automated Clearing and Settlement System (ACSS) Rules and Standards, which came into effect on April 22, 2013....more

Mobile Payments Infographic

by James G. Gatto, Deborah Thoren-Peden | Pillsbury Social Media, Entertainment &... on 4/17/2013

Check out this Mobile Payments Infographic brought to you by the Mobile Payments Working Group, as part of the Application Developers Alliance. Pillsbury team members Jim Gatto, Deb Thoren-Peden and JiJi Park are all members...more

IRS Capitalized Legal Fees Incurred by Pharmaceutical Company

by En-Jiun Ma, Philip McCarty, Dwight Mersereau | McDermott Will & Emery on 4/15/2013

In a recently released Field Attorney Advice, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Office of Chief Counsel concluded that a pharmaceutical company must capitalize legal fees incurred to obtain Food and Drug Administration...more

Accredited Crowdfunding, Internet Advertising And General Solicitation

by Jill Radloff | Leonard, Street and Deinard - Dodd-Frank and... on 4/5/2013

The SEC recently granted two accredited crowdfunding sites exemptions from the broker-dealer rules because the type of carried interest (or close equivalent) used to compensate the site is not transaction based compensation. ...more

California Considers Revisions To Its Money Transmission Act

by BuckleySandler LLP on 4/4/2013

On March 11, the California State Assembly Standing Committee on Banking and Finance held a hearing entitled “Emerging Technology and the California Money Transmission Act.” The hearing’s purpose was to discuss the MTA’s...more

SEC OKs Social Media Sites for Financial Disclosures

by James G. Gatto | Pillsbury Social Media, Entertainment &... on 4/3/2013

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a report that makes clear that companies can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information in compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure...more

FTC Report on Mobile Payments

by Loeb & Loeb LLP on 3/27/2013

The Federal Trade Commission issued a report and recommendations for mobile payments called Paper, Plastic... or Mobile? An FTC Workshop on Mobile Payments, which is based on a workshop held by the Commission in 2012 to...more

President Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order; Pending Legislation Revived

by Loeb & Loeb LLP on 3/27/2013

President Barack Obama issued his administration's much-anticipated executive order on cybersecurity Feb. 12, to "enhance the security and resilience of the Nation's critical infrastructure and to maintain a cyber environment...more

Seed Financing Survey 2012 Internet/Digital Media and Software Industries

by Barry J. Kramer, Steven Levine | Fenwick & West LLP on 3/26/2013

In early 2011 we published our first Seed Financing Survey (for 2010) in recognition of the growing importance of seed financing to entrepreneurs and the venture capital environment, especially in the internet/digital media...more

FTC Points to Key Issues in New World of Mobile Payments

by Jeff Ifrah on 3/25/2013

Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission released a staff report outlining key issues facing consumers and companies as they adopt mobile payment services, entitled “Paper, Plastic . . . or Mobile? An FTC Workshop on...more

Historical Reform of the Mexican Telecommunications Industry

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/20/2013

The new President of Mexico, Mr. Peña Nieto, has reached an unprecedented multi-party agreement between his party, the Partido Revolucionario Industrial (PRI), and the rest of the major political forces: the Partido Acción...more

The Rise of Mobile Payments – Impact on M&A Activity in 2013

by Lucy Overbury | MoFo Tech on 3/20/2013

What’s involved? - A recent study by Juniper Research predicted that the total value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and near field communications transactions – short-range wireless...more

Advertising News & Analysis - March 14, 2013

by Ellen Traupman Berge, Thomas Gilbertsen, Maggie Grace, Gary D. Hailey, Jeffrey D. Knowles, Amy Ralph Mudge, Jonathan L. Pompan | Venable LLP on 3/18/2013

In this issue: - FTC’s .com Disclosures: New Media Still Subject to Old Rules - Paper, Plastic...or Mobile? FTC Issues Report on Mobile Payments - Why So Negative on Negative Option? - Cy Pres...more

Retailers Beware: Common Credit Card and Marketing Data Collection Practices Could Violate Law

by Richard Green | McCarter & English, LLP on 3/18/2013

Already home to one of the toughest data protection laws in the country, Massachusetts now joins California in having expansive protections for data exchanged during a credit card transaction....more

Advertising Law - Mar 15, 2013

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/15/2013

In This Issue: SPECIAL FOCUS: FTC Releases Updated Guidance for Digital Marketers; Less Dry or Moisturized? NAD Decides; FTC Targets Lack of Security on Mobile Device's Software; Apple, Parents Reach Deal on In-App...more

Cybersecurity: President Obama’s Executive Order Is Only the Beginning

by David Ransom | McDermott Will & Emery on 3/14/2013

This On the Subject outlines why hospitals and financial services and communications companies should pay attention to the recent executive order entitled “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity.”...more

FTC Releases Report on Improving Consumer Protections in Mobile Payments; Recommends Financial, Privacy and Data Security...

by D. Reed Freeman, Jr., Matthew W. Janiga, Obrea O. Poindexter | Morrison & Foerster LLP on 3/14/2013

On March 8, 2013 the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released a Report on mobile payments that serves to follow up on the FTC’s April 2012 workshop on mobile payments, as well as to lay the groundwork for the application of...more

FTC Releases Report on Mobile Payments; Guidance on Addressing Issues in Mobile Carrier Billing, Privacy and Data Security

by Brian J. Hurh | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 3/14/2013

Earlier this month, the FTC released a Report highlighting some of the key issues in the mobile payments space, with particular focus on mobile carrier billing, privacy and data security, and international payments. The...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update: NIST Issues Request for Information on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Practices

by John Beahn, Antoinette Bush, Joshua Gruenspecht, Stuart D. Levi, Ivan A. Schlager | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/5/2013

On February 26, following close on the heels of the recent executive order setting forth the administration’s approach to the regulation of critical infrastructure network security, the National Institute of Standards and...more

Levick Weekly - March 1, 2013: The Libor Scandal; Prosecutors Have A New Plan

by Gene Grabowski, Richard S. Levick | LEVICK on 3/4/2013

In This Issue: - The Food Safety Modernization Act - The LIBOR Scandal - Prosecutors Have a New Plan - Food Safety Compliance - A Hogan Lovells Roundtable - Lessons from the Oldest CEO Succession Plan on...more

SEC Speaks: Agency Takes Back-To-Basics Approach In Face Of Changing Leadership, Congressional Mandates And New Technologies

by Regina LaMonica, Jose Lopez, Keith Miller, Charles Mulaney, Pravin Rao | Perkins Coie on 2/25/2013

The annual “SEC Speaks” conference, in which Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) representatives review the agency’s efforts over the past year and preview the year to come, was held on February 22-23, 2013. A...more

Executive Order Begins Process Of Strengthening Nation’s Cybersecurity And Critical Infrastructure

by Sharon Klein, Jeffrey Vagle | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 2/22/2013

During his State of the Union address on February 12, 2013, President Barack Obama announced his signing of a long-anticipated Executive Order on cybersecurity. After months of discussions with technology companies the...more

Mobile banking and the Federal Circuit's "divided infringement" decisions

by Robert Becker, Neil Swartzberg | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 2/21/2013

The rapid growth of the mobile banking industry, the raft of litigation that has followed such growth, and why the Federal Circuit's much-anticipated "divided infringement" decisions in Akamai v. Limelight and McKesson v....more

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