Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe will pay $ 415 million in antitrust

Reuters published interesting news. The four largest technology corporations: Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe will pay US $ 415 million in compensation for antitrust proceedings. The essence of the proceedings - a collective complaint of employees and ex-employees of these enterprises, who complained about the collusion of companies in terms of prohibiting the transition to work in competing firms. In addition, the companies, according to the employees who filed the lawsuit, secretly agreed that they would not be lured away from each other's employees.



The initial amount requested in a class action lawsuit was $ 3 billion. Last year, the companies offered $ 324 million in compensation, but the judge of the US District Court, Lucy Co., rejected the offer. According to the judge, the amount of compensation was clearly insufficient. In this case, in the case of an official court decision on the case in favor of the plaintiffs, companies could be obliged to pay up to 9 billion US dollars .





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A settlement has now been reached whereby the plaintiffs receive US $ 415 million (for all).



It is worth noting that the correspondence featured correspondence between Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs complained to Schmidt about an attempt to poach an Apple employee to Google by a member of the human resources department. And Schmidt, in response to this letter, promised to dismiss the employee of the personnel department of Google, who intended to entice the employee of Apple.