Posts Tagged ‘Lawsuit’

Facebook users are afraid of change, according to a USA Tod ay poll released in mid-October, which revealed that 56% of Facebook users did not like Facebook’s latest changes. With that being said, Facebook users are constantly growing by the day. What keeps current users with the social networking platform, and what drives new users towards it? The answers are endless, but we should not be looking at what brings users to the platform, instead we should be looking at what drives users away. Timeline, Facebook’s “new kind of profile,” could be the underlying answer to the question at hand.

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A group of nearly 27,000 South Koreans have filed a lawsuit against Apple for a whopping $26 million, claiming privacy violations on the collection of iPhone user location information. Apple spokesman Steve Park in Seoul has declined to comment on the situation.

Oracle is seeking major compensation i.e. around 50% in terms of ad revenues Google generated via Android mobile operating system. These hefty demands were made in the recent filing made this week by Oracle in conjunction with the companies’ ongoing intellectual property dispute with Google.

Google’s Android smartphone has become a Big Brother and knows more about the users, than their family and friends does. A federal class-action lawsuit filed by a Charleston attorney, has alleged Google and Android phone apps of keeping track of user’s personal information and selling them to advertising companies. According to the lawsuit, Android apps [...]

CatchOfTheDay, an Australian online retailing group, operates e-commerce site CatchOfTheDay.com.au and daily deal site Scoopon.com.au. The social shopping platform raised an undisclosed amount of funding. Estimates are around $80 million, valuing the company at $200 million.

“It’s not just the support issue, either,” Fagin goes on to say. “On one hand, they tell you not to ‘friend’ anyone you don’t already know. On the other, the site constantly bombards you with names of people that Facebook themselves suggests you should ‘friend’, as you already have multiple friends in common.”

If it ain’t one thing, it’s another: Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even given a chance to rest the one week he wasn’t being sued by the Winklevoss twins: the dark horse with the previously laughable case has now earned the title ‘most likely to take a whole lot of Zuck-bucks.’

By this time everyone is familiar with Rebecca Black, her infectious hit song ‘Friday’ and Ark Music Factory, the company that her mother paid to write the song and produce the music video for her. But it seems that now that Rebecca’s overnight fame has set in, money is the big thing on everyone’s minds and Rebecca and her mother may be suing Ark over the song.

Another social networking site is back in court to face accusations it violated users’ privacy by leaking private information to third-party advertisers. The lawsuit may be new for LinkedIn, but it’s a situation, and a claim, we’ve seen before.

How does an Internet search giant named Google tell users that it agreed to a settlement of $8.5 million over privacy breaches related to its Buzz social networking program. By Gmail, of course.