Even if Facebook is banned in China, the company founded by Mark Zuckerberg won a trademark lawsuit in the Asian giant. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that in April, the Beijing Higher People’s Court …
Stop that tag! A judge ruled last week that a US class-action lawsuit arguing that Facebook’s use of its facial recognition tech violates Illinois law will go ahead, despite the company’s attempts to dismiss it. People upload millions of photos to Facebook every day.
Rich Williams continues tidying up at Groupon, selling off some of the bits and pieces collected over the years that the company no longer wants or can afford. Groupon sold Breadcrumb, a point-of-sale checkout system for restaurants that uses iPads, to Upserve, a Providence, R.I.-based company that makes software used by restaurants to manage operations. In the past year, Chicago-based Groupon …
People in Bennington attend a recent public hearing about the North Bennington water crisis. Nearby Pownal reported low levels of contamination Thursday. (Photo: Courtesy Chris Wright)
A group of Bennington County residents have filed a class-action lawsuit against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, the company Vermont says is responsible for PFOA contamination in their drinking water.
Lumber Liquidators reported a wider-than-expected first-quarter loss and sales declined for a fifth straight quarter as the Toano-based flooring company spends heavily to put behind it damaging reports on potentially dangerous products imported from China. The company will contribute $26 million and a million of its shares to a settlement fund to resolve a related class action. That follows an …
A group of residents has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company believed by the state to be responsible for contaminating private wells. Residents are claiming negligence against Saint-Gobain and seek more than $5 million in damages. They also want the company to pay to connect affected homes to municipal water, clean up contamination and implement long-term medical …
Renaud Laplanche stepped down last Friday, the online lender announced today. According to an internal investigation, Laplanche had improperly managed $22 million in loan sale agreements in March and April. Three additional senior executives resigned or were fired.
It’s well-known that Facebook uses an algorithm that can recognise a person based on information in photographs. It’s a little creepy, sure, but is it illegal? Earlier this week, a court ruled against Facebook in a lawsuit that alleged the company unlawfully collected biometric data pertaining to faces in photos without users’ consent, according to CNET.
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is being sued by an Illinois woman who claims that the coffee chain “underfills” its iced beverages. The complainant states that a venti cold drink only contains 14 ounces of a beverage, and only reaches the advertised 24 ounces after ice is added. If the complaint is approved as a class action suit, Starbucks could be sued for over $5 million on behalf of everyone in …
A Catholic woman fired from her job at a bottled water company led by a Nevada lawmaker has filed a federal lawsuit against the business, saying she was pressured to watch videos on Scientology and was denied pay raises because of her religious beliefs. Grecia Echevarria-Hernandez filed a discrimination lawsuit April 26 against Las Vegas-based AffinityLifestyles.com, also known as Real …