U.S. social media giant Twitter Inc has finally appointed a resident grievance officer for its unit in India days after designating a chief compliance officer to meet the country’s new IT rules. According to its website, Twitter has appointed Vinay Prakash as its new grievance officer along with his contact details; it has also listed…
On Tuesday, in a statement Uber said, it plans on winning back its license to operate in the city of London. The move comes in the wake of Britain’s transport regulator banning Uber from operating in the city over safety concerns. In 2019, Transport for London (TfL) had refused to grant Uber a new license…
In a significant win for Finnish telecommunication equipment maker Nokia, a German court has ruled against Daimler over patent licensing fees with the judge saying the carmaker had not made a serious attempt to resolve the issue with Nokia. The litigation underscores a wider battle with tech companies and carmakers over royalty payments for technologies…
According to court filings by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on Thursday, the DoD is asking permission from the court to reconsider certain aspects of its decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft Corp. Last month, a U.S. judge had granted Amazon.com Inc’s request to temporarily halt the DoD from…
Apple’s unfair business practices had led Spotify to lodge a complaint with the EU’s antitrust regulators. In a potentially significant development, Spotify has filed a complaint with the European Commission against Apple saying Cupertino unfair business practices limits rivals to its own Apple Music streaming service. According to Spotify’s complaint, “Apple’s control of its App…
The court verdict will remain pending if Apple were to go on appeal. Qualcomm has also received a similar ruling from a court in China. A German court ruled has ruled that Apple Inc has infringed on Qualcomm Inc’s hardware patent and said, Cupertino can no longer sell some of its iPhone models in Germany…
U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm had disclosed, a Chinese court had ordered a ban on the sales of selected older iPhone models for violating two of its patents. With Apple Inc facing a court ban in China over some of its iPhone models over alleged intellectual property infringements of Qualcomm Inc patents, Cupertino said on Friday, it…
The woman has alleged that although Facebook’s executives knew minors were being lured into the sex trade on the platform they remained mute spectators. A woman in Texas has dragged social networking giant Facebook to court alleging that at the age of 15, she was raped, beaten and trafficked for sex by a pimp who…
Equifax’s data breach is likely to be one of the most costly hacks in corporate history. The credit reporting firm is already facing a series of class action lawsuits and investigations by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and various state attorneys general. A ruling by Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Salinger in Boston, which…
Among other things – Google and Microsoft share a legacy of battling antitrust cases. Instead of doing the legal equivalent of the ostrich act, Google should recognize the signs and strategically change course. With the European Commission handing down an exemplary fine on Google, the search giant’s clash with antitrust enforcers in the EU has…
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