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Apple sues ex-employee for leaking secret projects to journalists for over 5 years: All details
30Mar By adminNo Comments
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Apple sues ex-employee for leaking secret projects to journalists for over 5 years: All details

[ad_1] In an interesting turn of events, Apple has filed a lawsuit alleging a leak of classified information about projects including the recently launched Journal app. This development comes just days after the iPhone maker got hit with a lawsuit by the US Department of Justice for allegedly creating a walled garden with its devices and ecosystem. This time, Apple has alleged that Andrew Aude, a former iOS software developer, leaked details about its classified projects. Consequently, Apple seeks damages of over $25000 in addition to a jury trial.Also Read: When will Apple launch a foldable iPhone? Apple lawsuit explainedAs per the lawsuit filed in the California state court (via MacRumors), Aude not only breached Apple's confidentiality agreement but also violated labour laws. Aude jo...
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Apple lawsuit: Built by Steve Jobs, Apple is like Hotel California, you can check out but you can never leave
22Mar By adminNo Comments
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Apple lawsuit: Built by Steve Jobs, Apple is like Hotel California, you can check out but you can never leave

[ad_1] Call it a "walled garden" or an ecosystem, but at the heart of Thursday's blockbuster US lawsuit against Apple are the many ways the company gets customers to remain faithful to its products.- Apple versus PCs -Very early on in its nearly half-century history, Apple made a decision that its products were to stand out alone and shouldn't be combined with products from other companies. With fans touting its better design and easier interface, Apple computers often drew the vitriol of PC users who equated its products as a technological straitjacket, denying users flexibility to add software and features as they saw fit. This ethos never left Apple and very much informs the accusations brought against Apple: the company built by Steve Jobs is like the Hotel California, you can check...
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Apple Must Face Suit Claiming AirTags Are Weapon of Stalkers; Judge Does Say “Apple may ultimately be right
16Mar By adminNo Comments
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Apple Must Face Suit Claiming AirTags Are Weapon of Stalkers; Judge Does Say “Apple may ultimately be right

[ad_1] Apple Inc. lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its AirTag devices help stalkers track their victims. US District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled Friday that three plaintiffs in the class-action suit had made sufficient claims for negligence and product liability, though he dismissed the others. About three dozen women and men who filed the suit alleged that Apple was warned of the risks posed by its AirTags and argued the company could be legally blamed under California law when the tracking devices are used for misconduct. In the three claims that survived, the plaintiffs “allege that, when they were stalked, the problems with the AirTag's safety features were substantial, and that those safety defects caused their injuries,” Chhabria wrote.  Apple had argu...
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Apple to settle trade secrets lawsuit against chip startup Rivos
11Feb By adminNo Comments
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Apple to settle trade secrets lawsuit against chip startup Rivos

[ad_1] Apple plans to settle a lawsuit that accused chip startup Rivos of stealing its trade secrets related to computer-chip technology, according to a joint court filing on Friday in California federal court. The companies told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that they had "signed an agreement that potentially settles the case," and that the agreement allows Apple to examine Rivos' systems and recover any confidential information.Representatives for Apple and Rivos did not immediately respond to requests for comment and more information about the settlement. Apple sued "stealth" startup Rivos in 2022. It said Mountain View, California-based Rivos had hired away dozens of its engineers and used its confidential information to develop competing "system-on...
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Apple defeats lawsuit claiming it overpaid CEO Tim Cook, others
8Feb By adminNo Comments
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Apple defeats lawsuit claiming it overpaid CEO Tim Cook, others

[ad_1] A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Apple of overpaying Chief Executive Tim Cook and other top executives by tens of millions of dollars by miscalculating the value of performance-based stock awards.U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon in Manhattan said the iPhone maker described its pay methods in detailed compensation tables in its 2023 proxy statement, "precisely" as securities laws and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require. Rochon also found no proof that Apple's board of directors acted improperly in awarding pay, and said the plaintiff, a pension fund affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, did not give the board enough time to consider its objections before suing. Lawyers for the pension fund did not immediately resp...
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Google’s Epic Legal Defeat Threatens $200 Billion App Store Industry
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Google’s Epic Legal Defeat Threatens $200 Billion App Store Industry

[ad_1] Google's legal defeat at the hands of Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple Inc. that generates close to $200 billion a year and dictates how billions of consumers use mobile devices. The loss — handed down by a San Francisco jury on Monday — is a blow to the two companies' business model in apps, where they charge commissions of as much as 30% to software developers who typically have few other options. Epic has spent years railing against the practice and got a federal jury to agree that Alphabet Inc.'s Google unit had acted unfairly as a monopoly. The case is likely to accelerate the weakening of app store rules, which have already come under fire from regulators and lawmakers around the world.  “The dominoes are going to start fallin...
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Blast from the past! iPhone throttling case could cost Apple $2 bn
2Nov By adminNo Comments
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Blast from the past! iPhone throttling case could cost Apple $2 bn

[ad_1] Apple has been accused of slowing down users' iPhones and it now faces a lawsuit which is worth nearly $2 billion. However, Apple denies that it has done anything to shorten the life span of their iPhones. Recently, it was reported that the judge has agreed to proceed with the case. However, they demand more clarity from the accusing side. Know all about the iPhone case here and what would be the next step for Apple.Apple iPhone throttling caseAccording to a report by Reuters, British consumer champion Justin Gutman filed a lawsuit against Apple with over 24 million iPhone users in the United Kingdom. iPhone users accused Apple of throttling the iPhone's battery and performance. The lawyers claim that Apple rolled out a software update to various iPhone models and affected their ...
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Dutch regulator disputes Apple’s commissions in dating app case
1Nov By adminNo Comments
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Dutch regulator disputes Apple’s commissions in dating app case

[ad_1] The Dutch consumer watchdog is challenging the fees that Apple charges dating app providers in the Netherlands as part of its long-running case against the U.S. technology company over the dominance of its app store, according to a filing seen by Reuters.Bloomberg News reported on the filing earlier on Tuesday. Although the case is limited to dating apps in the Netherlands, it is seen as having the potential to set a precedent for other markets. The Netherlands' Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) in 2021 fined the company 50 million euros ($53 million) for failure to comply with changes it had ordered to Apple's app store to end practices it said violated European Union antitrust laws.Apple denied wrongdoing and appealed the fines in a case still before a Rotterdam Court. ...
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Meta, Google to Microsoft, tech titans face child exploitation lawsuits
25Oct By adminNo Comments
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Meta, Google to Microsoft, tech titans face child exploitation lawsuits

[ad_1] On Tuesday, Meta was served a lawsuit by more than 30 US states, including 8 individual lawsuits from states, over the alleged use of features in Instagram and Facebook to lure children to the platform and get them hooked on harmful content. This fresh case has again opened the longstanding issue of companies exploiting children, one of the most vulnerable demographics of any digital user base in order to gain profit. However, Meta is not the only one to blame here. For years, many tech firms including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others have faced similar lawsuits for failing to protect underage users.Protecting children online: The PremiseSo, if you have come across numerous news articles about Meta's lawsuit, you might be curious to know why is there a need to protect childre...
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Epic Games asks US Supreme Court let App Store order take effect
1Aug By adminNo Comments
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Epic Games asks US Supreme Court let App Store order take effect

[ad_1] Epic Games on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a lower court ruling to take effect against Apple Inc that could force the iPhone maker to change payment practices in its App Store.Epic, maker of the popular video game "Fortnite," filed a request asking the nation's highest court to lift a July 17 decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to pause its ruling that upheld an injunction against Apple. The decision gave Apple 90 days to pursue an appeal at the Supreme Court. In the closely-watched case, Epic filed its antitrust lawsuit in 2020 challenging Apple's App Store practices. The 9th Circuit in April upheld a federal judge's 2021 order that could require Apple to allow developers to provide links and buttons that direct consumers to pa...
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