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Metallica returns to stage after losing lawsuit, triumphs at Helping Hands benefit show

Metallica returns to stage after losing lawsuit, triumphs at Helping Hands benefit show

(L-R) Robert Trujillo, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett of Metallica perform onstage as Metallica Presents: The Helping Hands Concert on Dec. 16, 2022. (Photo: Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for P+ and MTV) Metallica just lost their long-running legal battle against Lloyd’s of London, with a California judge absolving the insurance market company of any financial losses stemming from the band’s forced postponement of six 2020 South American shows due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But… Source link

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Google asks court to toss out federal antitrust lawsuit

Google asks court to toss out federal antitrust lawsuit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google asked a federal court late on Monday to toss out the U.S. Justice Department’s 2020 lawsuit against it, which alleged that the search giant violated antitrust law to maintain dominance in its search business. Documents laying out Google’s reasoning for the summary judgment request were sealed. When it was filed, the company said the lawsuit was “deeply flawed” and “relies on dubious antitrust arguments.” It argued that its overwhelming market… Source link

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Lawsuit against Google over app store competition gets class-action designation

Lawsuit against Google over app store competition gets class-action designation

Nov 28 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge in California on Monday allowed litigation against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google to proceed as a consumer class action of 21 million individuals who accuse the company of violating U.S. anti-competition laws in how it runs its Google Play app store. U.S. District Judge James Donato said in a 27-page order that the plaintiffs had established the legal elements of “commonality” and other factors to form a class action that alleges anticompetitive business… Source link

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Judge dismisses Miami restaurateur’s lawsuit against Google

Judge dismisses Miami restaurateur’s lawsuit against Google

A judge ruled that Google-owned ordering pages for restaurants are not deceptive. / Photograph: Shutterstock A Miami restaurateur’s attempt to sue Google over its online ordering system has hit a wall after a judge ruled that Google’s interface is above board. Left-Field Holdings, the operator of six Lime Fresh Grill locations, accused Google of deceiving customers and violating trademark law with online ordering pages that were set up for Left-Field’s restaurants without… Source link

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Lawsuit claims Google knew its ‘Incognito mode’ doesn’t protect users’ privacy

Lawsuit claims Google knew its ‘Incognito mode’ doesn’t protect users’ privacy

Comment on this story Comment Hi all, Gerrit De Vynck here. I’m a tech reporter for The Post out in San Francisco. You can follow me on Twitter at @GerritD.  Lawsuit challenges Google’s claim that its ‘Incognito mode’ protects users’ privacy It can be hard to keep track of all the lawsuits against Google. The Department of Justice filed one in 2020 and might have another one coming soon. Texas has at least two. Arizona recently settled theirs with the search giant for $85 million. And

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‘This lawsuit isn’t about bitcoin’

‘This lawsuit isn’t about bitcoin’

Grayscale Investments filed its first brief last week in its legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the agency’s refusal to let it convert its bitcoin fund into an exchange-traded fund. In an interview Monday for Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit, Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein says that the litigation transcends its own attempts to launch a spot bitcoin ETF. “We really feel that this lawsuit isn’t about bitcoin,” Sonnenshein told Yahoo Finance’s… Source link

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Epic seeks to expand lawsuit against Google over app store developer deals

Epic seeks to expand lawsuit against Google over app store developer deals

CARY – Epic Games is seeking to broaden its lawsuit against Google over antitrust issues involving Google’s Android app store, saying the internet giant is paying developers to not create competing apps. Google denies the claim. “Epic and Match are adding more inaccurate claims to their failing lawsuits and we’re looking forward to setting the record straight in court,” a company spokesperson told Engadget, which reported a new filing that Epic made late Friday in federal… Source link

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Google Settles Consumer Privacy Lawsuit For $85 Million

Google Settles Consumer Privacy Lawsuit For $85 Million

Google parent company Alphabet Inc. will pay $85 million to end a consumer privacy lawsuit filed by the state of Arizona. The suit, which was filed in May 2020, alleged the search engine violated the state’s Consumer Fraud Act and misled internet users about its use of location data and data collection practices. It accused Google of continuing to track user location without consent in order to increase ad revenue, even after users had turned off location history in settings. Arizona… Source link

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Google to pay Arizona $85M settlement in user location privacy lawsuit

PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has entered an $85 million settlement with Google LLC for allegedly tracking the users’ location with “deceptive and unfair” practices to sell advertisements, his office announced Tuesday. Brnovich started investigating Google after a 2018 Associated Press article said the company was misleading consumers on how they were tracking and using their location data, according to a news release. In May 2020, Brnovich sued Google for allegedly… Source link

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AZ and Google settle consumer fraud lawsuit for $85 million

AZ and Google settle consumer fraud lawsuit for $85 million

Arizona and Google announced a settlement Tuesday in a consumer fraud lawsuit, allowing the tech behemoth to pay $85 million instead of going to court later this month.  Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed the lawsuit against Google in 2020. The lawsuit was the result of a larger investigation that was prompted by 2018 reporting by the Associated Press revealing certain Google applications store location data without asking, and that deleting the data… Source link

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