Saturday, March 20, 2021

U.S. justice department accuses Google of dragging its feet in antitrust trial

In a joint filing late Thursday, the Justice Department said that Alphabet's Google had balked at some search terms that the government wanted it to use to locate relevant documents. The Justice Department estimated the request to Google would produce 4.85 million documents. https://ift.tt/3r4V2Tl

Jury tells Apple to pay $308.5 million for patent infringement

PMC, a licensing firm, had originally sued Apple in 2015 alleging the tech giant's iTunes service infringed seven of its patents. https://ift.tt/38X2k52

Unicorn to open 4-6 flagship Apple stores in India this fiscal

Unicorn, which operates under the brand name Uni, has 29 Apple stores across the country out of a total of 150 stores that sell Apple products. https://ift.tt/3lyiFlP

US safety agency reviewing 23 Tesla crashes, three from recent weeks

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed Thursday that it will send a team to investigate a recent Tesla crash in the Houston area. Four of the 27 NHTSA investigations have been completed and the results published. https://ift.tt/3cJ2nCA

Chinese military bans Tesla cars in its complexes on camera concerns: Sources

The order issued by the military advises Tesla owners to park their cars outside military property, they said, declining to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue. https://ift.tt/3vMknVp

Tesla would be shut down if its cars spied in China, elsewhere: Elon Musk

Tesla Inc chief executive Elon Musk said on Saturday his company would be shut down if its cars were used to spy, his first comments on news that China's military has banned Teslas from its facilities. https://ift.tt/3tBtI0s

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...