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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Files Racketeering Suits Over Alleged Crypto-App Scams  Bloomberg Source link

Google has settled two more of the many location tracking lawsuits it had been facing over the past year, and this time the search giant is getting an even better deal: just $29.5 million to resolve complaints filed in Indiana and Washington DC with no admission of wrongdoing. The cases filed in the Midwestern state and the capital are similar to those settled elsewhere in the US in the last 12 months and center on allegations that Google deceived users into handing over location data,… Source link

More antitrust litigation targeting Big (ad)Tech: Google is being sued in the U.K. and the Netherlands where two suits have been announced today seeking damages on behalf of publishers who claim they have been harmed by anti-competitive adtech practices. Per Reuters, publishers are seeking up to €25 billion in damages from Google for lost ad revenues via the litigation. Google’s adtech stack — and certain other ad-related practices  — are currently under investigation by both… Source link

Another major concern for the department is the likely expense of a court battle with the two companies, each of which has a market value exceeding $1 trillion. That issue became more fraught this week when Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) torpedoed Democrats’ Build Back Better package, which would have given DOJ a $500 million boost for antitrust enforcement. Senate Democrats vow to hold a vote on the $1.7 trillion bill anyway in January. The department could also get extra cash in other… Source link

Google has agreed to set up a privacy and online safety initiative for children in New Mexico, after being accused of violating U.S. law that governs children’s privacy on the internet. Driving the news: Google LLC and New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announced a settlement Monday over allegations Google violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and New Mexico state consumer protection laws. Two federal court cases New Mexico filed against Google are resolved by… Source link

Photo by: STRF/STAR MAX/IPx 2021 5/11/21 Regulators have been circling Amazon for years, alarmed at its heft and dominance. A new antitrust lawsuit will now test whether Amazon is ripping off consumers through anticompetitive behavior. The attorney general for the District of Colombia, Karl Racine, sued Amazon on May 25, claiming the online retail giant inflates prices by prohibiting the site’s third-party sellers from offering their products on other sites at lower prices than those listed… Source link

Law360 (April 22, 2021, 6:21 PM EDT) — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has struck down several claims of a communications patent involved in parallel infringement litigation against Google and Amazon in the Western District of Texas, finding the claims obvious over prior art. In a 79-page decision issued Wednesday, the PTAB invalidated each of the challenged claims in Hammond Development International Inc.’s communications systems patent for being obvious due to three published… Source link

HOUSTON — In what amounts to the most substantial legal response to date from Deshaun Watson regarding 22 civil lawsuits filed against him, the NFL quarterback’s attorney said Monday that all 22 women accusing Watson of sexual misconduct are lying. “Today we answered the lawsuits filed against our client Deshaun Watson,” Houston attorney Rusty Hardin said in a statement about the new legal filing. “Mr. Watson has been adamant that he did not engage in any improper conduct and we… Source link

WASHINGTON—Big Tech’s legal woes are expected to worsen in the coming weeks as federal and state antitrust authorities prepare to file new lawsuits against Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, people familiar with the matter said. The authorities are readying as many as four more cases targeting Google or Facebook by the end of January, these people said, following the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google last month.  Federal and… Source link

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. WASHINGTON—Big Tech’s legal woes are expected to worsen in the coming weeks as federal and state antitrust authorities prepare to file new lawsuits against Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, people familiar with the matter said. The authorities are readying as many as four more cases targeting Google or Facebook by the end of January, these people said, following the Justice… Source link