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- World
US SEC files lawsuit against Musk ahead of Trump inauguration
Washington: Just days ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th US President, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against his best ally Elon Musk over an alleged…
- Technology
Google to face lawsuit over Chrome’s data collection: US court
San Francisco: Tech giant Google will face a class-action lawsuit in the US over alleged data collection via Chrome browser without users’ consent, a court here has ruled. A federal appeals court…
- Technology
Musk sues OpenAI and its CEO over agreement breach around AI
San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday, March 1 sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging they breached their original contractual agreements around AI. The lawsuit, filed in…
- Technology
Apple wins Apple Watch antitrust lawsuit with AliveCor
San Francisco: Apple has won its ongoing legal battle with the US-based medical device company AliveCor over the Apple Watch’s heart monitoring technology. AliveCor had accused Apple of limiting third-party access to…
- Business
eBay agrees to pay $59 mn to settle lawsuit related to sales of pill-making tools
San Francisco: E-commerce platform eBay has agreed to pay $59 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that it assisted in the sale of pill press machines that can be used to manufacture…
- Middle East
Karim Benzema files defamation suit against France minister
Karim Benzema, the French footballer who currently plays for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad, has filed a defamation lawsuit against France’s minister of the interior Gerald Darmanin. This comes in response after Darmanin…
- Technology
Meta accused of illegally collecting kids’ data on Instagram: Report
San Francisco: A newly unsealed court document from an ongoing federal lawsuit against Meta (formerly Facebook) alleged that the tech giant knowingly refused to shut down the majority of Instagram accounts of…
- Technology
Video call screensharing error gets Nvidia sued over ‘stolen trade secrets’
San Francisco: Automotive technology company Valeo has sued graphics chip giant Nvidia after a video call screen-sharing between the two companies showed ‘stolen’ data from Valeo, accusing Nvidia of having saved hundreds…
- Technology
Uber, Lyft to pay USD 328 million to drivers in wage-theft settlement
New York: In a significant development, Uber and Lyft on Thursday agreed to pay a combined $328 million to settle charges that the ride-hailing platforms “unlawfully withheld wages from drivers”, and failed…
- Technology
Google ordered to pay $1.1 mn to female executive over gender discrimination
San Francisco: Google will have to pay $1.1 million to a company executive who filed a complaint against the tech giant for gender-based discrimination, a jury in the US has ruled. The…
- Business
Apple faces lawsuit over ‘Tetris’ movie by Gizmodo editor
San Francisco: Daniel Ackerman, editor-in-chief of tech news site Gizmodo, has sued Apple and other parties over the 2023 Apple TV+ film ‘Tetris’, claiming that the movie unlawfully lifted content from his…
- Technology
3 US designers sue Chinese fashion giant Shein over copying their creative work
San Francisco: Three US fashion designers — Krista Perry, Larissa Martinez and Jay Baron — have sued Chinese fast-fashion company Shein which is valued at a staggering $66 billion, for allegedly stealing…
- World
Indian-origin techie accuses Meta of anti-Asian bias, files lawsuit
New York: An Indian-origin tech executive from Singapore has filed a lawsuit with the California’s Civil Rights Department accusing Meta of racial discrimination that cost her promotions and work opportunities. Vaishnavi Jayakumar,…
- Technology
Twitter faces lawsuit over unpaid bills in 4 countries
San Francisco: Elon Musk-owned Twitter is facing a lawsuit after being accused of failing to pay for services for offices located in London, Dublin, Sydney and Singapore. A Sydney-based infrastructure company Facilitate…
- World
OpenAI sued for stealing data from public to train ChatGPT
San Francisco: Sam Altman-run OpenAI has been sued in a class-action lawsuit in the US for allegedly stealing data from the public to train its AI chatbot ChatGPT. The lawsuit, filed in…
