A trove of internal documents from Amazon reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign to create knockoff goods and manipulate search results to boost its own product lines in India—practices it has denied engaging in, says Reuters.   According to the report, the...

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Several bottled-water brands, including Dasani and Poland Spring, may think they have figured out a way to make consumers feel better about drinking water out of single-use plastic bottles that are harmful to the environment: label the products “100% recyclable.”   The problem,...

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As leading e-commerce platforms gear up for record revenues in the festive season, several fake and malicious e-commerce platforms have proliferated in the country, selling smartphone accessories to luxury watches. The cyber authorities have failed to protect innocent users, who are falling...

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The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday issued a notice on a plea seeking direction to the Centre to frame a 'model builder agreement' and agent-buyer agreement in the real estate sector to infuse transparency and fairness, restraining builders and agents from indulging into unfair and restrictive...

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As the Competition Commission of India investigates Google and now Apple for anti-competitive conduct in the app store market, SAKSHAM MALIK explains what the issues at stake are and potential implications for app developers and consumers.   Last month, the Competition Commission of...

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Bank customers, especially in India, are being targeted by a new mobile banking campaign using Drinik Android malware under the pretext of refund from the Income Tax (I-T) department. Drinik, a primitive SMS stealer in 2016, has evolved into a banking trojan now and persuades customers to...

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TINA.org files a complaint with the US federal regulators over shoemaker's deceptive made in the USA claims.   For more than a decade, New Balance has defied the law when it comes to marketing its athletic shoes as “made in the USA,” brazenly ignoring the legal definition for the term...

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From suspiciously low prices to sellers who demand payment in gift cards, there are multiple warning signs a Marketplace listing might be fraudulent.   Even though Facebook Marketplace is backed by the power of the social networking giant, buying and selling items through the service...

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Apple has released iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8 for iPhone as well as for iPad users with an important security fix. Citizen Lab caught zero-click, zero day iMessage .gif files used by NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to exploit Apple's image rendering library   The iOS 14.8 update provides...

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The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDRC) decision upholding state consumer forum order, which directed HDFC Bank to pay for Rs 30 lakh to a customer, who claimed fraudulent withdrawals from his account.   HDFC Bank counsel...

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Over 1,800 home buyers of Amrapali housing projects in Noida, including former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, have been asked by the Supreme Court-appointed receiver to fill their data on his website and begin clearing their respective dues within 15 days.   As per...

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In a significant order, the Supreme Court, while holding the Railways liable to pay compensation for delays and late arrivals of trains, has asked the North Western Railway to pay Rs30,000 to an aggrieved passenger. In its order, the apex court stated, "These are the days of competition and...

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The Principal Economic Adviser to the Finance Ministry, Sanjeev Sanyal, on Tuesday took to Twitter to say that he has been receiving harassing calls from the Vodafone Idea customer care service to pay his dues after porting his number to some other operator, although all dues have already...

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Registration of new cars may come to a screeching halt on Wednesday in Tamil Nadu with the state Transport Department directing Regional Transport Officers (RTO) and others to ensure the vehicles are covered under bumper-to-bumper insurance for five years.   The Transport Department...

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In a major blow to real estate company Supertech, the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday directed the demolition of its two 40-storey buildings in one of its housing projects in Noida. The apex court also observed that home buyers suffer the impact of "unholy nexus of builders and planners", when...

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Companies like Byju’s, Bigbasket, MobiKwik and several others have had a data breach, at least once. None of them were penalised due to the lack of a specific provision against data breach in the Information Technology Act of 2000 and a separate comprehensive statute on data protection laws,...

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In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court (HC) has said that a builder or developer cannot deduct tax at source (TDS) on the amount being refunded to home-buyers.   In a judgement earlier this month, the bench of justice SJ Kathawalla and justice Milind N Jadhav says, "...we are...

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How close to the beach do you have to be to be “near the beach”? A mile? A couple hundred feet? Less than that?   For Hotels.com, the answer is as much as (if not more than) 10 miles.   That’s how far the Mondrian Los Angeles is from Santa Monica State Beach, the closest beach...

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In a clear case of insider hand, Dr Jayaprakash Narayan, a former officer from the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) and founder of Lok Satta Party, lost Rs13.58 lakh during the second COVID lock-down when his mobile subscriber identity module (SIM) card was allegedly swapped. For the past...

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The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that the builders only understand the colour of money or a jail term, as it imposed a fine of Rs 15 lakh on a real estate firm.   A bench headed by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud told real estate firm Ireo Grace Realtech Pvt Ltd that the court had...

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