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FTC Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Qualcomm

The Federal Trade Commission announced an antitrust lawsuit against semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm Inc. The suit , filed Tuesday in California, charges Qualcomm with tactics meant to maintain its monopoly in certain baseband processors a key element of mobile cellular devices and to “impose onerous and anticompetitive supply and licensing terms on cell phone …



What the Fitbit Lawsuit Means for Clinical researchers

Fitbit is facing a class-action lawsuit regarding the accuracy of their heart-rate data, which have been shown to be inaccurate by a margin of up to 20 beats per minute by researchers at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. This news risks sending back to the drawing board many of us who have been optimistically experimenting with biotelemetry. We’ve been asked about the lawsuit nearly …


PwC Faces Record $5.5bn Lawsuit Over Mortgage Underwriter Collapse

The complainant is Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW), which was a top-10 wholesale mortgage lending firm. The trustees of the company are accusing PwC of negligence in their audits of TBW’s lender, Colonial Bank. In an agreement between the top management of the borrower and the bank, starting from 2002, TBW chairman Lee Farkas sent mortgage data to Colonial Bank for fake loans or those the company …