Kara Swisher in News on December 5, 2011 at 9:25 am PT
Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
Liz Gannes in Social on October 18, 2011 at 12:47 pm PT
Avid users of Slide’s SuperPoke Pets yelled, begged and left angry blog comments, but so far no law firm wants to represent them in a class action lawsuit.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 11, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
The good news for angry HuffPo bloggers who want to get paid for their unpaid work: AOL volunteers made the same argument during Bubble 1.0 and ended up winning! The bad news: It took a lawsuit, and more than a decade, to extract the cash. (And the HuffPo writers may not have a case, anyway.)
Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 6, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
A lawsuit filed Friday for alleged use of “history sniffing,” a method for surreptitiously detecting what websites a person has visited, is the latest to take aim at technologies that harvest Internet users’ personal information.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on November 2, 2010 at 1:21 pm PT
In the end Buzz, Google’s ill-starred, privacy-violating social networking service, proved more of a public relations burden than a financial one. The company on Tuesday
settled the class action suit brought against it, for its foolish decision to use Buzz to transform our private Gmail address books into public social networks, by agreeing to establish an $8.5 million fund for Internet privacy education and policy.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Emily Steel, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 20, 2010 at 8:00 am PT
Tools that track users’ whereabouts on the Web are facing increased regulatory and public scrutiny and prompting a flurry of legal challenges.
Since July, at least six suits have been filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against websites and companies that create advertising technology, accusing them of installing online-tracking tools that are so surreptitious that they essentially hack into users’ machines without their knowledge.
John Paczkowski in News on July 30, 2010 at 8:43 am PT
Intel has won a crucial victory in a lawsuit claiming that consumers were harmed by the improper discounts it allegedly used to discourage PC makers from buying chips from its rivals. Late Thursday, a court-appointed “special master” recommended that the judge presiding over the case deny it class-action status, saying essentially that if consumers were overcharged as a result of Intel’s alleged tactics, it wasn’t Intel’s fault.
John Paczkowski in News on July 1, 2010 at 5:20 am PT
And there it is, the first iPhone 4 lawsuit–not six days after the device first went on sale (and well within the two-week return period). Filed in federal court in Maryland Wednesday on behalf of a pair Maryland residents who purchased two iPhone 4s each, only to find they suffered significantly reduced reception and performance when handled the way any reasonable person would handle a cell phone, the class action accuses Apple and AT&T of knowingly selling phones with a defective antenna design.
Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2010 at 5:30 am PT
Here’s the teaser for the 200th episode of the animated comedy goldmine that has been “South Park.”
One of the most popular shows online, too, after 14 seasons, the Comedy Central television series will air the 200th episode tonight, in which all the celebrities ever mocked on it join in a class-action lawsuit.
Tom Cruise, beware!
John Paczkowski in News on February 5, 2010 at 5:05 am PT
The Department of Justice still isn’t sold on the Google Books settlement agreement. In a brief filed late Thursday, the DOJ said that significant legal problems remain despite the considerable changes Google, publishers and authors have made to it.
