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1.9KRipple, XRP Investors Lawsuit Heads To Federal Court
Ripple, the cryptocurrency startup behind the XRP tokens, and its affiliated defendants have filed documents to move a consolidated class action lawsuit to...
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1.9KAT&T, T-Mobile Sued Over Mobile Crypto Thefts
Silver Miller — America’s leading cryptocurrency investor law firm — announced it has filed lawsuits against AT&T and T-Mobile on behalf of crypto asset...
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1.5KAirbnb Landlords Get $2.25M Fine For Illegal San Fran Rentals
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced that two local Airbnb landlords will pay $2.25 million in penalties and investigation costs for...
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2.9KWinklevoss Twins Sue Charlie Shrem Over Bitcoin Theft
The Winklevoss twins have filed a lawsuit against Charlie Shrem, accusing him of pocketing funds to purchase bitcoin for himself. The New...
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3.8KWalmart Sues Synchrony Financial
Walmart filed a lawsuit against Synchrony Financial, its credit card issuer for years, contending a breach of contract. The Wall Street Journal,...
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1.8KCarl Icahn Sues Dell Over Plan To Go Public
Dell Technologies got slapped with a lawsuit by activist investor Carl Icahn Thursday (Nov. 1) over what the investor contends is a lack...
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3.5KSoFi Settles With FTC Over Claims Of Deceptive Advertising
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that online student loan refinancer Social Finance (SoFi) has agreed to stop misrepresenting how much money...
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5.3KYahoo Fined $50M Over Data Breach
Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 million in damages over the biggest security breach in history. According to the Washington Post, the...
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5.8KIn UK, P2P Firm Seeks Help from Regulators
In the United Kingdom, a peer-to-peer (P2P) property lender has taken what the Financial Times called “the unusual step” of asking a...
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1.9KNewsweek Parent Co Defrauds Lenders In $10M Scheme
Newsweek’s former parent company has been charged with defrauding lenders out of millions of dollars in order to help the media organization...
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2.1KApple iPhone X User Forced By FBI To Unlock Phone With Face
An Apple iPhone X user was forced by law enforcement to unlock his phone with his face. According to a report in...
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1.8KOpenTable Employee Charged With Making Fake Reservations At Rival Service
OpenTable employee Steven Addison was charged by federal prosecutors with making fake reservations on a rival’s website at a time when he...
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2.6KFraudsters Accused In $364M Ponzi Debt Scheme
Federal prosecutors have charged three men who allegedly ran a $364 million Ponzi scheme. According to Reuters, the men — Kevin Merrill...
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3.7KVisa, Mastercard Settle $6.2B Swipe Fee Lawsuit
A $6.2 billion settlement has been reached by Visa, Mastercard and several U.S. banks over a suit brought by merchants over what...
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1.7KOCC FinTech Efforts in Legal Crosshairs, While GDPR Still Lags
The battle over FinTechs and national banking charters is about to get a bit more heated. New York state is suing the...
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2.6KJudge Says US Securities Law Applies To Crypto Fraud Cases
A federal judge has ruled that prosecutors can move forward with a case against a man accused of defrauding investors in two...
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2.0KSports Betting Moves Forward In The U.S. — With or Without ‘Integrity Fees’
The U.S. sports betting wave could become one of the hottest payments and commerce trends of 2018, with lawmakers and gamblers bringing...
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1.8KSony Hack Programmer Charged With Cybercrime Conspiracy
The U.S. Justice Department announced that it has charged North Korea’s Park Jin Hyok (박진혁; aka Jin Hyok Park and Pak Jin...
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2.2KGDPR Thins The Herd For Online And Mobile Advertising
Don’t cry for Facebook. Sure, the social media platform said it lost one million active users from Europe after the General Data...
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3.0KYoung Bitcoin Trader Indicted On Money Laundering Charges
Charges of money laundering and illegal money transmission have been levied against a 21-year-old bitcoin dealer in California. According to several sites,...
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1.6KTesla, Elon Musk Sued Over Go-Private Tweets
Tesla and its chief executive Elon Musk have been hit with two lawsuits by investors who are accusing Musk and his company...
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1.8KManafort Case Delayed As Prosecution Set to Call Final Witnesses
The judge in the federal tax fraud case against former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort called for a break in the case,...
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2.2KOpening Bets: MGM Deals Foreshadow New Gambling Culture
Not quite three months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state bans on sports betting, MGM Resorts International has signed deals...
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1.2KAlleged Floor Trader Scheme Haunts NYSE
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has accused a floor trader of being involved in a kickback scheme involving an unnamed broker....
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2.3KIBM Wins $83M In Patent Infringement Suit Against Groupon
International Business Machines was awarded an $83 million judgment in a patent court case lodged against daily deal website operator Groupon. Reuters,...
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4.1KVirtual Cards Run Into Payroll Card-Like Legal Troubles
In recent years, payroll cards have run into controversy as lawsuits and lawmakers scrutinize fees that often come with the tool. Employees...
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4.3KIBM Wants $167M From Groupon In Patent Infringement Case
International Business Machines is seeking $167 million from Groupon, contending in a lawsuit that the daily deal website operator used IBM’s patented...
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3.7KGDPR Floods Business With Consumer Questions
Look at this way, even if it’s probably far too optimistic: The post-GDPR world is providing chances for companies to engage their...
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3.5KShoe Company Rockport Likely Will Be Sold To A Private Equity Firm
The Rockport Group, the ailing comfort shoe company, could soon have a new owner. Charlesbank Capital Partners LLC, a private equity firm,...
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4.1KRipple, Ripple CEO Served Third Securities Fraud Lawsuit
Three and counting: Ripple, the cryptocurrency startup behind the XRP tokens, has reportedly been hit with a third lawsuit alleging securities fraud....
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3.8KUK Court Sends Retailer/Credit Card Fee Fight To Competition Tribunal
The U.K.’s Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday (July 4) that a fight between U.K. retailers and credit card companies over fees has...
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3.5KBetting On Digital Identities As Online Sports Gambling Takes Off
The idea remains as simple as ever: Put down money on a team or athlete because of fandom, a hunch or a...
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Yelp Wins Court Ruling About Negative Online Reviews
A recent California Supreme Court decision that essentially allows a negative Yelp post to stand about a lawyer could help determine how...
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4.7KWells Fargo Hit With Lawsuit Over Financing Fees
Wells Fargo is facing a new lawsuit, this time from the Texas jeweler J. Edwards Jewelry Distributing and the company’s president, John Silverman,...
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2.2KSEC: Ex-Equifax Manager Guilty Of Insider Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it has charged a former Equifax manager with engaging in insider trading before the company announced its...
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6.2KExactis Data Breach Sparks Class Action Lawsuit
The first class action lawsuit against Exactis has been filed in response to the company’s massive data breach that exposed the private information...
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GDPR Sparks Privacy Regulation Efforts In The U.S.
Everyone’s always talking about online privacy, but this past week or so has brought a meaningful uptick in that ongoing discussion, including...
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3.4KVisa, Mastercard May Reach Settlement In Card Swipe Fee Suit
More than a decade after merchants brought a class-action suit against Mastercard, Visa and card-issuing banks in 2005, a settlement between the...
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2.4KRetailMeNot Sues Honey Science Corp. For Patent Infringement
RetailMeNot announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Honey Science Corp. RetailMeNot, a leading savings destination connecting consumers with...
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3.8KBank Of America Accused Of Aiding $102M Ponzi Scheme
Bank of America has been accused in a lawsuit of providing more than 100 accounts, used to carry out a $102 million...
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3.0KSupreme Court: Amex Anti-Steering Does Not Run Afoul Of Antitrust Law
And so, the two-sided market lives on. In a ruling Monday morning (June 25), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled...
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3.9KUS Supreme Court Gives The Green Light For Online Sales Taxes
States can collect sales taxes from online retailers thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Thursday (June 21) that addressed one...
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2.7KSilk Road Mentor Being Extradited To US
Five years after Silk Road shut down, one of its alleged advisers is being extradited to the U.S. to face newly unsealed...
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3.7KIs The GDPR Coming To The US?
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? If so, some European regulators might like what’s going on with California in regards...
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2.5KVirtual Currency Case Could Determine CFTC’s Power Over Crypto
A case involving virtual currency My Big Coin could determine whether the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has the power to...
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Could A Bank-On-Bank Patent War Be Looming?
A recently filed federal lawsuit over remote deposit capture technology (RDC) could signal the start of a wider patent-infringement struggle among banks,...
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3.9KUSAA Sues Wells Fargo Over RDC Technology
USAA, the insurance company and bank serving current and former military members and their families, filed a federal lawsuit against Wells Fargo...
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4.1KSecond Lawsuit Says XRP Is A Security Controlled By Ripple
Distributed ledger startup Ripple is facing another lawsuit over its XRP cryptocurrency. According to CoinDesk, court records show that Vladi Zakinov filed...
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4.9KSnap Shareholders Can Pursue Lawsuit
Snap, the maker of the disappearing messaging app Snapchat, saw a court ruling that gave investors the green light to pursue a...
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2.3KWashington AG Sues Google, Facebook Over Political Ads
The Washington Attorney General is suing Facebook and Google over political ads that ran in the state. According to TechCrunch, both sites...
