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Apple, Google offer settlement in class action lawsuit (RCR Mobile Minute)

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More than 64,000 engineers are suing some of the biggest employers in mobile for conspiring to keep them in their jobs, and now those companies have offered a settlement. The class action lawsuit was brought against Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe. It claims that executives at those companies agreed not to recruit one another’s employees in secret deals that took place between 2005 and 2009. The settlement offered is $324 million, according to The New York Times, which says the plaintiffs had originally asked for $3 billion. If the plaintiffs do not accept the settlement, the case could go to trial. The presiding judge is Lucy Koh, who is also the judge in the ongoing Apple/Samsung patent trials.
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Martha DeGrasse
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Martha DeGrasse is the publisher of Network Builder Reports (nbreports.com). At RCR, Martha authored more than 20 in-depth feature reports and more than 2,400 news articles. She also created the Mobile Minute and the 5 Things to Know Today series. Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Martha produced business and technology news for CNN and Dow Jones in New York and managed the online editorial group at Hoover’s Online before taking a number of years off to be at home when her children were young. Martha is the board president of Austin's Trinity Center and is a member of the Women's Wireless Leadership Forum.