Google Delays Mandating Play Store Payments Rule in India to April 2022TechCrunch – October 4, 2020 Google  is postponing to April 2022 the enforcement of its new Play Store billing rule in India, days after more than 150 startups in the world’s second largest internet market forged an informal coalition to express concerns over the 30% charge the Android-maker plans to mandate on its store and started to explore an alternative marketplace for their apps. [read post]

  Cyber-attacks involving the theft of intellectual property can result in a company’s immediate or even permanent loss of revenue and reputation; cyber-attacks involving denial of services (such as a website being shut down by nefarious hackers) can disrupt or forever diminish consumer or customer confidence; cyber-attacks involving exfiltration of private company emails can have a tumultuous impact upon senior management and create an international uproar; cyber-attacks… [read post]

  Regardless of how they are counted, the coronavirus-related securities lawsuits tended to fall into one of three categories: first, the lawsuit filed against companies that experienced coronavirus outbreaks within company facilities (such as cruise ship lines and private prison systems); second, companies that had sought to tout their ability to profit from the coronavirus outbreak (such as vaccine developers, diagnostic testing services,  manufacturers of personal protective… [read post]

Robo-Signing KILLS… First the facts of the matter, as reported: Tracy Lawrence was only 43 years old when it appears she took her own life after blowing the whistle on a foreclosure scheme involving “robo-signing,”  which was implemented by a company used by most banks when repossessing homes, Lender Processing Services (“LPS”), based in Jacksonville, Florida. [read post]

The current filing patterns can also inform the insurers’ efforts to try to determine the profit-making price for their insurance product. [read post]