This Startup Aims to Make Divorce a Simpler, Web-Based Process
'Wevorce is changing divorce for good,' founder claims.
View ArticleUber Agrees to Cough Up $10 Million to Settle California Suit on Misleading...
'It sends a clear message to all businesses, and to startups in particular, that in the quest to quickly obtain market share laws designed to protect consumers cannot be ignored,' San Francisco DA says.
View ArticlePhilip Morris Wins Missouri Class Action Trial Over 'Light' Cigarettes
The plaintiffs were seeking an estimated $1.8 billion.
View ArticleMicrosoft Sues U.S. Government Over Data Requests
The lawsuit argues that the government is violating the U.S. Constitution by preventing Microsoft from notifying thousands of customers about government requests for their emails and other documents.
View ArticleReport: Apple Settles Siri Suit for $25 Million
The lawsuit says Siri was developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
View ArticleUber Settles Lawsuit for $100 Million, and Drivers Will Remain Independent
The lawsuit had claimed that Uber drivers are employees and thus entitled to reimbursement of expenses.
View ArticleErin Andrews Reportedly Reaches Settlement With Nashville Marriott Owner
Terms of the agreement are confidential and the matter is now over.
View ArticleAmazon Found Liable for Charges Incurred by Kids Using Apps
The FTC had sued Amazon in 2014, alleging that the company failed to make proper disclosures to parents regarding purchases made by their children.
View ArticleFacebook Hit With Lawsuit Over Plan to Issue New Stock
The lawsuit says that Zuckerberg 'wishes to retain this power, while selling off large amounts of his stockholdings, and reaping billions of dollars in proceeds.'
View ArticleJohnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $55 Million in Talc-Powder Trial
The company had lost a previous trial and faces approximately 1,200 lawsuits accusing it of not adequately warning consumers about its talc-based products' cancer risks.
View Article4 Potential Lawsuits to Watch Out for in Small Business
Avoiding lawsuits isn't as thrilling as winning litigation but it's far less expensive.
View ArticleGroupon Sues 'Once-Great' IBM Over Patent
The latest lawsuit concerns IBM's WebSphere Commerce platform, which Groupon said lets merchants send messages to customers with GPS-enabled devices based on their real-time locations, and their use of...
View ArticleGoogle, Oracle Compete for Innovation Label in Android Retrial
Oracle claims Google's Android smartphone operating system violated its copyright on parts of the Java programming language, while Alphabet Inc.'s Google says it should be able to use Java without...
View ArticleWal-Mart Sues Visa for Resisting Use of PIN-Based Transactions
Banks and payment network operators are favoring the use of chip cards verified by signatures
View ArticleLyft Agrees to Revised $27 Million Deal in Driver Lawsuit
In the new deal, attorneys for drivers calculated that Lyft drivers could have recovered $156 million had they been classified as employees.
View ArticleLarry Page Spars With Oracle Attorney at Android Trial
In a retrial at San Francisco federal court, Oracle Corp. has claimed Google's Android smartphone operating system violated its copyright on parts of Java, a development platform. Alphabet Inc.'s...
View ArticleBillionaire Peter Thiel Reportedly Backed Hulk Hogan's Gawker Lawsuit
Hogan in March won a $140 million jury verdict against Gawker in a privacy lawsuit stemming from a sex tape the site had published.
View ArticlePeter Thiel on Gawker: 'If I Didn't Do Something, Nobody Would'
The billionaire Silicon Valley investor acknowledged that he secretly financed Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media in an effort to put the news website out of business.
View ArticleGoogle Beats Oracle in $9 Billion Android Trial
A U.S. jury handed Google a major victory on Thursday in a long-running copyright battle with Oracle over Android software used to run most of the world's smartphones.
View ArticleWhiskey War: This High-Flying Entrepreneur Is Now Facing the Fight of His Life
WhistlePig founder Raj Peter Bhakta may lose his whiskey farm to the very investors that helped it grow.
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