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Google cleared of defamation by Australia’s High Court
Australia’s highest court has overturned a ruling that had found Google engaged in defamation by supplying a link to a contested newspaper article. Read more…
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Musk has a legal fight on his hands if he wants to quit Twitter deal
Elon Musk wants to terminate his $44 billion Twitter deal. “Oh no you don’t,” says Twitter board, who will fight to enforce the agreement. Read more…
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Clearview AI accepts database usage restrictions to settle lawsuit
Clearview AI will restrict access to its image database to resolve a lawsuit accusing it of collecting people’s photos without permission. Read more…
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Twitter’s poison pill is a pile of lawsuits waiting to happen
Twitter’s poison pill to block a take-over by Elon Musk is arguably a breach of fiduciary duty that could lead to multiple lawsuits. Read more…
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Australian mining billionaire takes on Facebook over scam ads
Iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest is launching criminal proceedings against Facebook in an Australian court over money laundering and scam ads. Read more…
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Ericsson sues Apple over 5G patent royalties (yes, again)
Ericsson has filed another set of patent infringement lawsuits against Apple over royalty payment for use of 5G wireless patents in iPhones. Read more…
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Future Retail asks India court to declare Amazon arbitration case illegal
India’s Future Retail has asked a New Delhi court to declare arbitration proceedings in Singapore with Amazon as illegal. Read more…
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Australia’s top internet service providers sued by regulator, speed claims
Australia’s consumer regulator files lawsuits against the country’s top internet providers for allegedly making incorrect claims about speeds. Read more…
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The US net neutrality landscape is now fragmented and weird
A US court says states can write their own net neutrality rules. Strangely the legal reasoning has little to do with net neutrality. Or how the internet works. Read more…
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Huawei slaps US govt with lawsuit over “unconstitutional” ban
Huawei sues the US government over the NDAA 2019 – which bans Huawei from government contracts – on the grounds that the ban is unconstitutional. Read more…
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Bangladesh files suit against Philippines bank over cyber-heists
Bangladesh files lawsuit in a U.S. court against Philippine bank Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) over its role in one of the world’s biggest cyber-heists. Read more…
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Qualcomm must license tech to competitors: judge
(Reuters) – A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that chip seller Qualcomm must license some of its technology to competitors such as Intel. The preliminary ruling came in an antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm brought Read more…
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No, the Supreme Court did not end the net neutrality debate
ITEM: On Monday, the US Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) declined to hear a case brought by telecoms companies to reverse earlier rulings by lower courts that the 2015 Obama-era net neutrality rules were Read more…
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DOJ indicts UMC and Fujian Jinhua for stealing Micron secrets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Justice Department on Thursday unveiled an indictment against Taiwan-based United Microelectronics, China state-owned Fujian Jinhua and three individuals, saying they conspired to steal trade secrets from US semiconductor company Micron Read more…
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Apple is $7b behind in royalty payments, claims Qualcomm
(Reuters) – Qualcomm said in a court hearing on Friday that Apple is $7 billion behind in patent royalty payments to the mobile chip firm, which for years supplied parts for the iPhone. The two Read more…
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Altaba settles hacking-related lawsuits for $47m
Altaba – the holding company formerly known as Yahoo! – said on Monday it has reached an agreement to settle three lawsuits over two massive cyber security breaches for $47 million. Yahoo! revealed in 2016 Read more…
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Google faces class-action lawsuit over mobile tracking
(Reuters) – Google has been accused in a lawsuit of illegally tracking the movements of millions of iPhone and Android phone users even when they use a privacy setting to prevent it. According to a Read more…
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AT&T sued after mobile ID theft leads to stolen cryptocurrency
NEW YORK (Reuters) – US entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor Michael Terpin filed a $224 million lawsuit on Wednesday against telecommunications company AT&T, accusing it of fraud and gross negligence in connection with the theft of Read more…
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US e-commerce sales tax ruling mainly impacts smaller players
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Complying with a US Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that forces online retailers to collect sales tax just like their brick-and-mortar counterparts will be a heavy burden for smaller e-commerce businesses. Read more…
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China is fast becoming preferred global judiciary for IP disputes
(Reuters) – A smartphone patent fight between Huawei Technologies and Samsung Electronics could reach a global resolution through a ruling by a Chinese court, a development that reflects the growing attractiveness of China as a Read more…