You would think that Silicon Valley giants would compensate their employees well, support their professional growth, and know that a time will come when they leave for greener pastures. C-level execs at Apple, Google, Adobe, Pixar, Intel, Intuit, and Lucasfilm apparently thought, acted, and communicated differently, however, according to newly…
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Amazon.com faces a class action lawsuit (below) over cyber theft of personal account data from more than 24 million customers that did business with the company's Zappos.com unit. A Kentucky law firm filed the lawsuit against Zappos.com just one day after the footwear e-tailer's servers storing customer account information were…
A new antitrust lawsuit filed on behalf of iPhone users could get rid of Apple's exclusivity agreements ('EA') with AT&T and Verizon. The class-action lawsuit (below) accuses Apple of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ('DMCA') because the EAs do not giving consumers the "absolute legal right to modify their…
Carrier IQ, a mobile phone software and data analytics company that gives telecoms business intelligence on connections, dropped calls and user behavior was hit with at least eleven consumer class-action lawsuits alleging privacy and Federal Wiretap Act violations. The lawsuits accuse the telecom software analystics company of variously recording Android…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments next year over the dismissal of a class-action by Facebook users who claimed they were hurt when Facebook promoted its "Friend Finder" by displaying their profile information. A briefing schedule is now listed on the court's case docket.…