Get the latest tech news
Kitchen foil and Algerian markets: When your phone is stolen in London
Plus: Fake Forrest Gump-themed shrimp restaurant payout — and pub survives licence review after drinkers disrupt a child's music practice.
Asif Aziz, the billionaire landlord at the heart of an ever-growing number of London Centric stories, has paid £150,000 to settle allegations he illegally ran a fake Forrest Gump-themed shrimp restaurant at Piccadilly Circus. Paramount and its fellow claimant, the US branded restaurant chain Landry’s, alleged that Aziz’s response was to surreptitiously infringe their trademarks by illegally reopening the Bubba Gump and Rainforest Cafe venues using his own staff without their permission. iRemoval Pro claims on its website to have unlocked over 300,000 devices as of 2021, suggesting it could have made tens of millions in sales for its UAE-based founder Hichem Maloufi, whose Instagram chronicles a life in first class suites and on private jets.
Or read this on Hacker News
