Axios

The claims: As the WSJ reports, Apple seeks $1 billion in rebate payments from Qualcomm over claims that Qualcomm placed "onerous, unreasonable and costly" terms on Apple as a way to retaliate against Apple for cooperating with a South Korean anititrust probe into Qualcomm's licensing practices. The probe smacked a $583 million fine onto Qualcomm last month.

A damning nugget: Apple alleges that after they cooperated with the South Korean probe, Qualcomm "attempted to extort Apple into changing its responses and providing false information to the KFTC in exchange for Qualcomm's release of those payments." Qualcomm didn't immediately comment on the suit.

Join the club: This comes three days after the Federal Trade Commission announced its own law suit against Qualcomm alleging it made Apple exclusively use its chips in exchange for reducing the fees the iPhone maker pays Qualcomm for patent licenses.

Update:

• Qualcomm's responds: EVP and General Counsel Don Rosenberg told Axios that Apple "has been actively encouraging regulatory attacks on Qualcomm's business in various jurisdictions around the world."
• Apple's responts: Apple told Axios that to protect Qualcomm's "business scheme Qualcomm has taken increasingly radical steps, most recently withholding nearly $1B in payments from Apple as retaliation for responding truthfully to law enforcement agencies investigating them."

Anti-Trump protestors are outside Uber's San Francisco headquarters this morning urging resistance to the new administration. As TechCrunch reports, the protesters are chanting "Donald Trump, go away. Racist, sexist, anti-gay."

Why Uber: The protesters aren't happy that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is a member Trump's Strategic and Policy forum, which serves as business advisory group to Trump. The forum also includes Disney's Bob Iger, General Motors' Mary Barra and PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi, holding signs saying "Uber collaborates with Trump."

Uber responds: A spokesperson says via email: "As a company we're committed to working with government on issues that affect riders, drivers and the cities where we operate. Just as we worked with the Obama Administration, we'll work with the Trump Administration, too."

The fires that forced Samsung to recall all 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones were caused by irregularly-sized batteries that overheated, while others had manufacturing problems, according to The WSJ.

A report of the fiasco—which will end up costing the company at least $5 billion—will be released on Monday. Here's what you can expect to find:

• Batteries in the Samsung SDI model were irregularly sized and didn't fit properly in the phone.
• Some batteries made in China, experienced manufacturing issues as a result of the quick ramp up in production of replacement phones.
• Samsung will introduce an eight-step process that includes more testing, inspections and manufacturing-quality assurances.

Twitter employs slightly fewer white men

The social network released its latest workforce diversity report and the results are mildly positive. Now, 57% of U.S. employees are white, down from 59% the previous year, and women make up 37% of employees worldwide are women, up from 34% in 2015.

Uber has used promises of good pay and flexible hours to attract drivers to its growing ride-hail service. Now, it says it is willing to spend millions to settle a lawsuit with a federal agency over allegations it exaggerated just how much people could make by driving for the ride-hail service.

The heart of the claims: The Federal Trade Commission says Uber offered inflated hourly earning figures for potential drivers. Uber doesn't admit or deny the activities alleged in the lawsuit.