Texas announces a multi-state antitrust suit against Google

Posted on 16/12/2020 by Engadget

Texas has kicked off the latest in a slew of legal actions against major tech companies. The state's attorney general, Ken Paxton, said Texas is filing a "multi-state lawsuit against Google for anti-competitive conduct, exclusionary practices and dec...

Jailbreak app store Cydia files its own antitrust lawsuit against Apple

Posted on 11/12/2020 by Engadget

Cydia, the original app store for jailbroken iPhones, has joined a wave of companies and regulators in targeting Apple over antitrust concerns. In a lawsuit it filed on Thursday, it accused Apple of "anti-competitive acquisition and maintenance of an...

Appeals court backs ruling that Uber, Lyft should treat drivers as employees

Posted on 23/10/2020 by Engadget

Uber and Lyft lost in court in Thursday, as the First Appellate District court in San Francisco affirmed a preliminary injunction placed against the companies last month. That ruling said there’s “overwhelming likelihood” the two companies are miscla...

Microsoft extends Xbox Elite Controller warranty amid hardware problems

Posted on 15/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

You might want to talk to Microsoft if you’ve had to get repairs for the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 in recent months. Microsoft has extended the warranty for its current Xbox Elite Wireless Controller (via Windows Central) from 90 days a...

Apple sues recycler for allegedly reselling 100,000 iPhones, iPads and Watches

Posted on 05/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Apple has filed a lawsuit against its former contractor GEEP Canada for allegedly reselling over 100,000 iPhones, iPads and Watches that were supposed to be disassembled and recycled. “At least 11,766 pounds of Apple devices left GEEP’s premises with...

Nintendo agrees to $2 million settlement in Switch hacking lawsuit

Posted on 01/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Nintendo has agreed to a $2 million settlement in its intellectual property lawsuit against a site called UberChips, according to court documents obtained by Torrent Freak. Nintendo had filed a lawsuit against UberChips earlier this year in an Ohio c...

US court agrees with SEC that Kik’s $100 million coin offering violated the law

Posted on 01/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

A US district judge for the Southern District of New York has agreed with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s assessment that Kik’s $100 million initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017 was a securities sale. Judge Alvin Hellerstein has granted SEC’s...

Sonos sues Google for infringing on five more speaker patents

Posted on 29/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Just one day before Google's Pixel 5 reveal, Sonos has filed a new lawsuit against the search giant, alleging it has infringed five more patents. The patents cover technologies that form the basis of some of Sonos' best-known features, including its...

Twitter will keep fighting to share government data requests

Posted on 24/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter’s years-long battle over government surveillance and transparency isn’t over yet. In 2014, Twitter sued the US government. The platform was hoping to publish the exact number of national security letters (NSLs) or FISA court orders it receive...

Epic rejects Apple claims that ‘Fortnite’ on iOS was dying

Posted on 19/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Epic is hitting back at Apple’s claims that the developer’s lawsuit was just an attempt to revitalize sagging interest in Fortnite on iOS. In a newly-filed reply to Apple in a preliminary injunction request to keep Fortnite in the app store, Epic rej...

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