Wearables company Jawbone is long-dead — it went out of business in 2017 — but its patents live on, and someone is using them to sue Apple and Google. As first reported by Bloomberg News, an entity named Jawbone Innovations LLC filed lawsuits against the two tech giants this week in federal court in Waco, Texas. The suits allege that Apple and Google infringed eight patents previously belonging to Jawbone and focused around noise-isolation algorithms originally developed for DARPA.

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Also in today’s EMEA regional roundup: Truphone expands its IoT reach with Sony; mobile money booms in sub-Saharan Africa; Orange extends 4G in French Guiana. Yandex, Russia’s answer to Amazon, is planning to launch its cloud business in Germany in 2022, with an initial investment of $30 million, Reuters reports (paywall may apply). Yandex currently claims 12,400 cloud clients, and its cloud revenue is expected to reach around 3 billion roubles ($41 million) in 2021. According to the report,… Source link

Gary Cohn, a key architect of former President Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, has a new mission.  “We now need to get people back into the workforce and we need to force people in many respects to re-enter the workforce,” Cohn told Yahoo Finance Live. Cohn said he is worried the current shortage of labor threatens to undermine the ability of American businesses to compete at home and globally. The U.S. Department of Labor’s latest JOLTS report showed there are almost 11 million job… Source link

Cryptocurrency electronic cash bitcoin banner advertisement seen in Hong Kong. (SOPA Images/Sipa USA) Bitcoin tumbled on Friday afternoon as the People’s Bank of China said all cryptocurrency-related transactions are illegal. The central bank vowed to crack down on illegal activities of cryptocurrency trading and banned overseas exchanges from providing services to mainland investors. It also said it will stop all companies from facilitating cryptocurrency trading and will strengthen monitoring… Source link

Ben Gwin works for Google Shopping in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Though he is technically a temporary worker at the tech giant, Gwin and 65 of his colleagues are now represented by the United Steelworkers union. The group of workers ratified their first union contract in July after two years at the bargaining table with their contractor, HCL America Inc. The contract victory was historic in an industry that has aggressively opposed union drives, especially among temp and contracted employees.

File Photo: The logo of the Russian internet group Yandex was taken on October 4, 2018 at the company’s headquarters in Moscow, Russia. REUTERS / Shamil Zhumatov / File Photo September 24, 2021 Moscow (Reuters) -Russian internet company Yandex plans to launch a cloud business in Germany in 2022 with an initial investment of $ 30 million announced prior to Friday’s annual Yandex.Scale cloud conference. .. Yandex.Cloud revenue is expected to double to around 3 billion rubles in 2021, but… Source link

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian internet firm Yandex plans to launch its cloud business in Germany in 2022, with an initial investment of $30 million, the company said ahead of its annual Yandex.Scale cloud conference on Friday. Yandex.Cloud’s revenue is seen tripling to around 3 billion roubles in 2021 but, having launched in 2018, it remains one of Yandex’s smaller business lines. Group revenue for 2021 is seen at between 330 and 340 billion roubles. “This is a very important step…. Source link

The logo of Russian internet group Yandex is pictured at the company’s headquarter in Moscow, Russia October 4, 2018. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo MOSCOW, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Russian internet firm Yandex (YNDX.O) plans to launch its cloud business in Germany in 2022, with an initial investment of $30 million, the company said ahead of its annual Yandex.Scale cloud conference on Friday. Yandex.Cloud’s revenue is seen tripling to around 3 billion roubles in 2021 but, having launched in… Source link

Russian federal competition watchdog FAS has ordered internet search engine Yandex to stop discriminating against competing services in its search results, the regulator told RIA-Novosti. Following the FAS investigation, Yandex could face a fine on the basis of its revenues for the violation of competition law. Source link