Several privacy lawsuits against Google, Inc. have been consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware following a ruling by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). In In Re: Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation, the JPML found that "eight actions involve common questions of…
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Facebook faces a lawsuit by new shareholders in the social networking company, filed less than a week after its IPO. The shareholders allege that Facebook misled them by filing untrue statements in legal filings with the S.E.C., failed to prevent such statements from being misleading, and did not properly prepare…
That didn't take long. A class action lawsuit was filed yesterday against NASDAQ by an individual investor accusing the stock exchange of botching his Facebook stock (FB) orders on the day of the IPO. Plaintiff Phillip Goldberg alleges that he "placed purchase and cancellation orders for Facebook’s stock that NASDAQ…
Facebook's IPO on Friday brought with it problems for NASDAQ. The exchange's CEO Robert Greifeld acknowledged that NASDAQ had a host of trading glitches on the day of the IPO, including a foul-up with the trading system's ability to handle order cancellations. Now, NASDAQ's admission of its Facebook faux pas…
A new class-action lawsuit accuses Apple of raining on iCloud users' service, charging that the company's promise that "migrating from MobileMe to iCould would be 'effortless' was one of many "misrepresentations" to consumers. The lawsuit alleges that Apple duped MobileMe customers into believing that they would get a newer, improved…
Martha Davis, a founding member of the '80s rock band The Motels, filed a class action lawsuit today against the EMI record label. Davis and her group are known for their 1980's chart topping hits, "Only the Lonely" and "Suddenly Last Summer." The legendary songstress accuses the label that she…
East Bay soul funk legend Tower of Power filed a class-action lawsuit against Warner Music on Tuesday, charging that the record label Warner Music, Inc. stiffed them out of music royalties by mischaracterizing digital downloads as sales, instead of licenses that pay artists a much higher premium. Tower of Power…
Yahoo! Mail user Albert Rudgayzer sued the Silicon Valley web portal yesterday, charging that Yahoo's revelation of users first and last names when they send email violates the portal's own Terms of Service ('TOS'), constituting a breach of contract. He seeks relief under federal and California state law. Rudgayzer, a…
A new federal class action lawsuit (see below) charges that a host of well-known social media, app, and mobile device companies stole "literally billions of contacts" from users' personal address books by illegally 'harvesting' personal data on the sly, without their knowledge or consent. The 152-page complaint seeks monetary damages…
PayPal was hit with a class-action lawsuit today alleging that the company violated a federal communications law by sending consumers unsolicited text messages. The lawsuit charges PayPal with violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a federal law designed to protect consumers from unwarranted, unsolicited phone communication from automatic telephone dialing…