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French fashion house Hermes is refusing to be bagged by Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. On Thursday, a French court of appeals confirmed a January decision that will allow the descendants of Thierry Hermes to form a holding company to keep a majority of shares in family hands.

The Japanese are the world's most voracious consumers of luxury goods, from Louis Vuitton handbags to Cartier jewelry to Hermes high fashion. So purveyors of those luxury goods are justifiably worried about the effect of the Japanese quake and tsunami on their bottom lines.

In a startling legal verdict that could send chills through the American Internet service provider industry, a California jury has awarded Louis Vuitton, the signature division of worldwide luxury titan LVMH, $32.4 million in damages in a key test of ISP liability in Web counterfeiting. A federal...

Like my fellow writer, Gary Sattler, I'm a pretty big fan of eBay. Over the years, I've watched the site grow. I've used it to raise money, get rid of junk, buy presents for my wife, and generally just drool. In the best of times, eBay has represented a sort of capitalist utopia, where buyers and...