Mysterious firm seeks to buy majority stake in Arm China
Chinese joint venture's ousted CEO tries to hang on - who will get control?
Legal20 May 2022 | 13
Legal
Lawmakers launch bill to break up tech giants' ad dominance
Running ad auctions while also buying and selling ads may be outlawed for large firms
Legal19 May 2022 | 5
Landmark case recognizes Bored Ape NFT as an asset
Singapore issues injunction against the sale of image procured through questionable foreclosure
Legal19 May 2022 | 37
IT staffing, recruitment biz settles claims it discriminated against Americans
Foreign workers favored over US residents because that's what clients wanted, allegedly
Legal19 May 2022 | 22
Judge details Lynch's $700k signoff via iPhone text in full Autonomy judgement
Still no damages number, likely to be way less than $5 billion
Legal18 May 2022 | 5
Tech pros warn EU 'data adequacy' at risk if Brexit Britain goes its own way
Show us that benefits outweigh the cost, BCS challenges government
Legal17 May 2022 | 83
Lawyers say changes to UK data law will make life harder for international businesses
Concerns raised over government drive to implement distinct post-Brexit policy
Legal16 May 2022 | 69
Toshiba says it's talking to 10 suitors about possible sale
Hires external advisors to bolster decision making capacity and hints it could consider multiple buyout plans
Legal16 May 2022 | 7
Judge agrees damages model in Oracle cloud class-action
Link between compliance and sales appeared to boost cloud performance in case disputed by Big Red
Legal11 May 2022 | 7
Appian awarded over $2b after claiming Pegasystems stole its data
Low-code platform providers' legal tussle ends with 'largest damages award in Virginia state court history'
Legal10 May 2022 | 19
Tesla sues former engineer, claims he stole Dojo supercomputer trade secrets
AI is meant to solve tech challenges innate in designing, running complex system
Legal09 May 2022 | 12
Nvidia pays $5.5m to settle SEC charges of shoddy cryptomining disclosures
GPU giant accused of obscuring its impact on gaming segment in 2017
Legal06 May 2022 | 1
Facebook deliberately took down Australian government pages during pay-for-news negotiations: report
Whistleblowers say takedowns were used as leverage, Facebook disagrees
Legal06 May 2022 | 18
Shareholders turn the screws on IBM and its gag orders
In wake of dinobaby-gate, investors not happy with NDAs hushing up claims of harassment, discrimination
Legal05 May 2022 | 31
SEC adds Tencent, JD.com, China Mobile to group facing potential delisting
US requires a bit more transparency than some Chinese tech companies are giving
Legal05 May 2022 | 3
World needs multilateral chip tech export bans to hurt China – think tank
Current arrangements may promote offshore workarounds and don't make life hard enough
Legal05 May 2022 | 20
Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global reveals SEC probing its IPO
US regulator looking into alleged 'misstatements' and 'omissions' related to June 2021 USA float
Legal04 May 2022 | 3
LinkedIn settles Dept of Labor charges it underpaid women
Microsoft's social network for thinkfluencers disagrees with Uncle Sam, coughs up $1.8m
Legal03 May 2022 | 2
India seizes $725 million of Xiaomi's cash
Chinese giant really got something in return for those cross-border payments, say money laundering cops
Legal03 May 2022 | 14
Arm China website posts letter from staff opposing change of management
SoftBank may control the company, but it seems not to have all the important passwords
Legal03 May 2022 | 8
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Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots'
Ad-tech firms grab email addresses from forms before they're even submitted
Researchers find widespread harvesting of info without consent
Voyager 1 space probe producing ‘anomalous telemetry data’
Engineers debugging at 160 bits per second, with 41 hours latency
The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs
Analysis You look like Windows, and you look like Windows and you look like Windows ...
US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025
China refuses to share benchmarks, US sharpens focus on developing optimized software
Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests
Still think we're ready for that autonomous future?
Export bans prompt Russia to use Chinese x86 CPU replacement
With few options, Russia will look to half-fast chips from Chinese maker
Google Russia goes broke after bank account snatched
We're shutting down as we can no longer pay staff, bills, web giant says
Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker
Markets outside China are doing better, but at home vendors have huge component stockpiles
Your data's auctioned off up to 987 times a day, NGO reports
Irish Council on Civil Liberties said this is first time the scope of real-time bidding is being measured
STORIES
EU Apple suit alleges anticompetitive Apple Pay practices
The new investigation marks the fourth set of allegations leveled against Apple by the EU since 2020
Legal02 May 2022 | 14
Arm wrests back control of its rogue China limb
Updated Ouster of rebel CEO should clear path for planned Arm IPO
Legal29 Apr 2022 | 5
US appeals court ruling could 'eliminate internet privacy'
Tech terms of service dissolve Fourth Amendment rights, EFF warns
Legal28 Apr 2022 | 57
Indian government hauls Infosys in to explain non-compete clause
Not hard to see why Infosys wants to keep staff – rival HCL blames price hikes on pay rises and recruitment costs
Legal28 Apr 2022 | 8
US Navy told to do a 'supplemental' integrity investigation of $2.5b Dell deal
Email about pricing from rival seller of Microsoft licensing and software under spotlight
Legal27 Apr 2022 | 9
EU eyes tech giant revenues as Digital Services Act clears hurdles
Fines worth 6 percent of annual turnover survived draft in provisional agreement
Legal25 Apr 2022 | 4
Judge dismisses Microsoft's challenges: ValueLicensing case to proceed in Britain
UK High Court beckons for Windows vendor and reseller amid claims of on-prem software license skulduggery
Legal20 Apr 2022 | 18
IBM ordered to pay $105 million to insurer over tech project's collapse
Appeals court takes previous payout ruling and multiplies by six
Legal19 Apr 2022 | 36
Infosys quits Russia, ending UK political and tax scandal … maybe
Founder's daughter is married to top UK politician, holds billion dollar stake that was maxed for tax efficiency
Legal14 Apr 2022 | 55
IBM not cooperating with discovery, say attorneys in age-discrimination case
Big Blue contends it should not be forced to reveal more than law requires
Legal14 Apr 2022 | 26
Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong in trouble again – this time over financial filings
Fair Trade Commission concerned false paperwork took years to decipher
Legal12 Apr 2022 | 2
EU appeals overturned $1.2b Intel antitrust fine
12 years on, rebates-for-not-using-AMD-chips case isn't over yet...
Legal08 Apr 2022 | 11
Toshiba puts going private on the table
Appoints independent committee and gives angry investors most of what they want
Legal08 Apr 2022 | 4
Congressional pressure mounts to pass $52b CHIPS Act
Pressure on Congress to submit the America COMPETES Act ASAP
Legal07 Apr 2022 | 11
Another big Toshiba shareholder calls for major change
3D Investment Partners wants to sell, labels company a 'governance embarrassment for Japan'
Legal07 Apr 2022 | 1
Epic Games' court dates with Apple and Google pushed into 2024
Judge ponders battle royale between all three to avoid unhelpful overlaps
Legal05 Apr 2022 | 9
Beijing bails out bankrupt Chinese chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup
This matters for China – and for HPE, Intel … and possibly Apple
Legal05 Apr 2022 | 11
China moves to protect offshore tech company listings
Unusual move sees regulator open consultation on access to audit documents
Legal04 Apr 2022 | 3
Remember when Huawei's CFO was detained in Canada? She's been promoted to chair the board
Meng Wanzhou will get her regular six-month stints in the role, starting who knows when
Legal04 Apr 2022 | 21
Amazon warehouse workers in New York unionize in historic win against web giant
White House chimes in: Folks 'in every state must have a free and fair choice' to unionize
Legal01 Apr 2022 | 99
UK suit over reselling surplus Microsoft licenses rolls on
In the meantime, Windows giant eliminates 'challenged restriction'
Legal01 Apr 2022 | 45
China tells big tech to reveal some customers' income
Livestreamed infomercials are huge, but some creators aren't paying tax
Legal31 Mar 2022 | 13
SPAC sponsors could soon be held liable for over-hyping to investors
US watchdog may do something about so-called blank-check IPO capers
Legal30 Mar 2022 | 9
DoJ to Congress: Thumbs up for big tech antitrust bill
Stopping Amazon, Google, others from prioritizing own products and services
Legal29 Mar 2022 | 5
Three Twilio developers charged with insider trading
Crew alleged to have banked over $1m thanks to pandemic-induced usage bumps
Legal29 Mar 2022 | 11
Axed data scientist sues IBM claiming he was discriminated against as a man
Says he wasn't given leave options available to women colleagues
Legal28 Mar 2022 | 23
EU, US agree on Privacy Shield enhancements
Transatlantic data sharing deal confirmed but court challenges ahead, warn lawyers
Legal25 Mar 2022 | 41
Big Tech revenues under threat from EU law proposals
Digital Markets Act rules agreed, set to include fines of up to 10% of turnover and power to break up businesses
Legal25 Mar 2022 | 28
Weibo faces US stock exchange delisting
China's Twitter analog is latest in SEC crosshairs over audits
Legal24 Mar 2022 | 3
EU law threatening 'commercially painful changes' for tech out tonight
Reports suggest Digital Markets Act could hit a broader sweep of players than the FAANG gang
Legal24 Mar 2022 | 61
Toshiba shareholders reject split plan and private sale
Back to the drawing board for company plagued by years of scandals
Legal24 Mar 2022 | 2
US court allows ZTE to exit probation despite visa fraud
But judge encourages government to pursue criminal or civil charges against the company
Legal23 Mar 2022 | 5
IBM files IP lawsuit against mainframe migration firm
Claims shell company formed to license mainframe products for reverse engineering
Legal22 Mar 2022 | 12
DoJ accuses Google of training staff to make 'false requests for legal advice'
'Communicate with Care' baked into orientation for newbies, according to fresh filing in ad search monopoly case
Legal22 Mar 2022 | 27
Russian court deems Instagram and Facebook as 'extremist', WhatsApp spared
Ruling says it doesn't disseminate info as widely but some suspect it's because of the app's popularity
Legal22 Mar 2022 | 16
HCL stands by legality of its bonus clawback scheme
Indian services giant says taking back cash did not violate employment laws – union begs to differ
Legal21 Mar 2022 | 2
$5bn+ Big Tech mergers in cross-hairs of draft US laws
Democrat-backed bills would also grant watchdogs powers to undo takeovers
Legal17 Mar 2022 | 6
SAP to repay $23.1m in water contracts settlement
Tribunal finds evidence of 'irregularly concluded software, support agreements'
Legal17 Mar 2022 | 2
Activist investors attempt to push through racial diversity probe at Salesforce
The move follows lack of progress in equality and two resignations, campaign group says
Legal17 Mar 2022 | 10
Ireland: Meta fined $18.6m for breaking EU's GDPR
Data protection watchdog imposes fine on half-trillion dollar valued Facebook firm
Legal16 Mar 2022 | 9
UK, EU regulators probe Google and Meta's 'Jedi Blue' ad deal
Watchdog: We're 'concerned' they 'teamed up ... to put obstacles in the way of competitors'
Legal11 Mar 2022 | 12
ZTE summoned to US court for allegedly breaking trade sanctions probation
Case relates to alleged conspiracy to illegally bring over Chinese nationals
Legal07 Mar 2022 | 1
EU proposes law forcing manufacturers to share data
Users set to get right to access products' data stream, public sector might dip in too
Legal24 Feb 2022 | 23
European Union takes China to WTO over smartphone patents
Alleges Middle Kingdom's courts make it impossible to chase manufacturers who won't respect IP rights
Legal21 Feb 2022 | 54
WeChat, AliExpress added to US Notorious Markets list
Trade watchdog admits China is #1 ... at cranking out counterfeit products, sometimes with forced labor
Legal18 Feb 2022 | 33
Tax inspectors raid Huawei offices
Financial allegations could make nice change from accusations of being Beijing's eavesdropping machine
Legal18 Feb 2022 | 11
Dido Harding's appointment to English public health body ruled unlawful
Hiring of ex-Sainsbury's CEO at NHS Test and Trace also against equality law – court
Legal15 Feb 2022 | 74
Hong Kong Watch says its website suddenly can't be seen in Hong Kong
Who could possibly want readers in HK not to access independent opinions about the rule of law?
Legal15 Feb 2022 | 26
IT technician jailed for wiping school's and pupils' devices
Court told he'd acted from 'spite and revenge' due to grudge over sacking
Legal14 Feb 2022 | 100
IBM looked to reinvigorate its 'dated maternal workforce'
Updated Court docs reveal older IBMers were labeled 'dinobabies', plus plan to make them 'extinct'
Legal14 Feb 2022 | 94
No help for IT contractors on IR35 tax errors
NAO says £263m in IR35 tax mistakes is just the start...
Legal11 Feb 2022 | 24
World's top chipmaking equipment maker claims Chinese rival may infringe IP
Lithography titan ASML names DongFang JingYuan Electron as a worry
Legal11 Feb 2022 | 36
France says Google Analytics breaches GDPR when it sends data to US
Hapless unnamed website manager given one month to strip GA from their site
Legal10 Feb 2022 | 133
US prosecutors: Chinese walkie-talkie-maker Hytera stole Motorola secrets
Updated Lured workers with bigger pay. Workers walked – then they talked
Legal08 Feb 2022 | 10
Play Store class action has £15m budget for defeating Google in London court
Detail emerges on who's funding it ... and for how much
Legal07 Feb 2022 | 23
Australian court finds Facebook 'divorced from reality' as it tried to define doing business down under
This one was decided on the way the cookies crumbled
Legal07 Feb 2022 | 29
Facebook fined peanuts after Giphy staff quit and firm didn't tell UK competition regulators
£1.5m fine is 0.005% of social network's profits
Legal04 Feb 2022 | 46
Former tech CIO jailed for setting up £475k backhander scam with IT outsourcing firm
One-time head of Hampshire Police IT gets six years
Legal03 Feb 2022 | 21
Court of Appeal ruling offers hope for UK umbrella firm workers chasing holiday pay
Plumber's right did not lapse 'but carried over and accumulated until termination of the contract'
Legal02 Feb 2022 | 16
Brocade wrongly sacked award-winning salesman who depended on company insurance for cancer treatment
'Global benefit' chief: Broadcom buyout means pay your own way
Legal02 Feb 2022 | 91
German regulators nix Taiwanese titan GlobalWafers' acquisition of Siltronic
China's slow signoff didn't help matters one bit
Legal02 Feb 2022 | 6
Attack on Titan: Four Japanese Manga publishers sue Cloudflare
Updated Allege content delivery network enables piracy
Legal01 Feb 2022 | 25
Website fined by German court for leaking visitor's IP address via Google Fonts
Now that's egg on your typeface
Legal31 Jan 2022 | 107
HPE has 'substantially succeeded' in its £3.3bn fraud trial against Autonomy's Mike Lynch – judge
Updated All eyes turn to Priti Patel as midnight extradition deadline looms
Legal28 Jan 2022 | 82
Mike Lynch loses US extradition delay bid: Flight across the Atlantic looks closer than ever
Autonomy founder set for criminal trial on multiple counts of fraud over sale of biz to HPE
Legal26 Jan 2022 | 56
22-year-old Brit avoids US extradition over SIM-swapping conspiracy after judge deems him to be high suicide risk
Accused said to have suffered mental health problems from childhood
Legal25 Jan 2022 | 27
Assange can go to UK Supreme Court (again) to fend off US extradition bid
Top Brit judges may consider whether an American prison is just too much
Legal24 Jan 2022 | 22
Multi-level marketing corporation that sells weightloss products sues ex-exec over 'fraudulent' Dell deal
Alleges he had an off-the-books agreement with reseller
Legal21 Jan 2022 | 10
UK data watchdog slaps Ministry of Justice with Enforcement Notice for breaking GDPR law
ICO threatens £17.5m fine over late processing of subject access requests
Legal19 Jan 2022 | 15
I own that $4.5bn of digi-dosh so rewrite your blockchain and give it to me, Craig Wright tells Bitcoin SV devs
Oh look, another High Court sueball over cryptocurrencies
Legal19 Jan 2022 | 95
Autonomy's Mike Lynch gets yet another judgment date as US extradition wrangling continues
Autonomy Trial Brit exec plays extremely expensive game of hurry up and wait
Legal19 Jan 2022 | 22
Autonomy founder's anti-extradition case is like saying Moon made of cheese, US govt tells UK court
Autonomy Trial Lynch fears US.gov will add yet more charges against him
Legal18 Jan 2022 | 50
Google and Facebook's top execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves
Latest iteration of Texas-led antitrust complaint against Google expands claims of bad behavior
Legal15 Jan 2022 | 42
Lawmakers propose TLDR Act because no one reads Terms of Service agreements
The bill calls for concise, machine readable summaries of how websites and apps use client data
Legal14 Jan 2022 | 36
Support specialist Rimini Street found in contempt of court for continued Oracle copyright infringements
It took two years for Big Red to find five breaches
Legal14 Jan 2022 | 12
Microsoft hires law firm to review sexual harassment policies, probe gender discrimination
Tech giant promises to create an implementation plan based on outcome
Legal14 Jan 2022 | 7
HMRC tool for measuring IR35 status is so great, employers are ditching it in their droves
Survey shows majority of UK firms have lost at least half of their contractors over tax reform
Legal13 Jan 2022 | 45
Software engineer jailed for 2 years after using RATs and crypters to steal underage victims' intimate pics
Another one who pleaded autism in mitigation
Legal12 Jan 2022 | 96
A slice is better than none: Apple gives in, allows third-party app billing systems in Korea, per local law
Company follows in the footsteps of its buddy Google
Legal12 Jan 2022 | 11
Bitcoin 'inventor' will face forgery claims over his Satoshi Nakamoto proof, rules High Court
COPA load of that
Legal06 Jan 2022 | 76
