Tech companies Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and Adobe Systems Inc reportedly settled employee antitrust claims for 10th of the original amount intended to be sought by complainants if the case had went to trial.
BBC lists the top five types of people who could benefit from the recent European Union court ruling on granting a person's request to remove links to personal information on Google.
TIME said privacy protections in the US comes in a form of a group of state and federal laws aimed at specific groups of people, unlike the single, more broad coverage legal measure the European Union has in place following a controversial ruling on a Spanish lawyer's request to remove information about his debts on Google.
Industry observers are concerned about the serious implications of the "right to be forgotten" ruling of an European Union court yesterday to the businesses of Web companies like Google Inc and Microsoft Corp.
An industry expert revealed to PCWorld that the latest ruling that ordered Google Inc to remove links to personal information of an individual could make data mining and research more difficult online.
Facebook Inc won a small victory today in court yesterday when the US Court of Appeals in San Francisco decided to dismiss the claims made by its users that the social network has violated its own user agreement on privacy, Bloomberg reported.
A federal lawsuit filed by a consumer in a San Jose, California court claimed that Google Inc had abused its market power by pushing smartphone manufacturers to offer the company's less popular applications via its secret mobile application distribution agreements, or MADAs, Bloomberg said.
Bloomberg reported that EBay Inc has agreed to settle a illegal hiring practice complaint with the California state and will be paying $3.75 million as a result of that accord.
According to the plaintiffs of a social inequality lawsuit filed against the city of San Francisco over the private shuttle buses of Silicon Valley companies, it was not fair that the city only collects half of the amount it charges per bus stop on public transport and that it chose to exempt private shuttles from an environmental impact study as mandated by state law.
Bloomberg said that the final arguments tomorrow on the second US patent infringement trial could determine whether Apple Inc's intention all along was to mar the position of Google Inc as the top supplier of mobile smartphone software.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is the latest entity to have filed an argument against a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that granted "Innocence of Muslims" actress Cindy Lee Garcia's request to pull out the film from YouTube.
Andrew Sorkin for the The New York Times questions in his article whether the $9 billion sought by 100,000 complainants about the hiring practices in Silicon Valley was just right.
Berger & Montague's Shanon J. Carson, who represents New Yorker Llana Imber-Gluck in her class-action suit against Google Inc, said that the company has the responsibility to provide adequate measures to mobile phone users to ensure the prevention of unintentional purchases or third-party purchases of freemium app items by children.
US District Judge Lucy Koh has heard an email privacy violations case against Google Inc on Thursday and will need to determine whether she will approve the plaintiffs' request to turn the case into a trillion-dollar class-action suit.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with "Innocence of Muslims" actress Cindy Lee Garcia's request to remove the controversial film from all platforms of Google and ordered both parties to remain silent about it, The Hollywood Reporter said in a report.
A Google Inc wearable ambassador believed that the alleged attack of a San Francisco-based social media analyst wearing Google Glass was an isolated one, as people are just looking to understand the benefits of wearables in their lives.
Instead of appealing to an earlier court rejection of its previous rules on net neutrality, the US Federal Communications Commission announced that it will be introducing a new set of guidelines under its responsibilities as a regulator as underlined by last month's Court of Appeals ruling, the Wall Street Journal said.
According to two anonymous sources, EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding and Michel Barnier, who leads financial-services policy for the EU were not happy with Antitrust Commissioner Joaquin Almunia lack of consultation with fellow commissioners and complainants prior to agreeing to a settlement with Google over antitrust concerns.
Motorola Mobility, said EU competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia, will be expecting a prohibition ruling regarding the mobile phone patents lawsuit Apple Inc has filed against the Google phone unit.
The European Commission said in a statement on Wednesday that it will be resolving an investigation on Google, which was launched following concerns by complainants across Europe on the search engine company's potential antitrust violations.
