Proposed legislation that would reel in the power of big technology companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google got official support from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday (March 29), citing a letter to the bipartisan leaders of the Senate...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has filed a brief urging an appeals court to reject an appeal by several states to revive their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, Reuters reported Monday (March 28). The Chamber said the district court judge had been right to throw the...
Amazon and Microsoft can breathe a sigh of relief — for now. Two of the biggest providers of cloud computing networks don’t raise competition concerns, the European Union’s Commissioner for Competition told Reuters Monday (March 28). “No, so far we’ve had no concerns,” Margrethe Vestager...
Google parent Alphabet has urged a judge at its antitrust case to reject requests from the Justice Department that it be sanctioned over allegations of attorney-client privilege abuse, Reuters reported Thursday (March 24). The department asked the judge to sanction Google over the company’s “Communicate...
OVHcloud, a French cloud computing company, is filing an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in Europe, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday (March 16). This adds more fuel to the fire on recent critiques of Microsoft’s competitive practices, although the company has mostly avoided much of...
The advertising agreement between Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook is under investigation in parallel probes launched by the EU’s European Commission (EC) and the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). At the center of both inquiries is the agreement between the two U.S. tech giants...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) are working together to transform their merger guidelines, with the new rules likely to most significantly affect digital mergers, mergers with potential or nascent competitors, and vertical mergers between suppliers and their customers. FTC and...
Amazon has given the Federal Trade Commission a new, urgent deadline to decide something about its proposal to buy MGM, The Wall Street Journal wrote Thursday (March 3). The move, which could go for $6.5 billion to buy the movie and TV studio, could make...
Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition Director Holly Vedova issued a statement on the termination of the proposed merger between Lifespan and Care New England Wednesday (March 2), saying she was “pleased.” “I am pleased that Lifespan and Care New England have abandoned their efforts...