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| Apple, Google appeal rejection of $324.5 mln settlement in hiring lawsuit | |  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Four tech companies including Apple and Google appealed the rejection of a proposed $324.5 million settlement in a lawsuit over hiring practices in Silicon Valley, according to a court filing from the companies late on Thursday. Plaintiff tech workers accused Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe of conspiring to avoid poaching each other's employees. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California rejected the proposed class action settlement, saying the amount was too low. Plaintiff lawyers, as well as representatives for the other three firms, could not immediately be reached for comment.
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| U.S. court rejects gay-marriage bans as 'implausible' | |  Judge Richard Posner, appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1981, wrote the unanimous decision on behalf of a three-judge panel of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. The court ruled against the bans. Supreme Court weighs in during its coming term. The arguments advanced by both states in defense of the bans were "totally implausible," wrote Posner, 75 and the panel's lone Republican appointee.
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| China warns again of dark side of the mooncakes | |  China's crackdown on corruption, a scourge Communist Party leaders fear threatens their hold on power, is likely to last at least another five years, an official said, warning also against the mid-autumn tradition of handing out mooncakes as gifts. Wang Qishan, secretary of China's anti-corruption watchdog, was quoted as saying the government's "campaign against extravagance and corruption" would continue for at least five years, the official China Daily said. President Xi Jinping has promised to go after "tigers and flies" in rooting out rampant graft, a campaign that has brought down politicians and company executives in industries including oil, cars and healthcare. The campaign has also dragged down sales of high-end products from the fiery sorghum-based liquor, baijiu, to mooncakes, both traditional popular gifts for smoothing business and official ties.
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| Apple to add security alerts for iCloud users, says Cook - WSJ | |  (Reuters) - Apple Inc is planning additional steps to keep hackers out of user accounts in the face of the recent celebrity photo scandal and will aggressively encourage users to take stricter security measures, CEO Tim cook told the Wall Street Journal in an interview. Apple will alert users through email and push notifications when someone tries to change an account password, restore iCloud data to a new device, or when a device logs into an account for the first time, the report said. Cook said Apple will broaden its use of the two-factor authentication security system to avoid future intrusions, the Journal reported.
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| BP 'grossly negligent' in 2010 U.S. spill, fines could be $18 bln | |  District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans, Louisiana, who held a trial without a jury last year to determine who was responsible for the April 20, 2010 rig explosion and spill that killed 11 workers and spewed oil for nearly three months onto the shorelines of several states. Barbier ruled that BP was mostly at fault and that two other companies in the case, Transocean Ltd and Halliburton, were not as much to blame. The disaster struck when a surge of methane gas known to rig hands as a "kick" sparked an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig as it was drilling the mile-deep Macondo 252 well off Louisiana. Barbier has yet to assign damages from the spill under the federal Clean Water Act or rule on how many barrels spilled, but David Uhlmann, a University of Michigan law professor and former chief of the Justice Department's environmental crimes section, said the ruling "dramatically increases" BP's liability for civil penalties under the act.
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