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A civil lawsuit alleges that a former Yahoo employee stole valuable intellectual property when he downloaded approximately 570,000 pages of proprietary source code, ad placement algorithms, internal strategy documents and more upon securing a job offer from The Trade Desk, a direct competitor of Yahoo’s advertising technology arm. A civil suit indicates that Yahoo Ad Tech, together with Oath Holdings – a financial subsidiary of Yahoo Inc – are suing Qian Sang, who previously served as… Source link

A civil lawsuit alleges that a former Yahoo employee stole valuable intellectual property when he downloaded approximately 570,000 pages of proprietary source code, ad placement algorithms, internal strategy documents and more upon securing a job offer from The Trade Desk, a direct competitor of Yahoo’s advertising technology arm. A civil suit indicates that Yahoo Ad Tech, together with Oath Holdings – a financial subsidiary of Yahoo Inc – are suing Qian Sang, who previously served as… Source link

The Mississippi Department of Human Services has named Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre in a lawsuit seeking to recoup roughly $24 million in misspent welfare funds intended to combat poverty in one of the nation’s poorest states. The lawsuit filed on Monday seeks $3.2 million combined from Favre and Favre Enterprises, Inc. Favre is one of 38 defendants in the lawsuit that also names former pro wrestlers Brett and Ted DiBiase and their father Ted DiBiase Sr. aka “The Million Dollar… Source link

OAKLAND, Calif., May 9 (Reuters) – Dating apps maker Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) sued Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday, calling the action a “last resort” to prevent Tinder and its other apps from being booted off the Play store for refusing to share up to 30% of their sales. Match’s lawsuit is the latest to target Google’s allegedly anticompetitive conduct with the Play store, joining ongoing cases brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, dozens of U.S. state attorneys general and… Source link

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Elon Musk and Twitter Inc were sued on Friday by a Florida pension fund seeking to stop Musk from completing his $44 billion takeover of the social media company before 2025. In a proposed class action filed in Delaware Chancery Court, the Orlando Police Pension Fund said Delaware law forbade a quick merger because Musk had agreements with other big Twitter shareholders, including his financial adviser Morgan Stanley and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, to support… Source link

To Brian Flores, Steve Wilks and Ray Horton: Stay strong. Please stay strong. On Thursday, as part of documents submitted in the Flores class-action lawsuit against the league alleging racial discrimination, the NFL and the individual teams named in the lawsuit expressed their intention to file a motion to compel arbitration or alternatively, a motion to have the case dismissed entirely on the grounds that it is “without merit.” It’s to be expected that the league and teams would go this route… Source link

Petitions of the week By Andrew Hamm on Apr 22, 2022 at 11:19 am … Source link

A company’s public image is arguably even more important to its bottom line than the product they produce and very much not something to be trifled with. Would Disney be the entertainment behemoth it is today if not for its family-friendly facade, would Google have garnered so much goodwill if not for its “don’t be evil” motto? Nobody’s going to buy your cars if they think the company is run by some “pedo guy.” With the scale of business that modern tech giants operate at and the amounts of… Source link

A company’s public image is arguably even more important to its bottom line than the product they produce and very much not something to be trifled with. Would Disney be the entertainment behemoth it is today if not for its family-friendly facade, would Google have garnered so much goodwill if not for its “don’t be evil” motto? Nobody’s going to buy your cars if they think the company is run by some “pedo guy.” With the scale of business that modern tech giants operate at and the amounts of… Source link

Google fosters a work environment that marginalizes Black employees, denies people of color advancement opportunities and ignores sexual harassment claims, among other indiscretions, according to plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit filed against the company in California this week. At a press conference in San Francisco on Monday, attorney Ben Crump and two former employees of the search engine behemoth detailed what they called a “racist culture” at the enterprise headquartered in… Source link