California Governor Wants to Curb a Labor Law That Cost Businesses $10B June 13, 2024 By Josh Eidelson and Andrew Oxford For two decades, a California law has helped workers sue the world’s biggest companies. Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. won...
Social Media Giants Avoid School Districts’ Addiction Claims June 10, 2024 By Rachel Graf and Isaiah Poritz Meta Platforms Inc. and other social media companies won the dismissal of novel claims in hundreds of lawsuits brought by...
Google Ad Tech Class Action Gets Go Ahead From London Judges June 5, 2024 By Upmanyu Trivedi London judges ruled a class action lawsuit to proceed against Google potentially seeking billions of pounds in damages over allegations...
Google Fights $17 Billion UK Lawsuit Over Ad-Tech Practices May 10, 2024 Google parent Alphabet has urged a London tribunal to block a mass lawsuit which accuses it of abusing its dominance...
Google Trial Wraps Up as Judge Weighs Landmark US Antitrust Claims May 6, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Google and the U.S. Justice Department wrapped up closing arguments on Friday over claims that the Alphabet unit has unlawfully...
Google Fires 28 Workers Protesting $1.2 Billion Israeli Contract April 18, 2024 By Davey Alba and Julia Love Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint...
Google Agrees to Delete Web Browsing Data as it Settles ‘Incognito’ Lawsuit April 2, 2024 By Davey Alba Google said it would delete millions of records of users’ browsing activities as part of a settlement of a class-action...
Canadian School Boards Sue Social Media Giants for Over C$4B in Damages April 1, 2024 Four Canadian school boards have sought more than C$4 billion ($2.96 billion) in damages from social media firms such as...
Apple, Meta, Google to Face EU Digital Markets Act Probes: Sources March 22, 2024 By Foo Yun Chee Apple, Meta Platforms and Alphabet’s Google are set to be investigated for potential violations of the European Union’s Digital Markets...
US Judge Says Google Must Face Some Advertisers’ Antitrust Claims, Dismisses Others March 4, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel Alphabet’s Google must face advertisers’ proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes the ad exchange market, a U.S. judge...