classaction

A U.S. judge in California on Monday allowed litigation against Alphabet Inc's Google. A U.S. judge in California on Monday allowed litigation against Alphabet Inc's Google to proceed as a consumer class action of 21 million individuals who accuse the company of violating U.S. anti-competition laws in how it runs its Google Play app store. U.S. District Judge James Donato said in a 27-page order that the plaintiffs had established the legal elements of "commonality" and other factors to form a class action that…

Twitter Inc. plans to start cutting staff Friday, the company said in an email to employees. Twitter Inc. plans to start cutting staff Friday, the company said in an email to employees.Billionaire Elon Musk plans to eliminate half of Twitter's workforce, making good on plans to slash costs at the social media platform he acquired for $44 billion last month, people with knowledge of the matter have said. “In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global…

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays | Associated Press NEW YORK — A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star’s career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were relatively unknown actors in Broadway plays in 1980s. The verdict in the civil trial came with lightning speed. Jurors at a federal court in New York deliberated for a little more than an hour before deciding that Rapp hadn’t proven his allegations. When the verdict was read, Spacey…

Elon Musk-run Tesla has been hit by a class-action lawsuit in the US over a phantom braking problem that the lawsuit alleged turned “a safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare”. The lawsuit, filed by Tesla owner Jose Alvarez Toledo in federal court in the Northern District of California seeking punitive damages, claimed there are “hundreds of thousands” of customers that could seek to join his class action suit against the company, reports The Verge. The lawsuit accused the electric car-maker of…

San Francisco: Elon Musk-run Tesla has been hit by a class-action lawsuit in the US over a phantom braking problem that the lawsuit alleged turned "a safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare".The lawsuit, filed by Tesla owner Jose Alvarez Toledo in federal court in the Northern District of California seeking punitive damages, claimed there are "hundreds of thousands" of customers that could seek to join his class action suit against the company, reports The Verge.The lawsuit accused the electric car-maker…

Tesla is facing a new proposed class-action lawsuit over the phantom braking problem that has been plaguing Autopilot for years now. Back in November of 2021, Electrek released a report called “Tesla has a serious phantom braking problem in Autopilot.” It highlighted a significant increase in Tesla owners reporting dangerous phantom braking events on Autopilot. Phantom braking is a term used to describe when an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) – or a self-driving system – applies the brakes for no good…

US carrier T-Mobile has agreed to pay out $500 million as part of a class action lawsuit settlement for a data breach that took place in 2021. Customer data of “approximately 76.6 million U.S. residents identified by T-Mobile” was compromised as per the court filing on Friday. A report from Motherboard back in August of 2021 identified that the customer data involved in the breach included Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and driver license information of affected customers. Of the settlement amount, $350…

Google faces a London trial over an estimated GBP 920 milion (roughly Rs. 8,800 crore) damages claim after a court authorised a lawsuit that alleges the Alphabet-owned tech giant overcharged 19.5 million customers for app store purchases. The class action, which was certified by the Competition Appeal Tribunal on Monday, alleges Google abused its dominant position by charging up to 30 percent commission on popular apps on its Play Store, including Roblox, Candy Crush Saga and Tinder since October 2015.A detailed judgement…

Apple agreed to pay $50 million (roughly Rs. 400 crore) to settle a class-action lawsuit by customers who claimed it knew and concealed that the "butterfly" keyboards on its MacBook laptop computers were prone to failure. The proposed preliminary settlement was filed late Monday night in the federal court in San Jose, California, and requires a judge's approval. Customers claimed that MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro keyboards suffered from sticky and unresponsive keys, and that tiny amounts of dust or debris could…

Getty ImagesApple has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over its problematic "butterfly" mechanism keyboard. Under the terms of the settlement, Apple will pay a total of $50 million to a group of customers who purchased MacBooks with the flawed keyboards. It does not, however, have to admit to any wrongdoing -- the company denies all of the allegations in the suit and denies that any MacBooks are defective. As Reuters first reported, the settlement was filed Monday night in federal court in San Jose,…