India bans 232 Chinese lending and betting apps
And a few non-Chinese lending apps that appear to have been scooped by accident
Legal07 Feb 2023 |
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Pakistan’s PM overturns Wikipedia ban, seeks end to whack-a-mole content blocks
Cabinet committee gets to find a solution after years of bans didn’t achieve a lot
Legal07 Feb 2023 | 18
South Korea to treat crypto tokens and virtual assets as if they were securities
‘Food does not change no matter what bowl it is served in’ says regulator
Legal07 Feb 2023 | 5
Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme
Asia In Brief PLUS: India is the new China for Apple; Sushi licking vid scandalizes Japan; Chinese spy balloon shot down; India's new Amazon tax
Legal05 Feb 2023 | 37
Google gives in to India Android antitrust verdict, kinda
Tech behemoth says it will appeal 'certain aspects' of the decision
Legal26 Jan 2023 | 3
British monarchy goes after Twitter, alleges rent not paid for UK base
One appears to not have been remunerated, Crown Estate tells High Court
Legal24 Jan 2023 | 95
India uses emergency powers to order takedown of BBC documentary
Is a critical account of PM's past actions a real emergency, a political emergency, or a free speech emergency?
Legal24 Jan 2023 | 57
Ex-Twitter Brits launch legal challenge against dismissal
How to conduct a UK redundancy process: Not the way the US social media company is doing it, say sacked employees
Legal13 Jan 2023 | 38
2002 video streaming patent holder sues Amazon and Twitch
Both companies knew about the patent, claims lawsuit
Legal10 Jan 2023 | 22
Beijing official says crackdown on tech companies is over
We might be looking at a new China for 2023 and the Year of the Rabbit
Legal10 Jan 2023 | 3
Alibaba's Jack Ma out as boss of fintech Ant Group
'Corporate governance optimization' sees founder's role reduced, but not in pursuit of a listing
Legal09 Jan 2023 | 3
FTC floats rule to ban imposed non-compete agreements in US
Miscreants would face the wrath of Khan
Legal06 Jan 2023 | 15
FCC suggests licensing 5GHz spectrum to drone operators
What's the WiFly password again?
Legal05 Jan 2023 | 5
Google accuses Indian antitrust watchdog of plagiarizing EU ruling
At least it was Ctrl C, Ctrl V and not ChatGPT
Legal04 Jan 2023 | 6
SEC: Startup had 'no functional streaming service', raised $1.3m anyway
Asks Florida judge to sanction 'American-Latino centric version of Netflix’ for alleged fraud
Legal22 Dec 2022 | 12
Toshiba breaks its silence on sales rumors, to quash them
Asia In Brief PLUS: FTX may be sold in Japan and Singapore; Binance busted in Australia; India won’t limit gaming time
Legal18 Dec 2022 |
Vietnam celebrates 25 years of internet with advertising blacklist
Facebook and YouTube among companies that will have to monitor user content
Legal13 Dec 2022 |
Theranos' Sunny Balwani gets longer sentence than Elizabeth Holmes
Ex-COO of failed blood testing startup will report to prison 6 weeks before fraudster CEO
Legal08 Dec 2022 | 53
Victims of IT scandal in UK postal service will get fresh compensation
Move follows award swallowed up by legal fees
Legal07 Dec 2022 | 76
Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan
Good luck with that, Zuck – remember how it worked out in Australia?
Legal06 Dec 2022 | 72
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Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit rule
Updated Work on a Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway, again
Surprise! China's top Android phones collect way more info
Best to revisit that plan to bring home a cheap OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo, or Realme handset from your holiday
Take the morning off because Outlook has already
We're down to Microsoft 364 again by first week of February
Warning: Microsoft Teams Free (classic) will be gone in 2 months
You may have already known this... but did you know you'll lose data migration unless you switch to paid?
Here's a list of proxy IPs to help block KillNet's DDoS bots
Put pro-Putin bots on the do not call list
UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards
Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm
Power grid worries force Amazon to run Oregon datacenters using fuel cells
And not the green hydrogen kind
Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name
Competition for AI-powered search between Microsoft and Google heats up
China’s Baidu reveals generative AI chatbot based on language model bigger than GPT-3
Probably bilingual bot will be called ERNIE outside China, Wenxin Yiyan within
GitHub claims source code search engine is a game changer
When grep isn't good enough, try Blackbird
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China regulates use of motion detection to trigger smartphone ads
'Shake to jump' technique nixed a year after top apps put it to work
Legal06 Dec 2022 | 3
Tech contractor who uses an umbrella company? UK tax is coming after them
Britain's wallet-checkers suspect VAT avoidance from some of them – to the tune of 10,000-case tribunal backlog
Legal05 Dec 2022 | 69
US ends case against Huawei CFO who holed up in Canada for three years
Wanzhou Meng hasn't re-offended, so last possible charges have been dismissed
Legal05 Dec 2022 | 21
130,000 UK businesses sue Google over £13.6B in lost ad revenues
Parent biz Alphabet also accused of unfair monopoly in online ads
Legal01 Dec 2022 | 25
Microsoft 365 faces more GDPR headwinds as Germany bans it in schools
Redmond disputes report that 'it is not possible to use without transferring personal data to the USA'
Legal30 Nov 2022 | 100
Judge tells Amazon: Stop retaliating against employees
Pioneer Amazon union gets a boost, staffer still get the sack
Legal28 Nov 2022 | 8
Meta scores $200k default win against alleged peddler of Instagram Likes
Manipulating users' feelings on a social media platform? That's our job!
Legal28 Nov 2022 | 3
Software company wins $154k for US Navy's licensing breach
Court lands on less than the millions asked for after sailors made copies of 3D modeling suite 'hundreds of thousands' of times
Legal22 Nov 2022 | 43
After years without data privacy rules, India floats two sets in a week
And ponders subsidies to attract big datacenter and content delivery network builds
Legal22 Nov 2022 |
Dell agrees to pay $1b to settle claims it shortchanged stockholders during EMC acquisition
Drawing a line under the share swap drama of 2018, or trying to...
Legal16 Nov 2022 |
After 47 years, Microsoft issues first sexual harassment and gender report
Faint praise: Windows giant tries to follow best practices and wants to improve
Legal16 Nov 2022 | 4
What's that, Lassie? Boston Dynamics is suing its robot dog tech rival?
The way your computerized canine walks down the stairs looks familiar to us, claims MIT spinoff
Legal15 Nov 2022 | 20
Apple sued for collecting user data despite opt-outs
Doesn't matter what the data is, they thought they pushed the off switch, argues complaint
Legal14 Nov 2022 | 16
Apple and Amazon conspired to raise iPhone and iPad prices, claims class action lawsuit
Alleges agreement choked resellers using Amazon Marketplace, eliminated 98% of competition
Legal10 Nov 2022 | 11
Republican senators tell FTC to back off data security, surveillance rules
And they don't like the states' 'patchwork' privacy laws, either
Legal10 Nov 2022 | 24
Microsoft's $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard under investigation by EU regulators
Officials are concerned acquisition could reduce competition and lock gamers to Xbox and Microsoft PCs
Legal09 Nov 2022 | 10
Europe wants Airbnb and pals to cough up rental property logs
Holiday property landlords' vacation from regulation is coming to an end
Legal08 Nov 2022 | 52
Terraform Labs and crypto bro Do Kwon face $57 million court case in Singapore
But will Kwon show up in court? Probably not.
Legal01 Nov 2022 | 10
IBM India tells employees they can moonlight – but only for good causes, with permission
Local boss wants workers to indulge in their passions … so long as it doesn't conflict with Big Blue's activities
Legal27 Oct 2022 | 6
India fines Google another $114 million, demands Play open to third party payments
Ad and search giant protests even though it's already made the same changes in other countries
Legal27 Oct 2022 | 1
Infosys reverses opposition to staff taking side gigs
Moonlighting is now now OK – if you do it the Infosys way, says CEO Salil Parekh
Legal21 Oct 2022 | 11
EU companies claim Google still abusing its Shopping power
Search giant's 'Shopping Units need to go,' say coalition of 43 online comparison tools
Legal17 Oct 2022 | 10
Too bad, contractors: UK government reverses decision to axe IR35 tax reform
Latest U-turn follows a series of clown-car maneuvers that spooked financial markets
Legal17 Oct 2022 | 191
Meta mad as hell over allegations it let Indian politicians block content
Local outlet claims to have insider docs that prove takedown powers. Meta says they're fake. And around and around they go
Legal17 Oct 2022 | 8
American techies in China may be breaking the law by showing up to work
Pundit tips next wave of bans will target foreign investment in Chinese tech
Legal14 Oct 2022 | 5
Big win for Big Tech as Indian IT minister signals reversal of data sovereignty plan
Opponents want data to flow across borders for business and democracy. Privacy? They've heard of it
Legal12 Oct 2022 | 2
Infosys must face claims it told recruiter not to hire women with kids 'at home'
Attempts to dismiss suit denied as former staffer alleges she was expressly told to swerve over-50s
Legal04 Oct 2022 | 19
Xiaomi India names Qualcomm as destination for allegedly illegal payments
Asia In Brief PLUS: Toshiba considers offers, clams up; India's HFCL claims Wi-Fi 7 first; Vietnam may censor SocMed; and more
Legal04 Oct 2022 | 1
Apple exec sues over 'ageist' removal of $800k stock bonus
IP director claims he was skipped over for merit-based retention bonus because of the retention part
Legal29 Sep 2022 | 26
Indian authorities probe Singapore gaming payments outfit Coda
Claims kids unwittingly click up huge bills in games, only for their cash to fly offshore
Legal29 Sep 2022 | 2
Good news for UK tech contractors as govt repeals IR35 tax rules
Controversial reforms ditched but expert notes HMRC thinks 90% don't comply
Legal23 Sep 2022 | 83
Meta told to pay $175m to walkie-talkie techies for infringing IP
Facebook and Instagram Live use same programming described in Voxer patents, says jury
Legal22 Sep 2022 | 22
Where in the world is Terraform Labs' alleged crypto-crasher Do Kwon?
South Korean prosecutor believes he is on the run from charges laid over Luna stablecoin crash
Legal19 Sep 2022 | 8
Arrest warrant issued for Do Kwon – the man blamed for 'crypto winter'
Terraform Labs CEO was boss of the TerraUSD and Luna crypto crash. South Korea wants him in cuffs
Legal15 Sep 2022 | 32
Google fined $4b after Euro court snips 5% off earlier price
Search giant’s appeal lands flat as fine imposed for anticompetitive practice in Android search
Legal14 Sep 2022 | 16
Google faces fines of up to $25.4b in UK and EU ad tech case
Legal cases in Europe claim anticompetitive conduct, which Google denies
Legal14 Sep 2022 | 16
UK tech sector facing structural difficulties, says analyst firm
Meanwhile, Federal Reserve sentiment sees US tech stock fall amid uncertainty
Legal07 Sep 2022 | 28
California passes bill requiring salary ranges on job listings
Legislation also aims to tackle wage gaps around gender, race, and ethnicity
Legal06 Sep 2022 | 64
Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election
National Labor Relations Board says company had not met the burden of proof for its objections
Legal02 Sep 2022 | 34
Microsoft, Activision Blizzard have days to show merger won't harm competition
Brit watchdog says what we're all thinking, motions for deeper investigation
Legal02 Sep 2022 | 19
Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount
Zuckerberg and Sandberg won't have to testify – worth much more than cash for Meta
Legal29 Aug 2022 | 31
Twitter whistleblower summoned to Senate Judiciary Committee
Updated Get the popcorn out for September 13
Legal25 Aug 2022 | 18
Apple autonomous car engineer pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets
Top secret tech theft admission sealed into top secret plea deal
Legal23 Aug 2022 | 17
Lawsuit accuses Oracle of facilitating sales of 'billions' of folks' personal data
Privacy case claiming Big Red contravened a string of US laws follows boasts made by Larry Ellison in 2016
Legal23 Aug 2022 | 29
China cybersecurity regulator wants to support tech growth
New and friendlier CAC, after years of cracking down
Legal23 Aug 2022 | 2
How important are tech and other contractors to UK? PM candidate promises tax review if elected
Liz Truss to go over IR35 off payroll tax as ruling party voters gear up to pick their leader
Legal22 Aug 2022 | 63
Vietnam demands Big Tech localize data storage and offices
Mandate goes into effect October 1, but industry players will have a year to comply
Legal19 Aug 2022 | 5
South Korea cracks down on unlicensed foreign crypto businesses
Financial Services Commission also creates a digital assets task force
Legal18 Aug 2022 | 2
Ninefold increase in startup layoffs in Q2 follows economic uncertainty
Industry set to readjust to new realities of raising cash
Legal16 Aug 2022 |
Intel hands over nearly 5,000 patents in deal with IP management outfit
Newly formed Tahoe Research Limited will seek to license them to third parties
Legal15 Aug 2022 | 12
Samsung heir pardoned after doing time for bribery
Government said they need the Samsung boss back at work to deal with South Korea’s looming economic crisis
Legal15 Aug 2022 | 15
Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway
Presiding officer was not impressed by Cupertino's arguments or behavior
Legal15 Aug 2022 | 72
Google fined $42.5m over misleading Android location settings in Australia
Ad behemoth committed to 'providing the most helpful products possible'
Legal12 Aug 2022 | 14
Court voids 34,000 unfair Fuji Xerox contracts
Required customers to pay for software they did not receive, among other sins
Legal12 Aug 2022 | 26
Four charged with tricking Qualcomm into buying $150m startup
Updated Technically the chip giant already owned the tech due to real inventor’s contract, according to DoJ
Legal11 Aug 2022 | 18
Ex-Twitter staffer convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia
Ahmad Abouammo is facing 10-20 years in prison for leaking PII from 6,000 Twitter accounts
Legal11 Aug 2022 | 5
South Korean regulator worried Apple, Google, may be working around app store payment choice law
Feels some actions may amount to coercion to stick with giants' own payment schemes
Legal10 Aug 2022 | 10
President Biden signs CHIPS and Science Act into law
American semiconductor manufacturing is back, baby!
Legal09 Aug 2022 | 17
Google hit with lawsuit for dropping free Workspace apps
Free Forever, or Free Until We Decide It Isn't policy criticised in filing
Legal08 Aug 2022 | 42
India proposes increased power to vet tech mergers
Asia In brief Chinese phone makers' tax deals probed; PayPal back in Indonesia; Boeing seeks sustainability in Japan; and more
Legal08 Aug 2022 |
HPE says $30m Solaris verdict against it didn't provide 'evidence' of copyright
Alleges Oracle did not register the patches it claims were infringed
Legal04 Aug 2022 | 18
Toyota's truck brand Hino admits faking and fudging emissions data for 20 years
Oh what a failing!
Legal03 Aug 2022 | 27
US authorities threaten Alibaba with NYSE delisting
Strike one: Amazon rival's audits apparently haven't satisfied the SEC
Legal01 Aug 2022 | 23
Indonesia sparks outrage by blocking PayPal, gaming sites, for compliance oversight
Yahoo! was blocked too, but … meh
Legal01 Aug 2022 | 18
China's IT minister under investigation for violating law
Xiao Yaqing had been steering China's chip industry
Legal29 Jul 2022 | 6
Court allows Huawei India CEO to appeal travel ban
Allegations of financial impropriety continue to swirl
Legal28 Jul 2022 |
Alibaba to upgrade its Hong Kong listing to parity with New York
And ponders more listings in China – the day after Beijing announces super-regulator for tech
Legal26 Jul 2022 | 2
Browsers could face two regimes in Europe as UK law set to diverge from EU
British government wants to boost innovation but lawyers warn of risk to adequacy ruling
Legal25 Jul 2022 | 128
South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs
Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese
Legal25 Jul 2022 |
CityFibre loses appeal against Openreach discounts for ISPs
Tribunal says broadband company failed to show it had been treated unfairly by regulator's decision
Legal22 Jul 2022 | 29
DiDi in deep doo-doo over 64 billion illegal acts of data collection
Billion-dollar fine for eight billion items lifted from clipboards, 107 million facial recognition files … and more
Legal22 Jul 2022 | 16
National data privacy law for the US clears first hurdle
ADPPA doesn't make everyone happy, particularly California
Legal21 Jul 2022 | 14
Toshiba shrinks its shortlist of suitors but warns a deal won't happen soon
Bain and Japan Industrial Partners among those in the running
Legal21 Jul 2022 |
Apple Pay bags Cupertino another antitrust lawsuit
If this sounds familiar, it's because the EU is investigating the same thing
Legal19 Jul 2022 | 7
Russia fines Google $374 million for letting the truth about Ukraine be told
Putin declares he'll make his own Googles now, thanks
Legal19 Jul 2022 | 178
IQE files against Tower Semiconductor claiming theft of trade secrets
Updated Wafer company says it has 'significant reason' to believe Israeli chipmaker misappropriated IP
Legal18 Jul 2022 |
EU court says it can probe M&As even when one party has no European operations
Bloc insists it has right to rule on planned merger between US biotech firms Illumina and Grail
Legal14 Jul 2022 | 15
Former CIA engineer Joshua Schulte convicted of spying over WikiLeaks dump
Trial revisited the same old issues for a new jury, including CIA’s atrocious infosec practices
Legal14 Jul 2022 | 14
Russia fines Apple and Zoom for failure to prove domestic data storage
Also: Ministry of Digitalization proposes new fine structure for data leaks
Legal13 Jul 2022 | 25
Oracle agrees to settle class action over cloud sales tactics for $17.5m
Big Red denies any malpractice in relation to alleged 'coercive' product boosts
Legal13 Jul 2022 | 3
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