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TAMPA, FLORIDA – JANUARY 31: An aerial view of Raymond James Stadium ahead of Super Bowl LV on … [+] January 31, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images) Getty Images Earlier this week Yahoo announced that it will host a pay-to-play, daily fantasy sports contest entirely based on the Super Bowl—making Yahoo into just the latest daily fantasy sports operator to drop the historic view that DFS contests have to be based on multiple… Source link

Google’s philanthropic arm plans to spend nearly $250,000 to cover application fees for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children and who are seeking protection from deportation under an Obama-era program. Google.org announced Wednesday it would donate the money to the nonprofit United We Dream. The funds will benefit about 500… Source link

Texas may pay tens of millions of dollars to outside attorneys hired to handle a major lawsuit against Google — money the state did not plan to spend before a scandal enveloped Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this fall. That’s under agreements signed last month with outside lawyers based in Chicago, Houston and Washington, D.C., including high-profile plaintiffs’ attorney Mark Lanier and the law firm Keller Lenkner, who will lead Texas’ multi-state… Source link

The legal fight between Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder and his three limited partners keeps getting messier. According to Daniel Kaplan of The Athletic, a new court filing reveals that the limited partners have accused Snyder of “corporate malfeasance,” and allege that he sent “intruders” to the home of the partners’ adviser, John Moag, to harass him. Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder has been accused of corporate malfeasance by his limited partners. (Rich… Source link

A group of high profile tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and VMWare have filed an amicus brief in support of Facebook’s legal action against NSO Group, Microsoft has announced. Facebook-owned WhatsApp sued the spyware vendor last year, alleging that its software was used to hack 1,400 devices via a vulnerability in the messaging service. Other companies listed on the filing include the Internet Association, and Microsoft subsidiaries GitHub and LinkedIn. In response to… Source link

The states said they worked closely with the Justice Department in their investigation. They interviewed hundreds of witnesses from Google and rival companies and collected more than 45,000 private documents as evidence. Thursday’s announcement reflects the deep interest among regulators around the world in Google’s signature search product. In Europe, regulators fined Google roughly $2.7 billion for privileging its own comparison shopping tool over those produced by independent websites…. Source link

Of the Big Four tech companies, Google was the first to be targeted by the federal government this year, but that likely wasn’t the end of the legal actions against the search giant. The Justice Department lawsuit, filed in late October with 11 state attorneys general, centers on Google’s conduct in the search market. Separate probes by the DOJ and states into Google’s power in digital advertising markets continue, as does the Justice Department’s review of Google’s… Source link

AUSTIN, Texas—Eight high-ranking employees of the Texas attorney general’s office reached out to law-enforcement authorities in September with a bold accusation, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month. They claimed that their boss, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, had illegally used his office to interfere with an FBI investigation into a campaign donor. In the weeks after the employees notified the attorney general’s office of their claims, all eight were… Source link

President Trump had speculated about potential voter fraud for weeks, even months, in the lead up to Election Day, prompting many observers to assume he might try to challenge some results if they didn’t play in his favor. As it turned out, his campaign has launched lawsuits seeking to halt vote counting in crucial battlegrounds including Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. But the plan, seemingly long in the making, apparently really only came together on Wednesday, The New York Times… Source link

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, Northern District of California U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh signed off on the $117.5 million data breach settlement with Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, but she slashed attorney fees by more than $7 million after concluding the deal was “unexceptional” and the legal work “not particularly novel.” Want to continue reading?Become a Free ALM Digital Reader. Benefits of a Digital Membership: … Source link