Microsoft and Google agreed on Friday to withdraw complaints against each other with regulators around the world, as the two American tech giants continued recent efforts to settle the once-bitter conflicts between them. [The New York Times]
The pop music world suffered a huge loss on Thursday with the sudden death of Prince, who will be long remembered as one of the industry’s most innovative and influential stars. [WSJ]
The patent and trademark office's apparent drive to clear its backlog of applications has hit a legal roadblock, with the Tatas and a group of intellectual property attorneys dragging it to court. [The Economic Times]