Wireless internet service provider Bloosurf, valued at $30 million in 2021, has lost "half its customers" and "significant" revenue and cash flow due to T-Mobile's interference, alleged Bloosurf’s complaint Wednesday (docket 8:24-cv-01047) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt in which it seeks $116 million in damages.
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The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), which calls itself “the oldest nonprofit newsroom in the country,” alleges that Microsoft and OpenAI copied CIR’s “valuable content” to train their AI models, and did so “without CIR’s permission or authorization, and without any compensation to CIR,” said its complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-04872) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
The statute authorizing the federal TikTok ban -- the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act -- is unconstitutional, and should be blocked, said the Electronic Freedom Foundation, TechFreedom and five other nonprofits in an amicus brief Wednesday (docket 24-1113) in the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit.
BorrowMoney.com’s reported revenue for three quarters in FY 2019 was a “figment” of sole officer and majority shareholder Aldo Piscitello’s “imagination and invention,” alleged the SEC's lawsuit Wednesday (docket 0:24-cv-61118) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida.
Digital media company Meet Kevin sued CNN parent Warner Bros. Discovery for refusing to offer social media companies broadcast licenses for the CNN presidential debate that was set for Thursday between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, said an antitrust complaint Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-05441) in U.S. District Court for Central California.
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Zimperium, mobile data security company, hires Michael Williams, ex-KnowBe4 and former Symantec, as chief marketing officer
Mythic, AI processor company, taps Taner Ozcelik, ex-Luminar Technologies, also former On Semiconductor and Nvidia, as its new CEO
Teradata, cloud analytics and data platform for AI, hires Craig-Hallum Capital’s Chad Bennett as senior vice president-investor relations and corporate development
C5i, AI and analytics company, adds Harvard Business School professor Ananth Raman to its strategic advisory board
Excellere Partners, private equity firm, promotes Ryan Revolinski to vice president and Jenna Heinemeyer to associate, and hires Mark Sparrow, ex-KSL Capital Partners, as vice president-finance
Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia elects Regan Zambri attorney Emily Lagan to a three-year team on its board.
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