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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EchoStar transferred billions of dollars’ worth of assets from Dish Network and its DBS subsidiary “out of reach of existing creditors, in exchange for nothing” in a “brazen series of related transactions” designed to protect controlling shareholder and Dish CEO Charlie Ergen, alleged a fraud complaint (docket 1:24-cv-03646) Monday by U.S. Bank Trust Co., National Association, in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Google is “self-preferencing” its YouTube videos in Google search results over links to searched-for videos on other online video platforms, alleged Rumble Canada's antitrust complaint Monday (docket 5:24-cv-02880) against Google and parent Alphabet in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose. The plaintiff claims damages of over $1 billion, “before trebling.”
Sprout Social, a developer of social media management platforms, made materially false and misleading statements and failed to disclose “material adverse facts” from Nov. 2 to May 2, leading to “artificially inflated” stock prices, alleged a securities fraud class action (docket 1:24-cv-03867) Monday in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois.
BookTix, a virtual box office for local community performances, conceals processing fees until the final moments of checkout, in violation of New York’s “all-in pricing” mandate, alleged a fraud class action Monday (docket 7:24-cv-03670) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in White Plains.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment, in leadership restructuring, elevates Hideaki Nishino to CEO of SIE’s Platform Business Group, and Hermen Hulst to CEO of its Studio Business Group, effective June 1; interim SIE CEO Hiroki Totoki advances to SIE chairman, in addition to his roles as Sony Group chief operating officer-chief financial officer
FleishmanHillard rehires Scott Radcliffe from Apple as global director-cybersecurity; he previously served as FleishmanHillard’s senior global data privacy and security expert before leading Apple’s cybersecurity communications
Open Geospatial Consortium taps Peter Rabley, co-founder of the data trust nonprofit Place, as CEO
Highway 9 Networks, cloud-based enterprise mobile networking company, hires Fortanix’s Faiyaz Shahpurwala, also former IBM, as chief operating and customer officer, and Mark Weiner, ex-F5 and Volterra, as chief marketing officer
Content studio Malka elevates Global Chief Operating Officer Chris Apostle and Senior Business Adviser Bill Davaris to co-CEOs, and hires Paige McCrensky, ex-Getty Images, as its first chief brand officer
Trulioo, identity verification platform, taps David Liu, ex-American Express, as senior vice president-fraud and risk
StackAdapt, multichannel advertising platform, appoints Ryan Nelsen, ex-Qualtrics, as chief marketing officer.
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