Amazon, which has been sued in the past over knock-off goods sold on its third-party marketplace, is joining Valentino to pursue an alleged counterfeiter of the Italian luxury fashion brand’s… Read More
Follow-up: Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice… Read More
Baoke Zhang, a 35-year-old software engineer at ride hailing giant Lyft, is facing bank and wire fraud charges for what federal prosecutors called a “brazen scheme” to defraud the U.S.… Read More
Amazon is suing two companies for “widespread tech support fraud,” alleging that they tricked new users of Echo speakers and other Alexa devices into paying for purported technical support through… Read More
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who led a coalition of more than a dozen states in a challenge to the $26.5 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, announced a settlement with… Read More
Amazon claims that Microsoft’s winning bid for the Pentagon’s coveted $10 billion cloud computing contract should have been disqualified after the Redmond company proposed using a type of data storage… Read More
Is this why Sonos decided to sue Google rather than going after Amazon? Our search of U.S. patent records this afternoon, following news that the high-tech speaker maker is suing… Read More
F5 Networks says it has taken steps to ensure the security of the master software builds for NGINX, the popular web server technology acquired earlier this year by the Seattle-based… Read More
What happens to Expedia if airlines and hotels opt to go it alone? The online travel giant has been facing that ominous question through a series of recent contract negotiations… Read More
Sheryl Cababa is a user experience designer with technology and product design firm Artefact in Seattle who studies the impact of social media on people, communities, and society. One of… Read More
A judge ordered Comcast Corp. to pay $9.1 million in penalties for violating Washington state’s Consumer Protection Act — a fraction of the amount that the Washington State Attorney General… Read More
Amazon’s joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase is just getting started, but it’s already rattling health care giants. Earlier this month, UnitedHealth Group filed a lawsuit against a… Read More
A former Microsoft employee has filed a lawsuit against the company, as well as her former manager and an additional unnamed employee, alleging that she was discriminated against based on… Read More
Elon Musk has agreed to step down as Tesla’s chairman for three years but will remain CEO of the electric car maker, under the terms of documents filed today to… Read More
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed suit against Facebook and Google on Monday, alleging that the tech giants aren’t complying with a state law requiring them to disclose basic… Read More
A lawsuit against internet provider CenturyLink and AT&T-owned DirecTV alleges the companies fail to adequately protect personal customer data — to the point that it can be found through a simple… Read More
Updated below with IBM comment. IBM has settled a lawsuit with one of its longtime human resources executives who jumped ship to become Microsoft’s new chief diversity officer, according to… Read More
Microsoft is throwing its support behind a bill that would prevent employers from requiring arbitration for sexual harassment claims, saying it’s the first Fortune 100 company to back the bipartisan… Read More
A suit filed against Redbox this week by Walt Disney Co. targets the movie rental kiosk company’s practice of reselling digital movie codes included with physical copies of DVDs and… Read More
Ryanair, the budget airline serving Europe, Africa and the Middle East, is accusing Expedia of routinely and repeatedly scraping information from its website, allegedly violating the airline’s terms of service… Read More
A King County Superior Court judge has dismissed a wrongful termination case against Microsoft filed by two former employees in 2015. Judge Veronica Galván ruled against George (Eric) Engstrom and John… Read More
Microsoft says it’s dropping a suit against the U.S. Justice Department that targeted a tactic commonly used by prosecutors to prevent tech companies from informing their customers when investigators seek access… Read More
Amazon has filed arbitration demands against several book authors, publishers and marketers, alleging that they abused the Kindle Direct Publishing system to artificially inflate their profits and sales rankings. The… Read More
The U.S. Justice Department petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court late Friday to overturn a ruling that blocked its warrant to obtain email from a Microsoft customer stored in the company’s… Read More
TACOMA, Wash. — Cody Meyer, 23, was a flagger in bright yellow clothes for a private company installing fiber-optic cable on a road in Issaquah, Wash. on Dec. 15, 2015. A man… Read More
A former employee at Avvo, the Seattle-based online legal directory, says she was fired after rejecting advances from a co-worker, according to a suit filed this week in U.S. District… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Using a smartphone or other device in almost any form while driving is on its way to becoming illegal in Washington state. Only a couple minor steps remain.… Read More
Companies that bring software engineers and other highly skilled workers into the U.S. under H-1B visas will not be able to pay for faster processing of their petitions, under a temporary suspension of… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Representatives of Seattle City Light and other public utilities spoke Thursday in favor of a bill by Rep Gael Tarleton, D-Seattle, that would let public utilities seek private-sector… Read More
The government needs a warrant to search your home or listen to your phone calls and, soon, it may also need one to view your old email. The U.S. House… Read More