An Amazon Prime subscriber has a significant problem with the company’s implementation of ads on Prime Video and filed a class action lawsuit on Friday challenging the move.The plaintiff, who lives in California, leveled allegations of misleading advertising and consumer protection law breaches against Amazon in connection to its “unfair” change to ads on Prime Video. The court filing was published and earlier reported by The Hollywood Reporter.The lawsuit comes about a week and a half after the company st ...

Republican FCC Commission Brendan Carr said the agency should investigate Apple over its move to block the “Beeper Mini” app that allowed Android users to access iMessage.Carr – a frequent critic of Apple and other Big Tech firms – expressed concern that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company had violated the Federal Communications Commission’s Part 14 rules.” The rules require that “advanced communications services” must be accessible to people with disabilities.“Beeper bridged the “blue bubble-green bubble” ...

Nicole Shanahan, a lawyer and the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, was reportedly a driving force behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s $7 million presidential campaign ad during this year’s Super Bowl.Shanahan – whose divorce from Brin was finalized last fall after rumors she had an affair with his billionaire friend Elon Musk – revealed that she donated $4 million to the super PAC responsible for the ad, American Values 2024.The prominent Democratic donor told The New York Times that her donation was s ...

A woman filed a class-action lawsuit against sex toy giant Adam and Eve for allegedly handing over personal information about her provocative searches to third-party websites.The plaintiff, identified in court documents only as “Jane Doe,” argued in a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last week that Adam and Eve disclosed her “sexual preferences, sexual orientation, sexual practices, sexual fetishes, sex toy preferences, lubricant preferences and search terms” with Google Analytics without her ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sold around 12 million shares of the online retail and cloud services firm for roughly $2 billion, according to a company filing on Friday, soon after laying out a plan to sell his shares over the next year.The sale took place on Wednesday and Thursday, the filings showed.Last week, Amazon said that Bezos would sell up to 50 million shares in the firm.The sale plan, which is subject to certain conditions, was adopted on Nov. 8, 2023, and would be completed by Jan. 31, 2025, accordi ...

A new group of Wall Street firms has agreed to pay more than $81 million in civil penalties to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges of record-keeping failures, the regulator said Friday.The settlements with broker-dealers and investment advisers, including Oppenheimer and US Bancorp, are the latest in a multi-year initiative by the SEC to investigate how registered financial firms handle employees’ work-related communications on personal devices and apps, such as WhatsApp.“The SEC’s investigat ...

The owner of more than 60 local TV stations that saw its stock hammered after this week’s stunning news of a joint venture to create a sports bundle slammed Wall Street investors for overreacting.EW Scripps CEO Adam Symson, who saw the company’s stock sink more than 27% after Fox, Disney and Warner Bros Discovery announced the standalone service Wednesday, played down the impact it will have on local affiliates.“Affiliates are going to be compensated for being carried along,” Symson told CNBC.“It’s not the ...

A new streaming giant that will combine the sports assets of Fox, Disney’s ESPN and Warner Bros Discovery is poised to reshuffle the TV industry – and experts say the big loser will likely be the cable business.The yet-to-be named standalone service, slated to launch this fall, will account for roughly 55% of the sports rights in the US, according to a Citigroup analyst. It won’t stream NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” or NFL games airing on CBS, which this year will broadcast the Super Bowl.Nevertheless, exp ...

Meta has suspended the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei due to what the company calls “repeated violations” of its “dangerous organizations and individuals policy.”Khamenei was booted from the popular social media platforms following his repeated calls to “wipe Israel off the map.”Iran is a sworn enemy of Israel, which has been engaged in warfare against Hamas after the Palestinian terrorist organization’s Oct. 7 assault which left nearly 1,200 people dead.News of Meta ...

Chipotle customers in California should prepare for “significant” price hikes after the state recently approved minimum wage increases for fast food workers, one of the company’s top executives told shareholders this week.Jack Hartung, Chipotle’s chief financial and administrative officer, told investors on an earnings call on Tuesday that the price hikes are necessary to keep up with increasing labor costs.“We know we have to take something as a significant increase when you talk about a 20%-ish increase ...