Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon sues an “international fraud organization” for allegedly stealing millions of dollars in merchandise from the company through a series of refund scams  —  – Shoppers took gaming consoles, smartphones, tires and gold  — Scammers live in US, five other countries, according to suit Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: A UK class action lawsuit against Vodafone, EE, Three UK, and O2, filed last week, accuses them of overcharging ~4.8M customers over 16 years and seeks £3.3B  —  Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 are accused of levying ‘loyalty penalties’ on customers  —  The biggest UK mobile phone operators … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Mobile network companies have backed themselves into a corner by racing to roll out 5G, taking on piles of debt with few returns to show for their investments  —  Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything.  But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Megha Mandavia / Wall Street Journal: India’s powerful and independent labor movement presents a challenge for Apple in its ambitions to diversify its production away from China  —  India’s moment as a manufacturing hub is here but to truly capitalize on that, it needs labor market reforms  —  India is front and center … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The UK’s CMA is considering whether Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership should be called in for a merger probe, and asks for comments from interested parties  —  The UK’s antitrust watchdog is considering whether Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI Inc.’s partnership should be called in for a merger probe. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: A UK class action lawsuit against Vodafone, EE, Three UK, and O2, filed last week, accuses them of overcharging ~4.8M customers over 16 years and seeks £3.3B  —  Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 are accused of levying ‘loyalty penalties’ on customers  —  The biggest UK mobile phone operators … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: A look at Meta’s technical issues when developing E2EE for Messenger, including creating an encrypted storage protocol and re-architecting chat features  —  Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. Lees verder op Tech Meme