By Natalie DeCoste Many industries have been hit hard by the Coronavirus pandemic but seemingly none as much as the travel industry. But now with vaccination rates on the rise and restrictions lifting it looks like travel is on the rebound. Airline tickets prices for summer travel have shot up about a week after President [...]
By Natalie DeCoste The Senate confirmed former Obama administration regulator Gary Gensler as the new head of the Securities and Exchanges Commission. Gensler is an MIT professor and former Goldman Sachs partner well known in Washington for his work at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he devised the regulatory framework for the multitrillion-dollar derivatives [...]
By Natalie DeCoste Consumers saw massive price increases in March as the U.S.'s economic recovery gained momentum and inflation picked up. In March, consumer goods prices rose at the fastest pace in the last eight and a half years. The Labor Department said on April 13 that the consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.6% month over [...]
By Natalie DeCoste American authorities recommend that the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine be put on pause after reports of adverse reactions. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was linked to a type of blood clot called cerebral venous [...]
By Natalie DeCoste The Committee for Justice hosted a panel called "Google v. Oracle: The Supreme Court and Copyright in the Digital Age" to discuss the recent landmark decision from the Supreme court on Google v. Oracle. Curt Levey, the President of the Committee for Justice, and one of the authors of the Committee's amicus [...]
Natalie DeCoste After a long wait and a long testing phase, T-Mobile is finally bringing 5G home internet to its customers. The company announced that as part of its next “uncarrier” move, 30 million homes, 10 million of which are in rural areas, are now eligible for the 5G internet. “This is the moment we’ve been working [...]
Natalie DeCoste Apple and Fortnite creator Epic Games have laid out their arguments in separate legal filings for their upcoming court battle. Epic Games sued Apple in August of 2020, alleging the tech giant engaged in monopolistic behaviors when Apple pulled Epic’s game Fortnite from its App Store. Apple had removed Fortnite from its App Store after [...]
By Natalie DeCoste The Supreme Court has made its decision in what has been called the “copyright lawsuit of the decade,” ruling for Google over Oracle. The lawsuit centered around roughly 12,000 lines of code Google used to build its Android operating system that it copied from the Java SE application programming interface (API) developed by Sun Microsystems, which [...]
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