NEW YORK — Zillow and Trulia, two companies that changed the way people shop for homes, are combining. Real estate website operator Zillow Inc. is buying its rival in a $3.5 billion deal that will make the biggest player in ...

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NEW YORK — Mix blatant bigotry with poor spelling. Add a dash of ALL CAPS. Top it off with a violent threat. And there you have it: A recipe for the worst of online comments, scourge of the Internet. Blame ...

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SALT LAKE CITY — Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous. Breaches were reported this week in Boston, Syracuse, ...

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ALBANY — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office has reached settlements with eight health insurance companies that require them to ensure the accuracy of provider directories on their websites. The attorney general’s office says the companies will ...

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The Internet is ubiquitous. Many of us get a growing amount of news from our favorite sites. The challenge is to cover essential websites (or classes of websites) for lawyers without referencing Google or some of the more obvious online destinations.

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U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer is calling for a crackdown on online pharmacies that illegally sell prescription drugs to customers without a prescription from a doctor. In the face of growing wave of prescription drug abuse and its related crime ...

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The big domain family of .com, .net, .edu and .org just added a new group. A decade long battle over the introduction of a new domain specifically for pornography ended last week with the introduction of the new .xxx domain.

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The recent reprimand of five attorneys from a Louisiana law firm for failing to supervise a non-lawyer employee who put up inaccurate information on the firm’s website offers lessons for lawyers outside the state.

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The ABA has released a formal opinion that outlines the ethical pitfalls of legal websites and recommends how to avoid them. Formal Opinion 10-457 addresses three main hot-spots for law firm websites ...

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Lawyers use websites to attract potential clients, but that type of communication can invite confusion from the public if it is not clearly marked, the American Bar Association said last week.

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ALBANY — The New York Bar Association says it’s ethical for lawyers to comb social networking websites to collect damaging information on opposing parties in lawsuits.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. will be able to continue posting content from The Associated Press under a new licensing deal the two companies announced Monday after months of sometimes thorny negotiations.

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