A Texas jury says Meta must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer an ongoing royalty and $174.5M+ in damages for violating patents with Facebook and Instagram Live (Bloomberg Law)

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A Delaware jury says Shopify owes $40M to patent holder Express Mobile for infringing three patents related to software for providing content to mobile devices  —  E-commerce platform Shopify Inc owes patent holder Express Mobile Inc $40 million for infringing three patents related …

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A federal jury in Detroit ordered Ford to pay Versata Software $104.6M for breach of a 2004 licensing contract and misuse of trade secrets; Ford plans to appeal  —  A federal jury in Detroit ordered Ford Motor Co (F.N) to pay Versata Software Inc $104.6 million in damages for breaching …

Vincent Manancourt / Politico:
Ireland’s DPC fines Instagram €405M for violating children’s privacy under GDPR, the second highest fine under the law and the third for a Meta-owned company  —  The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta-owned social media platform Instagram €405 million for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court  —  A federal appeals court upheld the validity of a Texas social-media law that companies like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc …

TechCrunch:
BrandTotal and Unimania agreed to a permanent injunction banning them from using and scraping Facebook and Instagram, and will pay a “significant financial sum”  —  Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations …

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment  —  Trade groups that represent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn …