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Google (GOOGL) suffered one of its biggest setbacks on Wednesday when a top European court fined it 4.125 billion euros ($4.13 billion) for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals, offering a precedent for other regulators to ratchet up pressure. The unit of US tech giant Alphabet had challenged an earlier ruling, but the decision was broadly upheld by the Europe’s second-highest court in Wednesday’s… Source link

The lawyer for 24 women who filed civil suits against Deshaun Watson held a media conference Thursday in which he criticized an arbitrator’s six-game suspension of the Cleveland Browns quarterback as a “kiss on the cheek,” then called on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to “do the right thing” in an appeal that will determine Watson’s final punishment. In a wandering set of remarks that criticized the NFL’s investigation into Watson, Houston attorney Tony Buzbee expressed… Source link

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has named the designee to oversee the league’s appeal of Deshaun Watson’s six-game suspension. Former New Jersey attorney general Peter C. Harvey will hear the appeal, the league announced on Thursday. “Mr. Harvey served as the Attorney General of New Jersey and is now a partner at the Paterson Belknap firm in New York,” the league said in a statement. “He has also served as a federal prosecutor. He has deep expertise in criminal law, including domestic… Source link

BEREA, Ohio — The NFL has moved to appeal the six-game suspension handed down to Deshaun Watson after deliberating over Monday’s personal conduct judgement by arbitrator Sue L. Robinson, the league announced Wednesday. This effectively extends the league’s personal conduct case against Watson into next week, and puts the final determination into the hands of commissioner Roger Goodell or any designee he appoints to hear the appeal. “Under the 2020 NFL-NFLPA collective bargaining… Source link

About 60% of lower-priced homeowners may pay higher property taxes than their counterparts who own more expensive homes, according to a new study released Tuesday. Why? Owners of those higher-valued properties, ranging from $500,000 to $1.2 million, are at least two times more likely to appeal their property taxes and possibly pay far less, said Ownwell, a property-based startup in Austin, Texas. The amount of appeals depends on the county and the state. For example, homeowners of higher-value… Source link

Ukraine’s IT sector boasted some of the highest salaries in the country, long before Russia invaded, with roughly 200-thousand workers providing critical services to tech giants and other major industries around the world. As the country enters its seventh week of the war, some of its top tech executives are making direct appeals to those same international firms to stick with them, even as fears of a brain drain consume the domestic market. “We are showing [the world] that we can continue… Source link

Konstantin Malofeev, chairman of the board of directors of the Tsargrad media group, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Moscow, Russia September 16, 2021. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register March 17 (Reuters) – The television channel of a sanctioned Russian businessman on Thursday said Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google had lost a court appeal against a 2021 ruling that the company pay a compounding fine for blocking access… Source link

Jan 20 (Reuters) – Google is filing an appeal at the European Union’s top court against an earlier decision to uphold a $2.8 billion antitrust fine, a spokesperson for the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit said late on Thursday, the company’s second bid to overturn the penalty. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager fined the world’s most popular internet search engine in 2017 over the use of its own price comparison shopping service to gain an unfair advantage over smaller European rivals. The… Source link

Google Street View cameras are seen on a vehicle proceeding up Yonge Street in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Chris Helgren Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Street View vehicles improperly collected Wi-Fi data Google settled claims with class of millions of people Agreed to pay internet privacy interest groups, but not class members The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are… Source link

Google has won an appeal against a class action-style privacy litigation at the UK Supreme Court — avoiding what could have been up to £3BN in damages had it lost the case. The long-running litigation was brought by veteran consumer rights campaigner, Richard Lloyd, who, since 2017, has been pursing a collective lawsuit, alleging Google applied a Safari workaround to override iPhone users’ privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser between 2011 and 2012 — and seeking… Source link