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The 5 most obnoxious things from Devin Nunes’s lawsuit against Twitter

sudshr47March 19, 2019

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Devin Nunes, Republican congressman from California and Trump lapdog, is suing Twitter for a deeply hilarious reason.

The thrust of the Nunes’ lawsuit is that two parody accounts — @DevinNunesMom and @DevinCow — defamed Nunes with the assistance of the third defendant, strategist Liz Mair. Twitter is also named in the suit for just letting it happen. It also mentions “shadow banning,” a false claim frequently made by conservatives on Twitter that the platform suppresses their tweets.

The entire filing is about 40 pages and can be read here, but below is a selection of the parts that made us el oh el the most.  Read more…

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Qualcomm won a $31 million patent infringement case against Apple

sudshr47March 17, 2019

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Qualcomm has won a victory against Apple in a sideshow to the main legal struggle between between the two tech giants.

A San Diego jury has found that Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents regarding iPhone startup and battery life, according to Reuters. The jury has ordered that Apple pay $1.41 per iPhone with patent infringement, which comes to about $31 million.

Apple and Qualcomm are engaged in an ongoing legal battle regarding Qualcomm’s policy of charging intellectual property licensing fees on top of the actual prices for its smartphone chips. Apple has brought a lawsuit against Qualcomm for $1 billion alleging that Qualcomm is charging for IP that it has no right to — that case goes to court in April.  Read more…

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New conflict evidence surfaces in JEDI cloud contract procurement process

sudshr47February 20, 2019

For months, the drama has been steady in the Pentagon’s decade long, $10 billion JEDI cloud contract procurement process. This week the plot thickened when the DOD reported that it has found new evidence of a possible conflict of interest, and has reopened its internal investigation into the matter. “DOD can confirm that new information […]

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Singapore activist found guilty of hosting ‘illegal assembly’ via Skype

sudshr47January 4, 2019

An ongoing case in Singapore is testing the legal boundaries of virtual conferences. A court in the Southeast Asian city-state this week convicted human rights activist Jolovan Wham of organizing a public assembly via Skype without a permit and refusing to sign his statement when ordered by the police. Wham will be sentenced on January 23 […]

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Washington, D.C. Attorney General sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal

sudshr47December 19, 2018

Facebook users might have already moved on to the company’s next notable outrage, but the company is still answering for its privacy missteps from earlier this year. Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine filed a lawsuit against Facebook on Wednesday, alleging that the company has not fulfilled its responsibility to protect user data. Racine’s office […]

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Sean Rad, early Tinder employees, sue Tinder owners IAC/Match for billions

sudshr47August 14, 2018

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They call it selling out for a reason.

On Tuesday, ten Tinder co-founders and early employees filed a lawsuit against the dating app’s overlords, InterActiveCorp (IAC) and Match Group. The plaintiffs, who include co-founders Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, and Jonathan Badeen, allege that the corporate owners deliberately sought to manipulate the valuation of Tinder, in order to lower the pay-out price for these early employees’ stock options, and that it restructured Tinder within Match to deny them future pay-outs. 

Gibson Dunn is representing the ten plaintiffs.

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The Fyre Fest guy is still out here conning people

sudshr47June 13, 2018

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Just when you thought it was safe, the epic millennial influencer debacle known as Fyre Festival is back in the news for, surprise, fraud.

Billy McFarland, the low-rent scam artist responsible for the festival disaster heard ’round the internet, is back in trouble for conning people again. This time, McFarland is charged with selling fake tickets to mega-festivals and events. 

GRIFTER SEASON, CONTINUED: Billy McFarland, the guy behind Fyre Festival (remember? https://t.co/LjkZx1IEym), is being charged with wire fraud and money laundering for a separate ticket scheme he allegedly started AFTER FYRE FEST pic.twitter.com/YPcNTcSEks

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A look back at Uber’s hellish year

sudshr47January 1, 2018

 We endured plenty of the drama Uber packed in for every five-hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes of 2017 — and what a year! From protests to a major sexual harassment probe, the ousting of co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick, the crowning of new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the promising hints of that long-awaited IPO and an on-going lawsuit with Google over self-driving cars.… Read More

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