The Major League’s cheating scandal wounded fans across the country, but a baseball-loving federal judge ruled Friday that it did not give daily fantasy bettors a basis to sue for fraud.
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Pornography will have to come with a warning label in Utah after Gov. Gary Herbert allowed the measure to become law over protest from the adult-entertainment industry.
Read moreAlaska sued Juan Lyle Aune dba Spazzylabs in superior court, claiming he bought thousands of respirators from Alaska retail stores and resold them on Amazon and eBay “at outrageous, unconscionable and unfair prices.”
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Offering a sobering update to families desperate for normalcy, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday said schools won’t reopen this school year but will attempt to conduct classes for over 6 million students entirely online.
Read moreRussianhotline.com, which specializes in selling tickets to Russian Americans, sued PayPal in Douglas County Court, Nebraska, claiming it refuses to release more than $150,000 in a reserve account so plaintiff can issue refunds, which already has damaged its business and reputation
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Domain registrar NameCheap is banning new website applications that include terms like “coronavirus,” “covid” and “vaccine” from being automatically registered in an effort to prevent fraud related to the ongoing pandemic.
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The FBI on Tuesday shut down a Russian-based cyber platform which had more than $17 million in sales for criminal products and services – the largest centralized platform for purchasing compromised social media and financial accounts – following the arrest of its administrator, a hacker who stole customers’ personal information from U.S.-based companies.
Read moreA scam website asking people for their credit card numbers by claiming it can sell free World Health Organization coronavirus vaccine kits for $4.95 in shipping was taken down after the federal government filed a lawsuit to shutter it.
Read moreA federal antitrust complaint claims Amazon.com’s pricing policy for third-party sellers is anticompetitive in that it prevents sellers from reducing their prices on other websites.
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Russia could lift an unpopular ban on alcohol sales online, a top official said Wednesday, as the public are being encouraged to stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Schools across the United States are canceling trips abroad, preparing online lessons and even rethinking “perfect attendance” awards as they brace for the possibility that the new coronavirus could spread into their communities.
Read moreThe founders of fantasy sports company FanDuel claim in a suit filed in New York state court Wednesday that its board of directors and private equity firms undervalued the company ahead of merger and intentionally deprived employees and investors of their common shares without compensation.
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Canada’s privacy watchdog on Friday announced an investigation into a US software startup reportedly capable of matching images of unknown faces to photos it mined from millions of websites and social media networks.
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Southern California prosecutors said Thursday that Time Warner Cable will pay $18.8 million to settle claims it provided slow internet service to over 170,000 customers who paid for faster internet speed.
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Online political polls have surged in recent years as an alternative to traditional telephone surveys, but the Pew Research Center said Tuesday that a small but measurable percentage of online survey respondents provide bogus answers.
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It was a challenging day for Google as a judge on the EU’s second-highest court had terse words for the Silicon Valley giant about its anticompetitive behavior.
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Search engine juggernaut Google faced off against the European Union on Wednesday over a $2.6 billion fine for squashing its shopping services competition.
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A judge has barred from trial evidence that a man charged with killing a high school girl in Cedar Rapids more than 40 years ago had searched the internet in the past few years for stories about assault, rape and murder.
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More than 100 child protection organizations on Thursday urged Facebook to halt plans for strong encryption of all its platforms, saying that would allow predators to operate freely.
Read moreTexas A&M University reached a settlement with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Monday, agreeing to remove filters from its Facebook page that PETA claimed violated its right to speak out against the school’s research on dogs.
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