Class-Action Suit Against Apple, AT&T Gets OK
July 12, 2010
| 8:30 AM
From this morning's Earlybird:
• "A federal judge says a monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc.'s mobile phone unit can move forward as a class action," the AP reports. "An amended complaint filed in June 2008 takes issue with Apple's practice of 'locking' iPhones so they can only be used on AT&T's network, and its absolute control over what applications iPhone owners can and cannot install on the gadgets. The lawsuit also says Apple secretly made AT&T its exclusive iPhone partner in the U.S. for five years."
• "American technology companies are under close scrutiny in Germany," the New York Times reports. "Google is being investigated for having errantly collected personal Internet information like e-mail passwords while doing research for its Street View mapping service. Facebook is being investigated for collecting data on non-Facebook users from the mailing lists of active users. And Apple has been asked to explain what kind of information its latest iPhone 4 is storing on users and for how long."
• "China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it had renewed the Chinese operating license of Internet giant Google Inc, confirming an announcement made by the company on Friday," Reuters reports. "Guxiang, a company that operates Google's websites in China, was included in a list of more than 200 companies that had their licenses renewed, which was posted on the ministry's website."
• Meg Whitman paid "more than $1 million" for "a stake in a fledgling movie production firm started by none other than Mike Murphy, a very prominent and much-sought-after Republican strategist," the New York Times reports. "In the months before the deal was closed, Mr. Murphy had been flirting with working on the campaign of Ms. Whitman's future rival in the Republican primary for governor, Steve Poizner, the state's insurance commissioner. But he had an about-face."
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