Tag Archives: suit

Altaba Inc., successor entity to the former Silicon Valley giant Yahoo Inc., must retain $800 million as it dissolves to cover the maximum damages it could face in connection with a Canadian data breach class action, a Delaware judge ruled. Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster set the amount in a post-trial ruling for Delaware’s Chancery Court, citing Altaba’s agreement to split any data breach damages with Verizon Communications Inc., which later bought and resold the Yahoo business through… Source link

Droplets Inc. is owed $15 million because Yahoo! Inc.’s Search Suggest feature infringes one of the company’s patents, a California federal jury found. Search Suggest offers suggestions when people type words into the Yahoo search bar. The jury decided Tuesday other Yahoo products, including Yahoo’s Search History feature, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Maps didn’t infringe Droplet’s U.S. Patent No. 6,687,745, covering a system for delivering interactive links. Texas-based Droplets filed the… Source link

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount with Chelsey Glasson, who said she faced discrimination by the search giant after she became pregnant. Glasson sued Google in 2020 after repeated efforts to report pregnancy discrimination were ignored, she said in October. She estimated her legal fight would cost more than $100,000 and take a heavy toll on her mental health. Glasson said her experience at Google left her with insomnia, panic attacks and heart… Source link

Washington, D.C., and two states filed new lawsuits against Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -2.15% Google, accusing it of deceiving consumers by recording their location even after users tried to turn off the company’s tracking. Google falsely told customers that if they opted out of collection of their “Location History” or other settings, Google wouldn’t store the places they went, according to a lawsuit… 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

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American 

With help from Leah Nylen Editor’s Note: Morning Tech is a free version of POLITICO Pro Technology’s morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro. — Hitting pause: Google is heading to court this week in a bid to block “highly sensitive information” about its business from being revealed in… Source link

The logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York’s Times Square. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has refiled a claim in federal court alleging that Facebook (FB) is breaking antitrust laws, buy running an illegal “buy-or-bury” scheme. “Facebook has maintained its monopoly position in significant part by pursuing CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s strategy, expressed in 2008: ‘it is better to buy than compete,'” the agency wrote in its Source link

Scarlett Johansson and Disney (DIS) locked horns on Thursday over the release of “Black Widow,” with the entertainment behemoth dismissing a high-stakes breach of contract lawsuit as “sad and distressing.” Johansson, who starred in multiple Marvel Cinematic Universe movies as Natasha “Black Widow” Romanov, fired the first salvo in a bombshell filing that alleged Disney broke its contract with her by releasing her solo feature on streaming platform Disney+ on the same day as… Source link

Epic has renewed its fight against mobile platforms’ app store restrictions, filing an update to its antitrust case against Google. The filing adds mostly redacted details about Google’s alleged monopolistic behavior on Android, including banning Epic’s game Fortnite from the Google Play Store last year. The amended complaint comes soon after a judge officially linked the case with a recent multi-state lawsuit, which took aim at Google’s Play Store policies. Epic’s complaint… Source link