What the recent Tea app breach teaches us about age verification, trust, and the cost of age verification mandates for developers and kids alike What happens when an app built for safety becomes the source of harm? The now-infamous app Tea, designed to help women protect themselves [...]
With Judge Mehta ruling that Google illegally maintained its monopoly in the general search and search advertising markets, violating Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which is very likely to be appealed, all attention has turned to the question of what remedies the court will impose. A July [...]
On 8 May 2025, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (U.S.) announced a new trade agreement. While much of the news coverage has focused on tariffs for steel, cars, and agricultural goods, there’s are also reasons to be optimistic for small tech businesses on both sides of [...]
The AI industry is often called “fast-moving,” but rarely has it moved as fast as it did last week. Over the previous weekend, Chinese startup DeepSeek released an AI assistant app powered by its new R1 model that quickly overtook ChatGPT atop the App Store charts. Thanks to efficiencies [...]
On October 24, 2024, the Federal Circuit took a key step in preventing standard-essential patent (SEP) holders from evading their voluntary commitments to license on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. By reversing a North Carolina federal court’s denial of Lenovo’s request for an anti-suit injunction (ASI) against Ericsson, [...]
