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2.7KGDPR 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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2.1KShoe 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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3.0KRipple, 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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2.6KUK 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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2.2KBetting 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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1.6KYelp 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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3.8KWells 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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1.1KSEC: 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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1.7KExactis 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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1.8KGDPR 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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1.8KVisa, 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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1.2KRetailMeNot 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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2.5KBank 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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2.2KSupreme 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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3.1KUS 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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2.0KSilk 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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2.5KIs 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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1.9KVirtual 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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2.9KUSAA 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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3.2KSecond 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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3.5KSnap 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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1.9KWashington 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...
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1.3KState Street Corp. Ex-EVP Accused Of Wire Fraud
A former executive at State Street Corp. is set to stand trial for allegedly defrauding the bank’s clients by charging them secret...
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2.3KWill Dynamic Pricing Change How Automotive Parts are Sold?
Dynamic pricing has produced more than $1 billion in revenue for automakers over the last decade, according to a report from Reuters...
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3.2KSEC Investigates Former Heartland CEO For Possible Insider Trading
Federal investigators are looking into stock trades linked to the former CEO of the FinTech firm Heartland Payment Systems. According to The...
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Wells Fargo Settles Sales Scandal Lawsuit; To Pay $480M
Wells Fargo announced late last week that it has agreed to pay $480 million to settle a securities fraud class-action suit. In a press...
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4.3KRipple Gets Hit With Lawsuit Over XRP Tokens
Ripple Labs, the cryptocurrency startup behind the XRP tokens, is being accused in a new lawsuit of running a scam to raise...
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3.0KLendingClub Gets Sued By The FTC; Stock Hits Record Low
LendingClub, the online lender that was once a favorite of Wall Street investors, saw its stock hit a record low on Wednesday...
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Supreme Court Rules Arab Bank Cannot Be Sued For Financial Involvement In Terrorist Attacks
The Supreme Court has ruled that lawsuits filed by victims of terrorist attacks and their families against Arab Bank cannot proceed. According...
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3.6KWells Fargo Settles With Ecuadorian Bank Over 2015 Cyber Heist Case
Ecuador’s Banco del Austro and Wells Fargo have reached an out-of-court settlement over a 2015 cyber heist, and that suit could have...
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1.7KJPMorgan Hit With Lawsuit Over Crypto Transaction Fees
JPMorgan Chase is being sued in Manhattan federal court for allegedly charging surprise fees when it stopped allowing its customers to buy...
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1.0KMassachusetts Can Proceed With Lawsuit Against Equifax
A judge has ruled that the state of Massachusetts can move forward with its lawsuit against Equifax. According to Reuters, the suit...
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2.5KWells Fargo Predatory Lending Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed
A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit against Wells Fargo & Co. can proceed. The lawsuit accuses the third-largest U.S. bank...
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2.5KFrance Is Suing Google, Apple Over Their Dealings With Startups, Developers
Google and Apple are facing a lawsuit from France, which is seeking fines of $2.5 million for what the country says are...
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3.1KJudge Allows Much Of Yahoo Breach Suit To Go Forward
A U.S. district court in San Jose, California, ruled late last week that most of a lawsuit concerning Yahoo’s data breach, which...
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2.3KVenmo Settles Privacy Violations
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has reached a settlement with PayPal over the handling of privacy disclosures and money...
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4.2KBelgium Court Rules Against Facebook Again
Facebook in Europe was dealt a new blow after a judge ruled the company ran afoul of privacy laws. According to news...
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2.2KRabobank Pays $368M Fine Over Illicit Funds
Rabobank, a California unit of the Dutch cooperative, agreed Wednesday (Feb. 7) to turn over $368 million for processing funds that were...
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3.1KSilicon Valley Startup CEO Charged With Wire Fraud
The founder and CEO of a failed startup has pleaded guilty for defrauding former employees. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Isaac...
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3.6KATM ‘Jackpotting’ Hackers Hauled Into Court
The U.S. Justice Department has charged two men for allegedly hacking ATM machines in order to illegally obtain cash from them. According...
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5.2KSEC Goes After Leader Of $1.2B Ponzi Scheme
An independent management team has resigned from the Woodbridge Group of Companies after the SEC accused the firm of being a Ponzi...
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Wells Fargo’s Bid To Dismiss Predatory Lending Suit Rejected
Wells Fargo’s effort to toss out a lawsuit lodged by the city of Philadelphia failed, with the judge paving the way for...
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2.3KCongress Receives Petition To Make Cannabis Banking Legal
Congress has a new petition to review: This one is from a bipartisan group of 18 attorneys general from states that have...
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9.4KGoogle, Facebook Take FCC To Court Over Net Neutrality
Internet Association (IA), a lobbying group that represents the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix, is joining a lawsuit against the...
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32.6KTucker Gets 16-Year Sentence In Payday Lending Case
Race car driver and Kansas businessman Scott Tucker has been sentenced to 16 years and eight months in jail for crimes associated...
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4.0KSessions Takes A Hard Line On Cannabis
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has sent a directive to U.S. attorneys, taking back Obama-era directives that relaxed enforcement of federal pot laws...
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1.2KUber Sued Over Payment For Alleged Fraudulent Ads
Uber got slapped with a lawsuit from a British mobile advertising agency, aiming to get the ride-hailing company to pay bills that...
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4.0KKaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration Over Agency Ban
Kaspersky Lab, the security company that saw the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ban the use of its products within the confines...
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3.9KCeleb Cryptocurrency Fave Centra Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit
Centra, a startup that raised over $30 million this year through an ICO promoted by celebrities, has been hit with a class-action...
