Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) antitrust fight will return to state court after its February 14 federal trial was canceled by a judge last week. The change comes as New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked for the case to go back to the state level in light of developments limiting the amount of damages that New York sought in its federal case.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is stirring the pot in the online travel site arena after placing its flight-search service at the top of web search results. Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE), Orbitz (NYSE:OWW) and Priceline (NASDAQ:PCLN), which produce 10 percent to 20 percent of their traffic from Google searches, believe the company is violating Department of Justice guidelines for entry into the $11 billion online flight booking business.

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For the next few years, telecom capex growth has modest growth estimates while mobile data spending has been forecast as a growth area. According to Cisco System Inc.’s (CSCO) Visual Networking Index, it estimates that mobile data traffic per user will grow by 15 times or more in large markets from 2010 to 2015.

Key providers of mobile data networking gear includes Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV), Allot Communications Ltd (NASDAQ:ALLT) and Procera Networks, Inc. (AMEX:PKT).

The USPTO’s recent Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) rejection improves Google’s (GOOG) case in their patent dispute, by throwing out a patent claim argued by Oracle, along with 16 other claims, in its litigation. Oracle is asking for $2 billion in damages from the search engine giant over Android’s usage of Java programming language; it has six months to appeal the decision.

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Yahoo Inc.’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) CEO marathon search is taking almost as long as its “strategic review.” The current list of candidates in the CEO carousel, according to AllThings D, includes ex-Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CFO Chris Liddell, Publicis (PUBGY) exec Laura Desmond, and Google exec/ex-DoubleClick CEO David Rosenblatt.

Hulu’s (NYSE:DIS)(NASDAQ:CMCSA) Jason Kilar and Google’s Nikesh Arora have also been recently added as rumored candidates.

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