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• Google sued by DOJ over antitrust practices: What you need to know

  The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Google today, claiming the company has an illegal monopoly of search ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• TikTok will take Trump administration to the court over ban

  Popular short video app TikTok is aiming to take legal action against US President Donald Trump over the app's potential ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Apple rips into Epic Games in a court filing about the Fortnite saga

  Grab your popcorn everyone, and let's read the latest round of mud-slinging as Apple fires back at Epic Games in latest episode ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Genius loses lyric-scraping lawsuit against Google, despite watermark trick catching the Big G 'red-handed'

  Genius has lost a lawsuit against Google that claimed the Big G stole lyrics from its site, using Morse code to catch the ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• To head off regulators, Google makes certain words taboo

  As Google faces at least four major antitrust investigations on two continents, internal documents obtained by The Markup ...

  • The Markup

• How your company can limit its liability for US data collection lawsuits

  This article was originally published by Built In. As families and schools across the country adjust to the new normal ...

  • Built In

• Korean battery maker drama threatens Ford's all-electric F150 truck, US jobs

  A dispute between two key battery suppliers to the electric vehicle market could lead to "catastrophic delays," German carmaker ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Why your website's lack of accessibility options is opening you up to lawsuits

  Throughout this pandemic, we’ve all experienced a dramatic shift in our relationships with our devices. For a world that’s ...

  • Andrea Hak

• Here's how to claim your payout in the iPhone slowdown settlement

  Apple is paying $25 to everyone who was affected by its battery throttling (or "Batterygate) a few years ago. Here's how ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• The $2.6B Escobar vs. Apple lawsuit — here’s what the experts have to say

  The $2.6 billion Escobar vs. Apple lawsuit seems like it's full of shit, so we asked some people in the know. And, yeah, ...

  • Callum Booth

• YouTube sued for using AI to racially profile content creators

  A group of black content creators has sued YouTube for allegedly using AI to censor their videos based “wholly or in part” ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• You could get sued for embedding Instagram posts without permission

  If you have a news site or blog, with articles that have embedded Instagram posts, the post owner can sue you for breaching ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google faces $5 billion lawsuit over tracking users in incognito mode

  Google is facing a $5 billion class action lawsuit over tracking Chrome users' activity and browsing habits — even in incognito ...

  • Mix

• Apple ‘begs’ Escobar for extension on $2.6B lawsuit — Escobar DENIES

  The $2.6-billion legal saga between Escobar Inc and Apple (which is most likely an elaborate publicity stunt on the former's ...

  • Mix

• Pablo Escobar’s brother is suing Apple for $2.6B

  Yep, it appears that Pablo Escobar's brother — Roberto Escobar — is suing Apple for $2.6 billion. Why? Well, it's all ...

  • Callum Booth

• Judge rules Musk's 'Tesla stock too high imo' tweet troublesome, but not enough to sue

  Lawyers for disgruntled shareholders argued that “no rational Tesla lawyer or director could have approved" Musk's 'stock ...

  • David Canellis

• The crazy story how self-driving's biggest star stole Google secrets, joined Uber, and became bankrupt

  Anthony Levandowski was one of the self-driving industry's brightest and most influential minds. But his passion for progress ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Zoom sued by shareholder after security issues tanked its stock price

  Just when it looked like Zoom's getting its act together, the company's troubles got bad to worse. Yesterday, one of its ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• WeWork sues SoftBank for scrapping its $3 billion rescue deal

  It's really happening: WeWork is suing its biggest investor for going back on a $3 billion plan to rescue the company from ...

  • David Canellis

• Sprint stocks up 75% after judge approves $26.5 billion T-Mobile merger

  A federal judge has approved a T-Mobile and Sprint deal that will see the US telecommunications field shrink from four big ...

  • David Canellis

• Yep, T-Mobile and Sprint's $26.5 billion mega-merger is really happening

  More than two years after being stuck in litigation limbo, T-Mobile's $26.5 billion acquistion of strugging telecoms provider ...

  • David Canellis

• Quibi's not even here yet and it's already being sued

  Quibi, the fledgling streaming service most famous for showing different video depending on how your phone is oriented, is ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facial recognition company CEO says he doesn't need permission to use your face

  The CEO of facial recognition company Clearview AI, Hoan Ton-That, today gave his first network television interview on “CBS ...

  • Tristan Greene

• XRP Q4 2019: Crypto traders had one shot to make 20% profit

  Let's take a look back at how Ripple (XRP) performed in the fourth quarter of 2019, as the company itself continued to invest ...

  • David Canellis

• Craig Wright claims he's received keys to 'Satoshi' Bitcoin stash worth $8.6B

  The bonded courier holding the private keys to Craig Wright's Bitcoin stash has allegedly arrived, according to Craig Wright. ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Sonos says Google stole its speaker tech, asks for product ban in court

  Sonos has brought two lawsuits against Google for alleged copyright infringement, claiming Google used five of its patents ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 5 times regulators revealed their raging boners for crypto justice in 2019

  Financial watchdogs in the US went after cryptocurrency peddlers again and again this year. Here are some of the juicy highlights. ...

  • David Canellis

• Visual accessibility will be a priority in 2020 — here’s how to adapt your site

  Law suits are becoming more common, and US and many EU countries are more rigorously enforcing their by-laws applying to ...

  • Maya Shavin

• Craig 'Faketoshi' Wright calls judge in $10B Bitcoin case 'silly'

  Craig Wright, the man desperate to convince the world that he is Bitcoin's mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto, has insulted ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Nvidia lawyer pushes court to dismiss cryptocurrency mining chip lawsuit

  Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia is fighting to have a lawsuit dropped that alleges it misled investors over its failed ...

  • David Canellis

• Elon Musk testifies he wasn't calling the person he accused of marrying a preteen a pedophile

  “I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Riot Games resolves to pay $10M to settle gender discrimination lawsuit

  Riot Games has agreed to pay $10 million to its former and current female employees who alleged they'd been subjected to ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• OneCoin lawyer found guilty in $4B cryptocurrency scam

  The US lawyer who made $50 million after routing $400 million on behalf of the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam has been found ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• SIM-swap victim sues Bittrex over $1M Bitcoin theft, claims inside job at AT&T

  Another SIM-swap victim wants to take their case to court. This time, it's over 100 Bitcoin stolen earlier this year, worth ...

  • David Canellis

• A single cryptocurrency whale caused Bitcoin's 2017 bull run, research claims

  The same academic who, last year claimed that Bitcoin's 2017 bull run was sparked by market manipulation, is now saying that ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin isn’t money, says UK tax authority

  It’s time for Hard Fork’s wrap-up of this weekend's cryptocurrency and blockchain news that you can’t afford to miss, ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Moonday Morning: China goes crazy over blockchain

  Hello, happy Monday and welcome to another Moonday Morning – Hard Fork's roundup of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Crypto Capital boss nabbed after allegedly laundering $390M

  The head of payment processor Crypto Capital has reportedly been arrested by Polish authorities on money laundering charges. ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Class action lawsuit alleges Bitfinex' Tether cost crypto market $1.4T

  A brand new lawsuit alleges that cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and its sister company Tether manipulated the digital currency ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Supreme Court rejects Amazon's appeal against labor lawsuit

  The US Supreme Court today officially declined an appeal from Amazon that would've protected the company from facing a Nevada ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Ripple Labs wants the US to forget it's being sued for selling Ripple (XRP) illegally

  Ripple Labs has filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit that claims it's been illegally selling its Ripple (XRP) ...

  • David Canellis

• Satoshi Nakamoto 'wannabe' Craig Wright in talks to settle multi-billion dollar Bitcoin suit

  Craig Steven Wright, the man who’s claimed to be Bitcoin’s anonymous creator countless times, is down to his last hope ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Twitter's refusal to dox a cow stymies Republican's $250M lawsuit

  US Rep. Devin Nunes can't seem to catch a break. First, despite his memo blaming Obama and the FBI for all the evils in the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Cryptography startup sues Black Hat conference after getting booed and heckled

  A cryptography startup is taking things up a notch and is suing organizers of security conference Black Hat USA after being ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Robert De Niro’s firm sues employee for $6M for binging 55 eps of Friends at work

  We need a new category for this sort of Netflix activity: Robert De Niro's company sues an ex employee for binging 55 episodes ...

  • Mix