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  • Daniel Ek, co-founder and chief executive officer of Spotify.Tech

    Spotify used this one word to justify a 50% cut in royalties, music creator lawsuit alleges

    By Robert Burnson, Ashley Carman, and others
  • (EDITORS NOTE: Retransmission with alternate crop.) Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., at the Tesla automotive plant in Gruenheide, Germany, on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. The power supply at Tesla’s electric-vehicle factory near Berlin was restored on Monday evening at 8:45 p.m. local time. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLeadership

    Elon Musk says he is ‘guilty of many self-inflicted wounds’ in defamation lawsuit accusing him of falsely identifying man as federal agent posing as neo-Nazi

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 26: British billionaire owner of Tottenham Hotspur Joe Lewis is escorted by his attorneys after leaving Manhattan Federal Court on July 26, 2023 in New York City. Lewis turned himself in after being charged with orchestrating an insider trading scheme to enrich his friends, lovers and employees, including two private jet pilots. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)Finance

    87-year-old billionaire Joe Lewis says he’s too old for prison after pleading guilty to insider trading

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • LOS ANGELES – JULY 6: Singer Frank Sinatra performs at The Universal Amphitheatre on July 6, 1980 in Universal City, Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Joan Adlen/Getty Images)Tech

    Music labels sue nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over digitized 78s of Frank Sinatra and other artists

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • ANKARA, TURKIYE – JULY 30: In this photo illustration, the logos of various social media apps including ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter) are displayed on a phone screen in front of a screen displaying the picture of Elon Musk in Ankara, Turkiye on July 30, 2023. (Photo by Aytug Can Sencar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Tech

    Musk sues anti-hate speech nonprofit for illegally ‘scraping’ Twitter/X servers and cherry-picking objectionable posts to drive away advertisers

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • NEW YORK, NY – JULY 08: A protest group called “Hot Mess” hold up signs of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the federal courthouse on July 8, 2019 in New York City. According to reports, Epstein will be charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)Finance

    JPMorgan will pay $290 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of benefitting from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • Gregory “Greg” Wasson, left, president and chief executive officer of Walgreen Co., speaks at the Executives Club of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Thursday, March 8, 2012. Walgreen Co. last month agreed to buy BioScrip Inc.’s community specialty pharmacies and mail-service pharmacy businesses in a deal valued at $225 million, bolstering the largest U.S. drugstore chain’s drug offerings and services. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSuccess

    The ex-CEO of Walgreens is suing the company for $200 million accusing the current chief of reneging on deal

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA – NOVEMBER 17: Tucker Carlson speaks during 2022 FOX Nation Patriot Awards at Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood on November 17, 2022 in Hollywood, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images)Finance

    Fox producer for Maria Bartiromo and Tucker Carlson says in lawsuit that company lawyers pushed her to lie in Dominion case

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • A worker pushes shopping carts outside an Albertsons supermarket in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Albertsons Cos is scheduled to release earnings figures on January 11. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Judge orders Albertsons to keep dividend on hold as Cerberus Capital waits, states resist ahead of $24.6 billion Kroger tie-up

    By Brendan Case, Robert Burnson, and others
  • CHIBA, JAPAN – SEPTEMBER 15: Attendees stand outside the TikTok booth at the Tokyo Game Show 2022 on September 15, 2022 in Chiba, Japan. The event runs for four days from September 15-18 and takes place for first time in three years, following a hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)Tech

    TikTok found not liable for death of 10-year-old girl who tried ‘Blackout Challenge’ she found on site

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • Amazon Web ServicesFinance

    Ex-Amazon cloud worker convicted of massive Capital One hack: ‘She wanted data, she wanted money, and she wanted to brag’

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • SPAIN – 2021/04/16: In this photo illustration an Alibaba app seen displayed on a smartphone with the Alibaba website displayed on a laptop in the background. (Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Tech

    Alibaba is being sued for selling a 3D printer that caused a fire that killed a man

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • The 432 Park Avenue building in New York, U.S., on Thursday June 17, 2021. New York state’s pandemic mandates were lifted last week, after 70% of the adult population has now been given at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesReal Estate

    ‘Intolerable’ noise and stuck in the elevator for hours: NYC Billionaire Row condo board sues developers over 1,500 defects

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • 03 December 2020, Berlin: Nine Messenger applications installed on iPhone 12 Pro, recorded December 3, 2020 (Telegram, Wire, Signal, Messenger (Facebook), News (Apple iOS), WhatsApp, Line, WeChat and Threema) Photo: Christoph Dernbach/dpa (Photo by Christoph Dernbach/picture alliance via Getty Images)Tech

    Google, Microsoft look to team up with Facebook for legal fight against Israeli company

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg
  • VAIL, CO – JUNE 9, 2017: The Tesla brand logo embellishes the nose of a Tesla electric sedan in Vail, Colorado.Tech

    Ex-Tesla employee who tussled with Elon Musk must pay up

    By Robert Burnson and Bloomberg