{"id":10402,"date":"2012-04-19T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=10402"},"modified":"2012-04-20T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T10:03:39","slug":"apple-google-still-to-face-antitrust-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/10402\/apple-google-still-to-face-antitrust-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Google still to face antitrust lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1648-Apple\">Apple Inc<\/a>, <a title=\"Google Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1719-Google\">Google Inc<\/a>, <a title=\"Intel Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2080-Intel\">Intel Corp<\/a> and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally agreed not to poach each other&#8217;s employees.<\/p>\n<p>District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, rejected the companies&#8217; bid to dismiss claims brought under the Sherman Act and California state law, in a decision released Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Other defendants in the case included <a title=\"Adobe Systems Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/364802-Adobe\">Adobe Systems Inc<\/a>, Intuit Inc, <a title=\"Walt Disney Co\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/423140-Walt-Disney\">Walt Disney Co&#8217;s<\/a> <a title=\"Pixar\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/423144-Pixar\">Pixar<\/a> unit and <a title=\"Lucasfilm Ltd\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/423152-Lucasfilm\">Lucasfilm Ltd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed class action lawsuit was brought by five software engineers, who accused the companies of conspiring to depress employee pay by eliminating competition for skilled labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally agreed not to poach each other&#8217;s employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,195,793,51,53,2468,2467],"class_list":["post-10402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-adobe","tag-antitrust","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-lucasfilms","tag-walt-disney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10475,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402\/revisions\/10475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}