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A Chinese court has frozen Nexperia’s stakes in four of its own subsidiaries

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A court in Dongguan has frozen Nexperia’s shareholdings in four of its Chinese subsidiaries, worth about 2.14 billion yuan, with the order remaining in place until August 2029. The order took effect in the last week of August, Reuters reported. The assets include Nexperia’s stakes in semiconductor operations in Wuxi and Shanghai, as well as […]

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The FTC says Amazon charged advertisers the wrong price 80% of the time

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Amazon runs a second-price auction for its search ads, a system in which the winning advertiser is supposed to pay one cent more than the next-highest bid. The Federal Trade Commission now alleges that Amazon charged advertisers their full winning bid roughly 80% of the time instead. The agency and 22 states sued Amazon on […]

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OpenAI tells the court Apple’s trade-secret case is “a mess of Apple’s own making”

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OpenAI has told a federal court that Apple created the conditions it is now describing as theft. “This dispute is a mess of Apple’s own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else,” the company said in a filing lodged late Monday in the US District Court in San Jose, according to Reuters. The […]

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Google will pay £260m to settle a UK class action over Play Store fees

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Google has agreed to pay £260m to settle a class action brought on behalf of UK app developers, ending a case that was due to go to trial next month. The deal appeared on Thursday and is worth about $353m, Reuters reported. Lawyers had previously valued the claim at just over £1bn. It sought compensation […]

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Brazil sues Discord for R$500M and wants an office in the country

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Brazil’s federal government has sued Discord for R$500M, about $97M, over what it describes as severe gaps in the platform’s age verification and user safety protections. It lands three days after Discord appealed against the data protection authority’s order suspending its livestreaming feature, arguing that only a court can suspend a service, and amid a wider […]

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Pennsylvania sued Snap using an account it opened as a 13-year-old

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Pennsylvania has sued Snap over Snapchat. The case rests on a 13-year-old account, opened on a new iPhone by an investigator in the attorney general’s office before the filing. What that account could reach is the evidence. Attorney General David Sunday filed the complaint on 25 August in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. It […]

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Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case

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Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected the personal data of children who used its platforms. Diana Novak Jones reported the figure for Reuters on […]

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A law from 1634 is why Europeans cannot sue Big Tech together

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Europe gave itself the right to bring class actions against big companies five years ago. Ireland hosts the European headquarters of most large technology firms, and campaigners there have managed exactly one. A law from 1634 explains why. Ellen O’Regan set out the problem for Politico from Dublin. Irish law bars anyone from funding a […]

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Deloitte will pay $21.5M to settle a DOJ investigation into its diversity targets

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Deloitte has agreed to pay $21.5M to settle a US Justice Department investigation into its diversity practices, without admitting liability. The firm is one of the largest technology consultancies in the world as well as an accountancy, and it sits inside the same enterprise AI and systems integration market that has drawn Indian IT firms […]

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Meta and the states are talking settlement while the jury is still sitting

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Meta and state attorneys general have held settlement discussions amid the youth social media harm trial now underway in federal court in California, according to Bloomberg. The case is the largest of its kind, with 29 states pursuing the company and four of them, California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, party to the trial that opened this […]

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