Reported Biden FTC pick Lina Khan a prominent Big Tech critic
President Biden will nominate Lina Khan, a prominent antitrust scholar and critic of Big Tech companies, to serve on the five-member Federal Trade Commission, according to multiple reports on Tuesday.
Bezos wins small portion of legal fees sought in clash with girlfriend Lauren Sanchez's brother
A Los Angeles judge awarded Amazon founder Jeff Bezos a fraction of the legal fees he sought to recover following a lengthy court battle with his girlfriend’s brother, Michael Sanchez.
Pentagon threatens to walk from $10B contract with Microsoft over legal disputes, bias allegations
The deal is worth $10B over a decade, which set off a frenzied contract process between over a dozen companies.
Dolce&Gabbana seeks over $600M damages from US fashion blog over boycott in Asia
The Milan fashion house Dolce&Gabbana has filed a defamation suit in an Italian court seeking over $600 million in damages from two U.S. fashion bloggers who reposted anti-Asian comments attributed to one of the designers that led to a boycott by Asian consumers.
SEC suing AT&T for telling analysts nonpublic information
The Securities and Exchange Commission is suing AT&T and three of its investor relations executives for telling Wall Street analysts about the telecom giant's sales data before it released quarterly results.
Boy Scouts offer sex-abuse settlement, aiming for end to bankruptcy
The Boy Scouts of America are offering cash, artwork and other assets to sex-abuse victims under a bankruptcy plan filed Monday, an opening gambit by the youth group to move past the failures to protect children that have threatened its standing in American society.
Former Amazon Studios executive who wouldn't fly coach sues for wrongful termination
Amazon Studios' former global head of visual effects, Marc Sadeghi, was terminated from the company in December for "multiple policy infractions," including misusing company funds by upgrading to "premium economy" on a 14-hour New Zealand flight
ByteDance reaches $92 million settlement with U.S. TikTok users over data privacy concerns
Under the proposed terms of the agreement, TikTok will no longer collect or store a user's biometric information, including facial characteristics, or track users' GPS data. The company will also be prohibited from storing U.S. user data in databases outside of the country.
A Theranos database is useless. What happened?
Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes is sparring with federal prosecutors over an inaccessible database recording millions of the company's blood tests, arguing the government can't prove the test results were unreliable without the database's information.
Elizabeth Holmes' attorneys blame prosecutors for missing or 'destroyed' evidence
Attorneys for Elizabeth Holmes have slammed prosecutors in her fraud case for their efforts to show the ousted Theranos former “destroyed” evidence, arguing instead that the government “sat on their hands” failed to “preserve” the data.
Steak 'N Shake in fast food fight avoids bankruptcy, but fries Fortress
Steak 'n Shake Inc. sued lender Fortress Investment Group LLC after the burger chain paid off debt coming due to avoid bankruptcy, accusing Fortress of misusing confidential information to mount a takeover bid.
Calif. woman blames COVID infection on husband's employer after couple tests positive: lawsuit
A California woman has sued her husband’s employer because she believes he caught the novel coronavirus at work and brought it home with him – ultimately infecting her, too.
Facebook to expand effort to combat climate misinformation, label posts
Facebook announced on Thursday that it would ramp up its efforts to counter misinformation about climate change.
Cuomo COVID nursing home cover-up ‘only the beginning’: Ex-NY lieutenant governor
Former New York Lieutenant Gov. Betsy McCaughey believes more information about corruption in the Cuomo administration will start coming out now that Democrat colleagues are starting to “break.”
Boeing directors Susan Schwab, former U.S. Trade Rep & ex-Medtronic chair Collins to retire
Two longtime Boeing Co. directors are stepping down as the aerospace giant's board undergoes more changes in the wake of the 737 MAX crisis,
Embattled Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes doubles down on efforts to keep 'wealth, spending, and lifestyle' from fraud case
Attorneys representing embattled Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes have fired back again in an attempt to prevent prosecutors from detailing the one-time billionaire’s “wealth, spending, and lifestyle” as they try to prove a motive for her alleged fraud.
NY attorney general sues Amazon over alleged COVID-19 workplace safety failures
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed suit against Amazon on Tuesday, accusing the e-commerce giant of failing to adequately protect its frontline employees during the coronavirus pandemic.
Judge lets Revlon lenders keep Citi’s botched $500M payment
Citi, which has blamed the snafu on human error, argued that recipients knew right away they had been paid in error.
Cuomo should apologize for COVID nursing home 'illegal' cover-up, ex-NY Gov. Pataki says
Former New York Gov. George Pataki is calling for a bipartisan investigation with subpoena power over the alleged nursing home scandal.
Bristol-Myers, Sanofi ordered to pay Hawaii $834 million over Plavix warning label
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and Sanofi SA were ordered by a U.S. judge on Monday to pay more than $834 million to the state of Hawaii for failing to properly warn non-white patients of health risks from its blood thinner Plavix.


















