Meta has been fined nearly €800 million by the European Commission for competition law breaches related to Facebook Marketplace. According to the Commission, Meta abused its dominant position in the market for personal social networks by tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook.
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Glasgow-based AI chatbot and messaging technology company Konversable has raised £300,000 following a successful investment round, with support provided by Davidson Chalmers Stewart. Konversable’s technology enables businesses and organisations to have ‘smarter conversations’
Infowars, the far-right media outlet built by disgraced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has been acquired by satirical news website The Onion. Jones – once close to Donald Trump – declared bankruptcy after he was ordered to pay $1.5 billion to families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook E
Proposals to simplify crofting regulation, encourage more use of common grazings and a range of other changes have received high levels of support in a recent consultation. The Scottish government has published an independent analysis of the responses to the consultation on proposals for Crofting La
Jones Whyte has announced a series of promotions.
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Israel accused of crimes against humanity over forced displacement in Gaza
Join us to celebrate Christmas at the Signet Library with the Choir of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral next month. With carols old and new from across the world, this year’s concert is a wonderful occasion to entertain family, friends and colleagues in the run up to the festivities.
An academic has taken the Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian, to task over a "carelessly drafted" opinion. In an article on long punishment parts in the Scots Law Times, Dr Graeme Brown, senior lecturer in law at Aberdeen University, wrote that Lady Dorrian's opinion in Packer (Iain) v HMA was "poorly
The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by a woman who had spent 22 years trying to acquire ownership of her brother’s flat in Edinburgh after he was imprisoned for drugs offences seeking to overturn a sheriff’s refusal of an amendment to an action seeking implementation of missiv
With Donald Trump taking legal advice on how to retain a US base on the Chagos Islands, Tom Marshall reviews a new book by Philippe Sands KC which reveals Britain’s duplicity in its dealings with the islanders of its last colony. The Chagos Archipelago, a small group of islands in the Indian O
A new record has been set for the number of Scottish solicitors formally admitted to the profession in a single day.
According to The Times of November 1st the total cost of state support for the sick will exceed an unprecedented £100 billion a year by the end of this parliamentary term. This frankly unsustainable health burden is largely the outcome of successive governments placing fiscal imperatives above
Which? is today launching a landmark £3 billion legal claim against Apple, claiming the tech giant breached competition law, effectively locking millions of consumers into its iCloud service at "rip-off" prices Around 40 million Apple customers in the UK who have obtained iCloud services over
Profits at Blackadders LLP and and Blackadders Wealth Management LLP reached £4.61 million as turnover rose to £16.9m, the latest figures show. The figures for the 2023/24 financial year show profits increased by six per cent on turnover growth of 1.4 per cent for the combined income of
