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Apple faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging the company holds an illegal monopoly over digital storage for its customers. The suit, filed Friday claims “surgical” restraints prevent customers from effectively using any service except its iCloud storage system. iCloud is the only service that can host certain data from the company’s phones, tablets and computers, including application data and device settings. Plaintiffs allege the practice has “unlawfully ‘tied’” the devices and iCloud together.…

Once considered the hottest startup in Silicon Valley, 23andMe’s fall from grace has been swift and brutal. The genetic testing company, which was valued at $6 billion just a few years ago, is now facing both a possible delisting from Nasdaq and dozens class action lawsuits.It’s all part of the continuing fallout of the hacking of the company last year. The company has since admitted it failed to detect the data breach for more than five months, giving the bad actors the chance to steal the ancestry data of some 6.9…

Apple has reached an agreement to settle a US class action lawsuit, in which the company will be paying $35 million to iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus users, who were prone to audio issues due to a defective chip in the devices. The company has now started notifying eligible customers by email, MacRumors reported.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Senior Management ProgrammeVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB…

Subscribers to Apple Music and other services may be eligible to claim part of a $25 million settlement over the company's subscription-share program.The settlement resolves a lawsuit over Apple's Family Sharing perk, a free service that allows up to six users to access a handful of pay-per-month apps — including Apple News+, Music, TV+, Arcade and Apple Card — under one shared subscription. According to the complaint, Walter Peters v. Apple Inc., Apple ran "deceptive" advertisements for Family Sharing alongside…

A US judge on Thursday approved Apple Inc's $50 million class-action settlement resolving consumer claims over certain defective MacBook keyboards, in a ruling that spurned challenges to the deal.US District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California, federal court in his ruling called the settlement "fair, adequate and reasonable." Eleven consumers from New York, Florida, California, Michigan and several other states were the lead plaintiffs in the national class action alleging consumer protection and warranty claims.…

A California Tesla owner on Friday sued the electric carmaker in a prospective class action lawsuit accusing it of violating the privacy of customers.The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California came after Reuters reported on Thursday that groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers' car cameras between 2019 and 2022.The lawsuit, filed by Henry Yeh, a San Francisco resident who owns Tesla's…

A federal judge has ruled that shareholders suing chip maker Qualcomm Inc for allegedly hiding anticompetitive sales and licensing practices may bring their claims as a class action. The lawsuit filed in San Diego, California, alleges Qualcomm and its executives repeatedly described its businesses of selling chips and licensing its technology to other companies as separate, when in fact the company bundled them in a bid to stifle competition. The investors leading the case claim the misrepresentations artificially…

Twice Elon Musk has faced a jury over remarks he has made on Twitter. And twice a jury has vindicated him. Twice Elon Musk has faced a jury over remarks he has made on Twitter. And twice a jury has vindicated him.…