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AliveCor antitrust lawsuit claims Apple monopolizes Apple Watch heart-rate technology
A small Silicon Valley company, AliveCor, has filed an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of cornering the market for heart-rate monitoring…
Steve Wozniak faces lawsuit alleging ‘Woz U’ copyright infringement
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has been sued over the theft of a business idea from a Connecticut business professor named Ralph Reilly…
Apple looks to be prevailing in Epic Games ‘antitrust’ trial
Apple looks to be prevailing in an “antitrust” trial vs. Epic Games over Apple’s App Store agreements and fees…
Apple faces U.K. class action lawsuit claiming overcharges on App Store
Apple is facing a U.K. class action lawsuit over claims that the company overcharged nearly 20 million U.K. customers for App Store …
Qualcomm accuses EU of pro-Apple ‘bias’ in $1.2 billion court fight
Qualcomm accused European Union investigators of being “biased” towards Apple when they ordered a 997 million-euro (US$1.2 billion) antitrust…
Apple faces lawsuit over its iTunes ‘Buy’ button
Apple is facing a putative class action lawsuit over the way consumers can “buy” or “rent” movies, TV shows, etc. in the iTunes Store…
Judge tosses $506.2 million patent damages award against Apple
A U.S. federal judge threw out a $506.2 million patent damages award against Apple after ruling the company should have been able to…
Apple to pay $3.4 million over iPhone throttling in Chile
In the first such settlement in Latin America, Apple has agreed to pay Chilean consumers $3.4 million in a lawsuit over iPhone throttling …
U.S. FTC calls Facebook an illegal ‘personal social networking’ monopoly
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday fired back at Facebook’s attempt to dismiss the regulator’s lawsuit seeking to break…
Apple to argue it faces abundant competition in video game market in Epic Games lawsuit
In a court filing in the Epic Games lawsuit on Thursday, Apple said it plans to argue that it faces abundant competition in the market for…
U.S. Supreme Court sides with Google in Android copyright dispute with Oracle
The U.S. Supreme Court handed Alphabet Inc.’s Google a big victory on Monday, ruling that its line-for-line use of Oracle’s software code…
Fake app approved by Apple’s App Store stole man’s life savings in bitcoin
Apple bills its App Store as “the world’s most trusted marketplace for apps,” where every submission is scanned and reviewed, ensuring…
H&M erased from Apple Maps and other apps in China
As of Thursday, H&M had been wiped off Apple Maps in China and also removed from China’s leading e-commerce, ride-hailing, daily-deals…
Apple faces South Asian gender discrimination lawsuit
Apple lost an early round in a gender discrimination lawsuit brought in a California state court by a female engineer from India who claims…
Judge certifies class action lawsuit against Apple over butterfly keyboard
A U.S. judge has certified a class action suit against Apple over the company’s butterfly keyboard design. The suit covers anyone who…
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, other executives to testify in Fortnite trial
Apple CEO Tim Cook and exec. Craig Federighi are among top executives likely to testify in its trial vs. Epic Games, maker of Fortnite …
Lawyers in Apple ‘iPhone throttling’ class action settlement land $81 million in fees
The $87.7 million by class counsel Cotchett and Kaplan Fox in a $310 million class action settlement over “iPhone throttling” with Apple…
Australian man sues Apple after iPhone explodes in pocket
A Melbourne man is suing Apple after he claims he suffered second-degree burns when his iPhone battery exploded in his pocket…
Judge paves way for damages trial in lawsuit over Apple bag checks
The judge said he was prepared to rule in favor of a class of 12,000 California Apple Store staffers for time spent during Apple bag checks…
Parler drops case against Amazon for pushing it offline
Parler, the social media app that was rapidly growing in popularity in January, has dropped its case against Amazon Web Services…
Intel ordered to pay $2.18 billion to VLSI for patent infringement
Intel Corp. has been ordered to pay $2.18 billion to VLSI Technology after losing a patent-infringement trial over technology related to chip…
Apple hit with another lawsuit over alleged iPhone ‘planned obsolescence’
In another episode of the unending “Batterygate” saga, Apple is facing a new lawsui over “planned obsolescence” with the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S…
U.K. iPhone users could be due $677 million from Qualcomm
The UK’s Which? consumer watchdog is currently suing Qualcomm alleging that the compant illegally inflated 4G modem prices, which…
Judge rejects lawsuit accusing Apple’s Siri of eavesdropping
Apple won a judge’s ruling that thre out a consumer lawsuit alleging that its voice-activated Siri personal assistant recorded conversations…
Court evidence shows FBI accessed Signal texts on locked iPhone
Court documents obtained by Forbes indicate the FBI has a way of accessing Signal texts even if they’re behind the lockscreen of an iPhone …
Apple hit with patent infringement lawsuit over Face ID, other iPhone camera features
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that many of its iPhone camera features, including Face ID, infringe on a series of patents owned…
Apple settles South Korea antitrust case with $90 million investment
Apple’s lengthy antitrust dispute in South Korea seemed to settle as the nation’s watchdog accepted the Cupertino Colossus’ plan to spend…
Judge orders Tim Cook to sit for 7-hour deposition in Epic Games’ antitrust case
A judge has determined that Apple CEO Tim Cook should sit for a seven-hour deposition in the upcoming Epic Games antitrust case.
Consumer association sues Apple in Italy claiming planned iPhone obsolescence
Euroconsumers today announced it has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple in Italy, claiming planned iPhone obsolescence …
Judge won’t force Amazon to restore web service to Parler
Amazon won’t be forced to restore web service to Parler after a federal judge ruled Thursday against a plea to reinstate the fast-growing…
Lawsuit accuses Apple of denying COVID app to secure contact tracing monopoly
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that it rejected a coronavirus contact tracing app to maintain a monopoly in COVID-19 exposure…
Samsung chief sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for bribery
The court handed a prison sentence of two-and-a-half years to Samsung’s Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong in a rehearing of a major bribery case…
U.S. judge denies Apple bid to overturn VirnetX patent verdict, could owe over $1.1 billion
A federal judge denied Apples bid to overturn or reduce a $502.8 million patent infringement verdict favoring VirnetX Holding Corp…
Parler urges U.S. judge to order Amazon to restore its platform
Parler urged a U.S. judge on Thursday to order Amazon.com Inc to restore the company’s account, saying Amazon had no evidence…
Epic Games extends ‘Fortnite’ dispute with Apple, Google to the U.K.
Epic Games on Thursday widened its dispute with Apple over access to its “Fortnite” video game as it complained to the U.K.’s antitrust…
Apple loses copyright lawsuit against Corellium
A U.S. federal judge Tuesday dismissed Apple’s copyright infringement lawsuit against cybersecurity startup Corellium …
Facebook sued by FTC, 48 U.S. attorneys general alleging it operates an illegal monopoly
48 U.S. attorneys general allege Facebook is violating antitrust law by buying up competitors in order to operate an illegal monopoly …
Apple sued in EU for $217 million over ‘iPhone throttling’
Apple is facing lawsuits in several EU countries seeking about 180 million euros ($217 million) over throttling older iPhones with batteries…
Apple, other techs wary of full disclosure of secrets in Google antitrust case
Apple said confidential material they provided for the U.S. antitrust probe of Google should not be shared because secrets they include…
Apple agrees to pay $113 million in ‘iPhone throttling’ settlement
Arizona AG Mark Brnovich announced a $113 million multi-state settlement with Apple regarding Apple’s 2016 “iPhone throttling” decision…
Judge throws out Apple’s theft claim against Fortnite-maker Epic Games
On Tuesday, Epic Games won the dismissal of two Apple’s tort claims in a dispute over access to its video game “Fortnite” on Apple’s App Store …
