{"id":800307,"date":"2023-07-03T10:33:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T10:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/07\/03\/australian-firm-sues-twitter-for-665000-for-not-paying-bills\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T10:33:40","slug":"australian-firm-sues-twitter-for-665000-for-not-paying-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/07\/03\/australian-firm-sues-twitter-for-665000-for-not-paying-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian firm sues Twitter for $665,000 for not paying bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian project management firm has filed a lawsuit against Twitter Inc in a U.S. court seeking cumulative payments of about A$1 million ($665,000) over alleged non-payment of bills for work done in four countries, court filings showed.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney-based private company Facilitate Corp on June 29 filed the suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District Of California claiming breach of contract over Twitter&#8217;s failure to pay its invoices.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian firm&#8217;s lawsuit is the latest alleging non-payment of bills and rent against Twitter since Elon Musk bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p>Facilitate said from 2022 through early 2023, it installed sensors in Twitter&#8217;s offices in London and Dublin, completed an office fit-out in Singapore, and cleared an office in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>For those works, Twitter owed the company about 203,000 pounds, S$546,600 and A$61,300, respectively, Facilitate said.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, also known as X Corp, no longer has a media relations office. Reuters could not immediately reach Twitter&#8217;s Australia office.<\/p>\n<p>Facilitate said it was seeking compensatory damages in an amount to be determined at trial, legal costs and interest at the maximum legal rate.<\/p>\n<p>In May, a former public relations firm filed a suit in a New York court saying Twitter had not paid its bills, while early this year U.S.-based advisory firm Innisfree M&#038;A Inc sued it, seeking about $1.9 million for what it said were unpaid bills after it advised Twitter on its acquisition by Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Crown Estate, an independent commercial business that manages the property portfolio belonging to the monarchy, in January began court proceedings over alleged unpaid rent on Twitter&#8217;s London headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian project management firm has filed a lawsuit against Twitter Inc in a U.S. court seeking cumulative payments of about A$1 million ($665,000) over alleged non-payment of bills for work done in four countries, court filings showed. Sydney-based private company Facilitate Corp on June 29 filed the suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District Of California claiming breach of contract over Twitter&#8217;s failure to pay its invoices. The Australian firm&#8217;s lawsuit is the latest alleging non-payment of bills and rent against Twitter since Elon Musk bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}