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- World
H-1B visas: Lawsuit seeks to stop Trump’s USD 100,000 fee
Seattle: In what appears to be the first major challenge to the new USD 100,000 fee required for H-1B visa applications, a coalition of health care providers, religious groups, university professors and…
- Technology
Google’s YouTube settles Trump lawsuit for USD 24.5 million
San Francisco: Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay USD 24.5 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over his 2021 account suspension following the January 6, 2021 attack on the…
- World
Several of Trump’s immigration policies have faced lawsuits, court rulings
Washington: President Donald Trump has promised to remove millions of people from the United States in the largest deportation programme in American history. But his immigration agenda is facing various tests in…
- World
Judge refuses to toss states’ lawsuit against Elon Musk, DOGE
Washington: A federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit that accuses billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency of illegally accessing government data systems, cancelling government contracts and…
- World
US SEC files lawsuit against Musk ahead of Trump inauguration
Washington: Just days ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th US President, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against his best ally Elon Musk over an alleged…
- Technology
Google to face lawsuit over Chrome’s data collection: US court
San Francisco: Tech giant Google will face a class-action lawsuit in the US over alleged data collection via Chrome browser without users’ consent, a court here has ruled. A federal appeals court…
- Technology
Musk sues OpenAI and its CEO over agreement breach around AI
San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday, March 1 sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging they breached their original contractual agreements around AI. The lawsuit, filed in…
- Technology
Apple wins Apple Watch antitrust lawsuit with AliveCor
San Francisco: Apple has won its ongoing legal battle with the US-based medical device company AliveCor over the Apple Watch’s heart monitoring technology. AliveCor had accused Apple of limiting third-party access to…
- Business
eBay agrees to pay $59 mn to settle lawsuit related to sales of pill-making tools
San Francisco: E-commerce platform eBay has agreed to pay $59 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that it assisted in the sale of pill press machines that can be used to manufacture…
- Middle East
Karim Benzema files defamation suit against France minister
Karim Benzema, the French footballer who currently plays for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad, has filed a defamation lawsuit against France’s minister of the interior Gerald Darmanin. This comes in response after Darmanin…
- Technology
Meta accused of illegally collecting kids’ data on Instagram: Report
San Francisco: A newly unsealed court document from an ongoing federal lawsuit against Meta (formerly Facebook) alleged that the tech giant knowingly refused to shut down the majority of Instagram accounts of…
- Technology
Video call screensharing error gets Nvidia sued over ‘stolen trade secrets’
San Francisco: Automotive technology company Valeo has sued graphics chip giant Nvidia after a video call screen-sharing between the two companies showed ‘stolen’ data from Valeo, accusing Nvidia of having saved hundreds…
- Technology
Uber, Lyft to pay USD 328 million to drivers in wage-theft settlement
New York: In a significant development, Uber and Lyft on Thursday agreed to pay a combined $328 million to settle charges that the ride-hailing platforms “unlawfully withheld wages from drivers”, and failed…
- Technology
Google ordered to pay $1.1 mn to female executive over gender discrimination
San Francisco: Google will have to pay $1.1 million to a company executive who filed a complaint against the tech giant for gender-based discrimination, a jury in the US has ruled. The…
- Business
Apple faces lawsuit over ‘Tetris’ movie by Gizmodo editor
San Francisco: Daniel Ackerman, editor-in-chief of tech news site Gizmodo, has sued Apple and other parties over the 2023 Apple TV+ film ‘Tetris’, claiming that the movie unlawfully lifted content from his…
