Threat Stack Created a Security Platform for Businesses
May 18, 2013

Threat Stack is an online security system for businesses that provides a firewall to prevent hackers from breaking in. The...

TechStars Cloud’s Drifty.co Plans to Double in Size
May 18, 2013

Drifty.co already has 140,000 people using its web development tools. Founded in 2012, the company, based in Madison, Wisc., makes cloud-based tools that let anyone easily create mobile apps and websites. Max Lynch and Ben Sperry have created two products: Codiqa for mobile sites and websites and Jetstrap for developers. Sperry said he expects up to 300,000 users on its platform by the end of the year.

Arbitral Power to Rewrite the Contract: Has the Fifth Circuit Overextended Judicial Deference?
May 18, 2013

Does an arbitrator exceed her powers when, as a remedy for fraud in the inducement of a limited-duration intellectual property license, she modifies the contract “as a matter of law” to provide the licensor with a perpetual royalty-free license? The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing a Texas district court’s vacatur order, held that the arbitrator’s award should stand. (Timegate Studios, Inc. v. Southpeak Interactive, L.L.C., 2013 WL 1437710 (5th Cir. April 9, 2013)). Even...

ParLevel Systems Makes Vending Machines Smarter
May 18, 2013

ParLevel Systems, founded by Walter Teele and Luis Pablo Gonzalez, created a monitoring system for vending machines. San Antonio-based ParLevel installs wireless meters inside vending machines so that operators can generate real-time data on the machine’s inventory. ParLevel Systems gives vending machine operators more information about their customers and products. ParLevel pitched before several hundred people at the Empire Theatre in downtown San Antonio Thursday during TechStars Cloud...

Fastcase Gets Negative Treatment
May 18, 2013

Product of the week ending April 26: Bad Law Bot Manufacturer: Washington, D.C.-based Fastcase, Inc. Description: The...

Lawyers Like Storing Data Online
May 18, 2013

For a profession sometimes criticized as being slow to change, the law seems to be flying into use of cloud computing for legal...

Winning the Internet with Social Media
May 17, 2013

It is no longer surprising to find your mother or second-grade gym teacher on Facebook, nor should we be surprised by the rise...

The Next Frontier of Technology: Making Divorce Easier
May 17, 2013

Even the divorce process is getting easier thanks to technology. Meet Wevorce, a startup coming out of esteemed startup “school” Y Combinator. It’s an online service that breaks the process of getting a divorce into discrete steps that are easily managed without having to get into a messy court battle. Here’s how it works: The process identifies a couple as being a certain “archetype” (there are 18 total) and then walks through the process of the divorce step-by-step. It covers...

New Jersey Court Mulls Liability for Sending Driver Text Message
May 17, 2013

It's common knowledge that texting and driving is a bad idea and, in a number of jurisdictions, illegal. New Jersey is one of them. But what about sending a text to someone you know is behind the wheel? In addition to moral responsibility, could there be any civil liability for doing so? That is the question currently being considered by a New Jersey appeals court, after a trial judge in Morristown dismissed a claim brought by two injured motorcyclists against a teenager who texted a male friend...

Dallas Appeals Court Compels Arbitration in Interlocutory Appeal
May 17, 2013

The Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has ruled in an interlocutory appeal that a lower court committed error when...