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A higher court moved to remove TikTok ban in India
Popular short-form video app TikTok received a victory today in India. An Indian state court has lifted the nationwide ban on the app. TikTok faced a nearly week-long…
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AT&T being sued for lying to investors about DirecTV Now
AT&T is facing a class action lawsuit from investors. It alleges that the company hid the failure of its DirecTV Now streaming TV service and lied to investors.…
Politics
Huawei is getting ready to sue the U.S. government
In an unsurprising move, the Chinese electronics company, Huawei, is getting ready to sue the United States government for barring federal agencies from conducting business with them, according…
Politics
FTC’s new Tech Task Force will keep an eye on tech monopolies
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is set to launch a tech task force that will monitor competition in the US tech market, per announcement from commissioners. The task…
Legal
U.S. prosecutors pushing harder in probe against Julian Assange
According to WikiLeaks, U.S. federal prosecutors are making a hard push for witnesses in domestically and aboard to have them testify against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This offers…
Breaking News
Bill Cosby has been found guilty of sexual assault
On Thursday, a Pennsylvania jury found Bill Cosby guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault. This is one of the first major criminal convictions since the start…
Google
Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case in the UK
Google has been generally reluctant to honor European Union "right to be forgotten" requests when people try to hide their past convictions, but it a new ruling, the…
Legal
Telegram is banned from Russia following court ruling
Since 2017, Russian authorities have continually threatened to ban Telegram from the country over the developers' repeated refusal to grant them access to user data. It appears now…
Legal
Uber executives could face criminal charges in France
It appears that Uber executives are in trouble because France can bring criminal charges against them for operating an illegal taxi service, the Court of Justice of the…
Business
Backpage.com officials have been indicted after FBI shutdown
We learned last week that the US government seized the classified website Backpage.com, shut it down completely, and replaced the front page with a disclaimer where it posted…
Autonomous
Uber has settled with family of pedestrian that was hit by its self-driving SUV
While Tempe Police are still investigating the fatal crash where Uber's autonomous SUV struck and killed a pedestrian, the ride-hailing company has one aspect of the case resolved.…
Facebook
Facebook is being sued for collecting call logs and text histories
Previously, news broke out that Facebook Messenger and Lite were scrapping call logs and text history from Android devices, the company said that it didn't do it in…
Facebook
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica now face their first state lawsuit
There have been several private lawsuits are already hitting both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, and now you can add a state lawsuit to that pile. Illinois' Cook County…
Legal
New lawsuit claims Uber drivers denied service to woman with cerebral palsy
The lawsuits just don't stop coming, do they? It appears that Uber is being accused of its drivers denying rides to a Texas woman with cerebral palsy on…
Business
Uber ‘likely not’ at fault in pedestrian accident, police chief says
Yesterday, we learned that Uber was halting all of its self-driving tests after one of the company's self-driving cars struck a pedestrian in Tempe, AZ, on Sunday. The…