Last December, a group of 10 gamers sued Microsoft to block a takeover of Activision Blizzard. Dissatisfied players from California, New Jersey and New Mexico justified their decision by saying the deal allegedly reduces competition in the industry...
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Alphabet, which owns Google, has been sued by its investors. They allege that the company has a monopoly in the online advertising market, as a US Department of Justice investigation into the matter has already led to “Significant Loss and...
portal Chronicle of Video Games pointed out that the Austrian court recognized the FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) jerseys in Electronic Arts’ FIFA football simulators as gambling. Image Source: Steam (‘Caddyck) FUT Packs currently are in-game...
Chrome browser users suing Google over data collection practices have lost their appeal and lost the ability to recover billions of dollars in a class action lawsuit from the defendant. Image Source: Nathana Reboucas / unsplash.com The lawsuit was...
The Administrative Court of the Department of Magdalena in Colombia has held a session in the Metaverse for the first time and will continue experiments with virtual reality. However, there is still no talk of an introduction to ordinary court...
A federal judge in Austin, Texas, denied Meta’s request on Tuesday* to overturn a jury ruling that found the company infringed on patents held by walkie-talkie app developer Voxer and must now pay $174.5 million in damages. Image source: succo...
Facebook representative* obtained a temporary dismissal of a £3 billion ($3.7 billion) class action lawsuit in the UK. The social network was accused of abusing a dominant position in the monetization of users’ personal data – the...
The lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice against Google, which dominates the online advertising market, could play into the hands of the company’s competitors and resource owners who sell ad space. But when it comes to advertisers...
As expected, the US Department of Justice and eight states, including New York, California and Virginia, are suing Google (Alphabet’s holding company) for monopolizing the online digital advertising market. informed Bloomberg resource. The...
Twitter user Stephen Gerber sued the social network, accusing its administration of insufficiently protecting users’ personal data, making a database of 200 million records publicly available. Image source: edar/pixabay.com According to the...
Google is embroiled in a legal battle that could force it to rebrand its YouTube Shorts division, which is positioned as a direct competitor to TikTok and Facebook/Instagram Reels. Image source: Christian Wiediger / unsplash.com The day before, the...
A hearing is being held in an American court next month where the defendant will attempt to challenge a speeding ticket. A robot with artificial intelligence (AI) helps him. Image source: Conny Schneider / unsplash.com Joshua Browder, head of...
A resident of the US state of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against LastPass, which received class action status – in the past year, the service’s resources were hacked twice, even though its administration tried to assure users of the safety...
portal Ars Technica drew attention to the fact that on January 4, the court had approved a settlement agreement between Polish studio CD Projekt RED and a group of investors who had filed a class-action lawsuit against the studio in connection with...
company meta* (formerly Facebook*) has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of leaking users’ personal information to third parties, including Cambridge Analytica. Image source: succo /...
Microsoft filed a day earlier in response to an antitrust lawsuit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – the agency is trying to prevent the software giant from acquiring games publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion...
portal kotaku noted that the publisher and developer of games about Pokemon The Pokemon Company (TPC) is in a legal battle with the makers of a mobile NFT game called PokeWorld. Image source: NFTCendar PokeWorld is being developed by Melbourne-based...
portal axios reports that according to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a group of ordinary gamers is trying to block Microsoft’s deal to acquire Activision Blizzard in court. Image Source: Steam The plaintiffs’ association...
Google has emerged victorious in two hearings regarding Chrome Browser users’ privacy concerns. The company was accused of the browser continuing to collect personal data, even though users had not expressly consented to this. Image source:...
portal polygon reports that the American publisher and developer Riot Games has decided to sue the Chinese company NetEase because of the excessive resemblance of its team-based shooter Hyper Front to its Valorant. Image source: NetEase Like...
