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In 2022, the beauty industry made approximately $430 million in revenue. The beauty market is not just false lashes and lipsticks. It includes anything from skincare, makeup, haircare, and grooming products. And the experts project that the numbers will only keep growing.Beauty products and their popularity mirror certain trends that are happening at one or other time in history. And, well, just because things are popular, doesn't mean that absolutely everyone likes them.That's why when one Redditor asked "What's a…

Walgreens Boots Alliance has agreed to pay $360 million to insurance company Humana to settle a lawsuit alleging the retail-pharmacy chain overcharged for prescription-drug reimbursements.Walgreens disclosed the settlement in a securities filing last week. The company said it had asked a federal court to vacate a previous award in Humana’s favor for $642 million.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 WalgreensBoots Alliance has agreed to pay $360 million to…

This past Wednesday, Apple agreed to settle a lawsuit, in which the plaintiffs were accusing the tech giant of knowingly letting scammers exploit Apple's iTunes gift cards. What's more, is that Apple kept a percentage of the stolen funds as a commission, of sorts: 70% of the stolen funds would be deposited into the fraudsters accounts while Apple kept 30%. “The scam involves fraudsters who instill panic or urgency by insisting by phone that victims buy App Store and iTunes gift cards or Apple Store gift cards in order to…

Google’s Chrome has long featured the ability to launch the browser in Incognito mode, offering a seemingly blank slate for your internet browsing, away from your usual cookies, forms and web history. But that seemingly didn’t mean Google wasn’t keeping an eye on where you were browsing.The company faced a lawsuit in 2020 that accused it of tracking Chrome users' activities even when they were using Incognito mode. Google has now agreed to settle the complaint that originally sought $5 billion in damages, after failing to…

Google has reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed in 2020 over its controversial practice of tracking user activity during Chrome’s incognito mode. Google has apparently designed incognito to allow users to browse and search the internet without saving the browsing history or information entered in forms. However, many users believe that incognito mode provides complete anonymity from both their Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the websites they visit. The lawsuit sought damages exceeding $5 billion, arguing that…

In 2020, Google was hit with a lawsuit that accused it of tracking Chrome users' activities even when they were using Incognito mode. Now, after a failed attempt to get it dismissed, the company has agreed to settle the complaint that originally sought $5 billion in damages. According to Reuters and The Washington Post, neither side has made the details of the settlement public, but they've already agreed to the terms that they're presenting to the court for approval in February.When the plaintiffs filed the lawsuit, they…

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and its debtors on Friday said they have entered into a settlement agreement with founder Samuel Bankman-Fried and others to resolve some claims related to its acquisition of stock trading platform Embed.The settlement agreement is between Bankman-Fried, and former FTX executives Nishad Singh and Gary Wang.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIM LucknowIIML…

Google is planing to settle the antitrust lawsuit in the US that it is facing for its dominance in the Android app store. Although Google still maintains no wrongdoing, it will be paying out $700 million to various people and states, and also promise to allow for better competition…

The biggest change: Google will need to let developers steer consumers away from the Google Play Store for several years, if this settlement is approved.You can read the full 68-page settlement for yourself at the bottom of this story, but here’s the TL;DR about what it includes:Does that sound like a lot? If you add it all up, it does make for a slightly different Google app store landscape than we’ve experienced over the past decade and change. But not only does every one of these concessions have an expiration date,…

California’s Civil Rights Department reached a settlement with Activision Blizzard late last week two years after the state regulator brought a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination, pay inequities and a culture of sexual harassment at the video game company. Activision Blizzard, which publishes hit games like the Call of Duty franchise and World of Warcraft, agreed to pay $54 million and committed to implementing measures to ensure fair pay and equitable promotions. Roughly $46 million of the funds will go to…