Neowin News Feed for: Appeal

YouTube is letting some banned creators back on the platform

Usama Jawad — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:48:02 +0000

YouTube will allow banned content creators to start a new channel on the platform, as long as they meet a certain criteria. Read more...

Meta explains how EU's "unlawful" ad-free choice ruling hurts users and businesses

Paul Hill — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:12:01 +0000

Meta has decided to appeal a fine from the European Commission saying that the ruling was unlawful and harms businesses. Read more...

IRS claims Microsoft owes nearly $29 billion in back taxes; Microsoft will appeal

John Callaham — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:08:01 +0000

The Internal Revenue Service claims Microsoft still owes $28.8 billion in back taxes from between 2004 and 2013. Microsoft disputes the IRS's adjustments and will appeal the decision. Read more...

Activision CEO says CMA decision will lessen competition, expects reversal after appeal

Paul Hill — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 20:52:01 +0000

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has been doing the media rounds today. He said the UK's CMA had made a mistake to block the acquisition by Microsoft and said the company will appeal. Read more...

India antitrust suit allegedly copy pasted EU rulings more than 50 times

Anushe Fawaz — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 15:56:01 +0000

After being fined $161.59 million in October on the basis of anticompetitiveness by the Competition Commission in India, Google has charged an appeal that the order threatens its market in India. Read more...

Google loses antitrust appeal in EU court, will have to pay record €4.1 billion fine

Usama Jawad — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:26:01 +0000

Google has lost its appeal in the EU General Court for a case that required it to pay a €4.34 billion fine. Although this fine has been slightly reduced now, it is still its biggest penalty in the EU. Read more...

Google extends deadline for integration of its billing system in Android apps by six months

Usama Jawad — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 03:58:01 +0000

Developers now have up until March 31, 2022, to integrate Google Play billing into their apps if they sell digital goods. However, developers will have to file an appeal for an extension. Read more...

Google appeals a decision by the European Commission to fine it over shopping comparisons

Paul Hill — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:12:01 +0000

Google is set to start its appeal against the European Commission after it was handed a fine back in 2017 for using its dominance in search to allegedly crowd out rival shopping comparison firms. Read more...

Chinese phone firms ask the FCC not to label them as national security risks

Paul Hill — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 07:52:01 +0000

Huawei and ZTE have asked the FCC not to finalize a decision that would see it designate the Chinese firms as national security risks, which could see carriers stop using their hardware. Read more...

Amazon could fight the Pentagon's decision to choose Microsoft for JEDI project

Paul Hill — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 03:38:01 +0000

Following a decision last week by the U.S. DoD to award Microsoft with the JEDI contract, Amazon is considering fighting back against the decision in order to find out why its bid was rejected. Read more...

EE and Virgin Media have been fined for overcharging customers

Paul Hill — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 12:04:01 +0000

The U.K. regulator, Ofcom, has announced that it has fined EE and Virgin Media a total of £13.3 million because they were found to be overcharging customers for leaving their contracts early. Read more...

Class-action status for gender discrimination lawsuit versus Microsoft could be reconsidered

Ruel Revales — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 17:52:01 +0000

A federal appeals court will decide whether former female employees who filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against Microsoft in 2015 could get a class action status for their case. Read more...

Microsoft appeals to the U.S. government to regulate facial recognition tech

Sharath Ravishankar — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 16:44:01 +0000

Microsoft has appealed to the U.S. government to appoint a commission to regulate facial recognition technology, laying out various concerns that come with its proliferation among consumers. Read more...

Uber snaps up Amazon exec to head UK ops amid license issue in London

Paul Hill — Mon, 14 May 2018 17:52:01 +0000

Uber has finally found a permanent replacement for its Northern and Eastern Europe operations job. The role has been vacant since last October when the then incumbent, Jo Bertram, resigned. Read more...

Lindsay Lohan's appeal against GTA V gets thrown out of court

Usama Jawad — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:38:01 +0000

Lindsay Lohan has lost a court appeal against GTA V again. The celebrity claims that the game features characters in her likeness, an allegation that courts have been firmly dismissing since 2016. Read more...

Kaspersky appeals U.S. government ban of its software

John Keefer — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:42:01 +0000

In an attempt to overturn an order by President Trump to ban the use of its products of government machines, the Russia-based company said there is no evidence of wrongdoing by the security firm. Read more...

Uber will appeal London ban despite talk attempts

Paul Hill — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:22:01 +0000

Uber has filed an appeal with the courts against TfL's decision not to issue a new license to the company. The move was done so the company can operate while talks continue between Uber and TfL. Read more...

Founder of Silk Road loses appeal, will spend rest of his life in jail

Paul Hill — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 03:40:01 +0000

A court has rejected an appeal from the Silk Road drug market founder, Ross Ulbricht. He will continue to serve his life sentence that he was handed for drug trafficking and money laundering. Read more...

Microsoft appeals €889-million antitrust fine

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:15:37 +0000

After Microsoft’s record 889-million euro fine in 2008 for antitrust issues, the software giant has appealed against the enormous sum of money, claiming it was unnecessary in an EU court on Tuesday. The ~US$1.3 billion... Read more...

Apple wins $625.5 million patents appeal

Piers Hausjell — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:26:13 +0000

In 2008 a complaint was lodged against Apple that the company was infringing on three patents owned by Mirror Worlds, a small company founded at Yale University by Professor David Gelernter. The offending software in... Read more...

Microsoft loses second i4i patent appeal

Benjamin Rubenstein — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:54:01 +0000

According to BBC News, Microsoft has lost its second appeal to overrule the $240 million dollar fine imposed by a US court for copyright infringement. The initial ruling dictated that Microsoft pay up, as well... Read more...

Intel confident of appeal win in EU anti-trust case

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:22:36 +0000

Intel President Paul Otellini has said the company is confident of winning its appeal against the record $1.45 billion fine which was imposed by EU anti-trust regulators in May this year. Speaking to the... Read more...

British hacker loses High Court extradition appeal

Tom Warren — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:57:42 +0000

Gary McKinnon, a British hacker who is accused of hacking into secret military and NASA computers has lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States. Appeals Gary McKinnon... Read more...

Gary McKinnon Appeals to Home Secretary

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:44:24 +0000

Lawyers for a Briton accused of hacking into secret military and Nasa computers are asking the home secretary to ensure he is not jailed in the US. Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon, 42, who last month lost... Read more...

Hacker loses extradition appeal

Tom Warren — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:19:35 +0000

A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US. Gary McKinnon, 42, could face a life sentence if... Read more...

Court to Microsoft: 'Vista Capable' Appeal Denied

Steven Parker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:50:46 +0000

Microsoft took another hit on the legal front Monday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to let the software behemoth appeal a ruling by the judge in the so-called "Vista Capable" lawsuit... Read more...

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Microsoft antitrust appeal

Tom Warren — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:48:58 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a Microsoft appeal to an antitrust case that dates back to Novell's desktop PC software business in the mid-1990s. The move leaves standing a lower court ruling that... Read more...

Appeal Court rejects iPod levy

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:31:18 +0000

The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a controversial levy that would have raised the price of MP3 players, cellphones and computers. The FCA, which released its decision Thursday, said the Copyright Board — a... Read more...

Microsoft Loses Patent Appeal

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:13:41 +0000

A federal appeals court has just ruled that Microsoft must pay more than $140 million for infringing on software patents owned by a Michigan-based technology company, z4 Technologies. The company had sued Microsoft and Autodesk,... Read more...

Microsoft won't appeal European antitrust ruling

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:13:37 +0000

Microsoft has decided not to appeal last month's appeal ruling against it from the Court of First Instance (CFI) and has finally agreed to comply with the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling that sparked the... Read more...

Woman ordered to pay for file-sharing will appeal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:18:21 +0000

A woman ordered to pay $222,000 for downloading and sharing music files has decided to appeal the case. A happy Jammie Thomas said on her Myspace.com blog that the appeal was announced by her lawyer,... Read more...

Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal

Steven Parker — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:07:48 +0000

Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (Â£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had... Read more...

EU to rule on Microsoft appeal Sept. 17

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:18:59 +0000

The European Court of First Instance will give its long-awaited verdict in Microsoft's antitrust appeal on Sept. 17, people involved in the matter said Tuesday. It is by far the biggest antitrust case ever referred... Read more...

EU will wait for Microsoft appeal before ruling on antitrust

Tom Warren — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:27:59 +0000

European Union regulators will decide whether Microsoft has complied with a 2004 antitrust order after a court rules on the company's appeal in September, the EU's antitrust chief said. European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has... Read more...

Hong Kong man loses appeal in internet piracy case

Sat, 19 May 2007 05:06:24 +0000

Chan Nai-ming, a 38-year old Hong Kong man convicted of sharing pirated movies, has lost his final appeal in the territory's highest court and will now have to finish serving a three-month prison sentence. He... Read more...

Widescreen Monitors' Increasing Appeal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:48:18 +0000

Don't be surprised if the next monitor you get from your IT department is larger than your current one, particularly as more and more business applications are adapted to take advantage of widescreen monitors. "We're... Read more...

Revolution broadens appeal

Marcel Klum — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:50:25 +0000

Nintendo has announced that the Revolution will be available in a number of new colours, in addition to the black, white, silver, red and green previously depicted in promotional material. In a similar move to... Read more...

Supreme Court Denies BlackBerry Appeal

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:45:27 +0000

BlackBerry users are once againfocusing their attention on Richmond, VA and U.S. District Court of JudgeJames R. Spencer. On Monday the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal fromBlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. leaving... Read more...

Microsoft wins Right to Appeal Novell Suit

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:10:00 +0000

A federal judge in Baltimore has accepted Microsoft's request for an appeal against the remaining charges in its antitrust suit with Novell. U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz ruled that there... Read more...

Yahoo's free-speech appeal gets hearing

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:59:13 +0000

Yahoo is set to go before a U.S. appeals court in a case to determine whether a foreign court can censor speech that originated in the United States. Yahoo, which is presenting... Read more...