Latest Apple Headlines
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Apple Unfairly Fired UK Worker Who Was Part Toxic Workplace Culture, Judge Says
Jun 26 2024 // Apple Inc. unfairly fired an employee for making racist comments that were part of a toxic workplace culture at one of its London stores, according to a UK court ruling. Apple’s investigation, before firing Timothy...
Apple Accused in Lawsuit of Underpaying Female Workers in California
Jun 14 2024 // Apple on Thursday was hit with a proposed class action accusing the tech giant of paying more than 12,000 female employees in California less than men with comparable jobs. The lawsuit filed in state court in San Francisco...
Washington Contractor, Grower Face $650K in Fines After Worker Dies in Apple Storage Room
Jun 3 2024 // Two Washington companies face a combined $650,000 in fines for violations in connection with a worker who died from asphyxiation after entering an apple storage facility where the oxygen had been removed from the air. The...
Washington Contractor, Grower Face $650K in Fines After Worker Dies in Apple Storage Room
May 17 2024 // Two Washington companies face a combined $650,000 in fines for violations in connection with a worker who died from asphyxiation after entering an apple storage facility where the oxygen had been removed from the air. The...
Apple Warns of ‘Mercenary Spyware Attack’ on Users in India, 91 Other Countries
Apr 15 2024 // Apple Inc has warned its users in India and ninety-one other countries that they were possible victims of a “mercenary spyware attack,” according to a threat notification email that was sent to targeted...
Tesla Settles Case Over Fatal Autopilot Crash of Apple Engineer
Apr 9 2024 // Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a 2018 car crash that killed an Apple engineer after his Model X, operating on Autopilot, swerved off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday. The settlement was made...
Consumers Sue Apple, Taking Page From US Justice Department Lawsuit
Mar 26 2024 // Apple has been hit with a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the smartphone market, piggybacking on a sweeping antitrust case lodged by the U.S. Justice Department and 15 states last...
Apple Antitrust Suit Mirrors Strategy That Beat Microsoft, but Tech Industry Has Changed
Mar 22 2024 // The U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple draws on the watershed 1998 case that broke Microsoft’s stranglehold on desktop software, but that may prove to be an imperfect blueprint for addressing...
Apple, Meta, Google to Face EU Digital Markets Act Probes: Sources
Mar 22 2024 // Apple, Meta Platforms and Alphabet’s Google are set to be investigated for potential violations of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) that could lead to hefty fines by the end of the year, according...
Justice Department Sues Apple in Antitrust Case Over iPhone
Mar 21 2024 // The US Justice Department and 16 attorneys general sued Apple Inc., accusing the iPhone maker of violating antitrust laws by blocking rivals from accessing hardware and software features on its popular devices. The suit,...
Apple, Investors Reach $490 Million Settlement in Fraud Case
Mar 18 2024 // Apple Inc. reached a $490 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of investors who accused Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook of misleading them in 2018 about the company’s sales prospects. Cook...
Apple Must Face Suit Claiming AirTags Are Weapon of Stalkers
Mar 18 2024 // Apple Inc. lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its AirTag devices help stalkers track their victims. US District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled Friday that three plaintiffs in the class-action suit...
Apple Hit With $2B EU Antitrust Fine in Spotify Case, Will Appeal
Mar 4 2024 // Brussels fined Apple 1.84 billion euros ($2 billion) on Monday, the iPhone maker’s first ever EU antitrust penalty, for preventing Spotify and other music streaming services from informing users of payment options...
Apple Resumes Sale of Watches After Appeals Court Lifts Ban
Dec 28 2023 // Apple Inc. said it would put its latest smartwatch models back on sale in its US retail stores Wednesday after it won a court ruling in a patent fight, providing a quick reprieve for its $17 billion business. The company...
Apple to Fight Watch Ban in Court After White House Declines to Act
Dec 27 2023 // Apple Inc., seeking to defend a business that generates roughly $17 billion a year, is appealing a US sales ban of its smartwatches after the White House refused to overturn the measure. Apple will challenge the ban —...
Apple to Halt US Sales of Series 9, Ultra 2 Smartwatches Over Patent Dispute
Dec 19 2023 // Apple said on Monday it would pause sales of its Series 9 and Ultra 2 smartwatches in the United States from this week, as it deals with a patent dispute over the technology that enables the blood oxygen feature on the...
Apple-Backed Study Finds Rise in Data Breaches as iPhone Maker Defends Encryption
Dec 12 2023 // In the first nine months of 2023, U.S. data breaches increased by 20% compared to the full year 2022, according to a new study that was commissioned by Apple. The iPhone maker paid for the study, which was conducted by...
US Labor Board Files Complaint Against Mozilla for Refusing to Hire Apple Activist
Nov 27 2023 // When Cher Scarlett began speaking up about labor issues at Apple Inc., she knew she was at risk of losing her software engineering job, but was confident she could find another. Yet two years after her departure from the...
Mass London Lawsuit Against Apple Over iPhone Batteries Can Proceed, Tribunal Rules
Nov 2 2023 // Apple Inc. on Wednesday lost a bid to block a mass London lawsuit worth up to $2 billion which accuses the tech giant of hiding defective batteries in millions of iPhones. The lawsuit was brought by British consumer...
Apple Supplier Pegatron to Halt Assembly at India Plant for Second Day After Fire
Sep 26 2023 // Apple supplier Pegatron has told its factory workers not to report for work on Tuesday, halting the assembly of iPhones for a second straight day at its south India factory where a fire broke out on Sunday, three sources...
