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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Apple Class Action
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.
Read moreWozniak Sues YouTube & Google
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and 17 others sued YouTube and Google in superior court, claiming they are promoting and profiting from scam videos that “falsely use images and videos of plaintiff Steve Wozniak, and other famous tech entrepreneurs, and that have defrauded YouTube users out of millions of dollars.”
Read moreApple Class Action
A federal class action against Apple claims it aids and abets, unjustly profits from and abuses elderly people in an “iTunes gift card scam,” in which “(s)cammers have found a uniform way of tricking victims into paying them large sums of money via iTunes gift cards,” from which Apple gets a 30% commission.
Read moreApple Says Jury Trial on Phone Radiation Would Undermine FCC Authority
Pushing to defeat a class action claiming Apple failed to warn consumers about dangerous radiation from iPhones, an Apple attorney told a federal judge Thursday that bringing the case to a jury will undermine the Federal Communications Commission’s authority.
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EU Court Throws Out $15 Billion Apple Tax Penalty
The European Union’s second-highest court sided with Apple in a $15 billion case on Wednesday, holding that Ireland did not give the tech giant an illegal tax break.
Read moreEuropean Union Unlimbers Antitrust Cases Against Apple
The European Union’s powerful competition authority opened a series of cases against Apple on Tuesday, in a sign that Brussels was not backing down in its efforts to rein in U.S.-based tech giants.
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Apple and Google Unveil Covid-Tracking Technology
Apple and Google rolled out new technology Wednesday that public health authorities can use to build their own contact tracing apps to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus Covid-19.
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France Whacks Apple With Record 1.1 Billion Euro Fine
France’s competition authority slapped a record $1.2 billion fine on U.S. tech giant Apple on Monday for anticompetitive behavior toward its independent retail distributors.
Read moreVerizon Class Action
A class action in Pulaski County Court, Ark., accuses Verizon Wireless of defrauding customers in a “purposefully deceptive, false, unconscionable” Mother’s Day special promising, but failing to deliver, a free iPhone in a two-for-one deal.
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Apple Says Chinese Virus Will Hurt Production
Apple is warning investors it won’t meet its second-quarter financial guidance because the viral outbreak in China has cut production of iPhones.
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Apple on Hook for Millions for Off-Clock Employee Searches
Employees at Apple retail stores should be paid for time spent having their personal bags checked by security when they want to leave the store, the California Supreme Court said Thursday.
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Caltech Prevails in $1 Billion Patent Fight With Apple, Broadcom
Tech companies Apple and Broadcom must pay over $1 billion in damages to the California Institute of Technology after a federal jury found the companies infringed the school’s wireless data transmission patents.
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Francesca Gregorini sued Apple, M. Night Shyamalan, et al. in federal court, claiming the Apple TV+ series “Servant” is a wholesale ripoff of her 2013 feature film, “The Truth About Emanuel.”
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