'Spam King' to pay Facebook $711 million

Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.

Spam is not only irritating, it is bad for the environment

Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social-networking Web site, was awarded $711 million in damages against a spammer who gained access to users' accounts and sent phony messages.

Sanford Wallace, a notorious spammer who calls himself the “Spam King” and was indicted on charges of plastering millions of unwanted messages on Facebook, has surrendered to the FBI.

Sanford Wallace, a notorious spammer who calls himself the “Spam King” and was indicted on charges of plastering millions of unwanted messages on Facebook, has surrendered to the FBI.

The agency at the heart of Canada’s security and intelligence network — and which investigates threats to cyber-security — appears to have had its own websites compromised by rogue online vendors of Viagra and other pharmaceuticals.

Why?

As we all know Apple and Samsung have been fighting it out in courtrooms around the world. The big win so far for Apple has been the patent case in California. And that $1.05 billion award has just been slashed: District Court Judge Lucy Koh lowered the damages awarded to Apple by $450.5m, saying jurors had not properly followed her instruction in calculating some of the damages. The ruling reduced Samsung Electronics' bill to just under $599m.