Epic Games Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple
Epic Games said Wednesday it filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with European Union regulators, opening a new front in its war with the tech giant over app store payments.
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Apple to Crack Down on Tracking iPhone Users in Early Spring
Apple plans to roll out a new privacy control in the early spring to prevent iPhone apps from secretly shadowing people. That puts the feature on course to come out after a more than six-month delay aimed at placating Facebook and other digital services that depend on such data surveillance to help sell ads.
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A putative class of Apple product purchasers have standing to pursue their complaint against the company alleging it did not warn them that their devices could be vulnerable to hacking,” the Ninth Circuit ruled. The plaintiffs claim the “patches Apple applies to address the vulnerabilities degraded the devices’ performance.”
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Judge Rejects Apple Copyright Claims Against Cybersecurity Firm
A lawsuit filed by Apple against the producer of a virtual iPhone product hung on by a thread Tuesday, as a federal judge ruled against the smartphone giant on all but one count.
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EU Takes on Big Tech Again, This Time With Tough Laws
Under new proposed European Union rules, tech giants like Facebook and Google could face massive fines if they repeatedly fail to take down content deemed dangerous and break fair competition practices.
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Apple to Pay $113 Million to Settle Investigation Over Slowed IPhone Batteries
California-based Apple settled an investigation by nearly three dozen states Wednesday, agreeing to pay $113 million in a global settlement to rectify its practice of slowing down older model iPhones to preserve the devices’ aging batteries.
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A federal court in California ruled that some misrepresentation claims against Apple can proceed in a proposed class action dispute alleging the company misled consumers about the capabilities of the iPhone XR. The plaintiffs claim Apple did not disclose the difference in antenna types between the iPhone XR and the iPhone XS and XS Max.
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Privacy Activists in EU File Complaints Over IPhone Tracking
European privacy activists have filed complaints against Apple over its use of software to track the behavior of iPhone users.
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A federal court in Illinois ruled that a class of consumers can pursue its claim that Apple violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act by collecting scans of facial geometry and other information without informed consent.
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Judge Tosses Apple Counterclaims Against Fortnite Maker
A federal judge late Tuesday dismissed two counterclaims by Apple against Fortnite maker Epic Games, in the popular online game maker’s antitrust lawsuit challenging Apple’s practice of taking a 30% cut on all in-app purchases.
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Apple Dodges IPhone Radiation Class Action Suit
A federal judge Thursday nixed a class action claiming Apple failed to warn consumers about dangerous radiation from iPhones, finding it has twice demonstrated that its smartphones comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s radiation exposure limits.
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Ninth Circuit Revives Labor Suit Over Apple Employee Bag Checks
Apple must face claims that it stiffed thousands of California retail employees for time spent undergoing security bag checks, but the tech giant will get a second chance to argue that the time it takes to search bags is too trivial to matter.
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Judge Refuses to Reinstate Fortnite Game on Apple Devices
Calling its decision to breach an allegedly anticompetitive contract with Apple a “self-inflicted wound,” a federal judge on Friday refused to reinstate Epic Games’ popular Fortnite game on the app store for millions of Apple device users.
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EU Commission Appeals After Losing Apple $15B Tax Case
The European Commission said Friday it is appealing a court decision that Apple doesn’t have to repay $15 billion in back taxes to Ireland.
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In a wage-and-hour class action, the Ninth Circuit reversed a ruling in favor of Apple after the California Supreme Court concluded that time spent on an employer’s premises undergoing security searches is compensable as “hours worked.”
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Judge Says Epic Games Can’t Force Apple to Reinstate ‘Fortnite’ to App Store
Epic Games cannot force Apple to reinstate its popular Fortnite game on the Apple app store because it chose to breach a contract instead of maintaining the status quo while its antitrust suit against the tech giant moves forward, a federal judge said Monday.
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Maker of Fortnite Sues Apple for Using App Store as a Monopoly
Epic Games, the maker of the popular video game Fortnite, filed a lawsuit against Apple in federal court on Thursday after the tech giant kicked the video game off its iPhone app due to an ongoing dispute over commissions.
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Apple Must Pay Over $506 Million in 4G LTE Patent Dispute
A federal jury in East Texas Tuesday ordered Apple to pay over $506 million for infringing on 4G LTE patents controlled by intellectual property owner PanOptis in the country’s first patent jury trial since the Covid-19 shutdown in March.
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Tech Leaders Testify to House Lawmakers Over Their Companies’ Reach
In the sixth iteration of congressional oversight hearings and investigation into big tech companies and their threat to competition, a House Judiciary subcommittee grilled the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — the first time they had testified before lawmakers simultaneously.
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