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A case against Infosys by a former recruiter alleging that "to her shock" the tech giant discriminated against Indians, can proceed, a federal judge in New York has ordered.Judge J. Paul Oetken, hearing the case in New York, threw out late last month requests by Infosys and its executives to dismiss the case.Read AlsoThe former recruiter, Jill Prejean, said in court papers seen by IANS that at Infosys she "consistently heard from at least a dozen partners, to her shock, that they preferred not to hire additional…

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, has offered to proceed with his $44 billion Twitter takeover bid. Mr Musk confirmed the offer in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The development comes ahead of a court trial between Mr Musk and the company in Delaware’s court of chancery on 17 October. According to a letter by Skadden Arps attorney Mike Ringler in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, on Monday, Mr Musk said he would “proceed with the transaction on the original terms, pending receipt of the…

Alphabet Inc's Google must face all but one antitrust allegation about its online advertising business brought in a lawsuit by attorneys general for Texas and 16 other states or territories, a federal judge ruled. Google won its motion to dismiss an allegation that a cooperation agreement it struck with Meta Platforms' Facebook in 2018 was an unlawful restraint of trade, with U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel saying the companies had valid business reasons for the deal. Read Also Google failed to convince Castel to…

Fast News Twitter has dismissed Elon Musk's claim that he was hoodwinked into signing the $44B deal to buy the social media company, saying that it was "implausible and contrary to fact". Musk is asking a court to free him from the agreement and make Twitter pay him an amount in damages…

A California judge says video service Rumble can proceed with the early stages of an antitrust suit against Google. Rumble sued Google in 2021, alleging that it favored its own YouTube video platform in search results and the Android operating system. Google urged the court to split the suit’s arguments and dismiss substantial parts of the reasoning as well as strike parts of the suit related to Android app preinstallation. Judge Haywood Gilliam declined to do so late last week, putting the case on track to proceed —…

A Canadian judge ruled Wednesday the US extradition case against a senior Huawei executive can proceed to the next stage, a decision that is expected to further harm relations between China and Canada. The Chinese embassy in Ottawa later warned Canada to drop the case and accused the United States of trying to bring down the Chinese tech giant.Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei's founder and chief financial officer of the company, at Vancouver's airport in late 2018. The US wants her extradited to face…

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) told the Delhi High Court that WhatsApp's updated privacy policy of 2021 has not been withdrawn and its probe concerning the policy should be allowed to proceed. The CCI also said the scope of its inquiry has no overlap with the issue of an alleged infringement of user privacy pending before the Supreme Court. The submissions were made by the CCI before a bench headed by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma on appeals by WhatsApp LLC and Facebook Inc. against a single-judge order…

Shell SHEL 2.87% PLC said Monday that it is moving forward with its Jackdaw natural-gas development in the North Sea, saying the project—which has been opposed by environmental groups—could produce more than 6% of expected U.K. North Sea gas by mid-decade. The U.K. government gave Jackdaw the regulatory go-ahead in June, reversing a decision to block the project on environmental grounds. London-based Shell and U.K.…

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: A federal judge rules Cydia's antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed, rejecting Apple's claim that the allegations are outside the statute of limitations — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Thursday lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit in California federal court from competing app store Cydia … Mike Scarcella / Reuters: A federal judge rules Cydia's antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed, rejecting Apple's claim that the allegations are outside the statute of…

Less than a year after Didi Global Inc. DIDI 1.33% listed its shares in the U.S., the Chinese ride-hailing giant said its shareholders had approved its plan to delist from the New York Stock Exchange, concluding a regulatory roller-coaster ride that sent its market value plummeting. The move will allow the company to move forward after it was caught in Beijing’s campaign to tighten its grip on China’s tech giants and their troves of…