US FTC tries again to stop Microsoft’s already-closed deal for Activision By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. antitrust enforcers will argue… Read More
(CTN News) – In their latest effort to halt the $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, US antitrust enforcers will contend that a federal judge made an incorrect… Read More
US FTC tries again to stop Microsoft’s already-closed deal for Activision
By Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. antitrust enforcers will argue on Wednesday that a federal ju… Read More
US FTC tries again to stop Microsoft’s already-closed deal for Activision
By Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. antitrust enforcers will argue on Wednesday that a federal ju… Read More
The Biden administration announced on Thursday a proposed framework to rein in prescription drug “price gouging” by activating a never-before-used patent authority over unreaso… Read More
U.S. antitrust regulators told a federal appeals court Wednesday that a federal judge got it wrong when she allowed Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of Activision to close. Reuters reports:… Read More
Alaska Air Group has unveiled plans to purchase Hawaiian Holdings, the parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, in a substantial $1.9 billion transaction, inclusive of $0.9 billion in assumed… Read More
(CTN News) – Gene sequencing company Illumina announced on Sunday that it will divest cancer diagnostic test maker Grail following a battle with antitrust enforcers and opposition from… Read More
Adobe has recently backed out of its massive $20 billion plan to buy Figma, the design software company. This is a big deal for both the tech and design software worlds. In a chat on the Dec… Read More
There’s so much to make amends for since final I wrote about Beeper. Lengthy story quick, they’ve been taking part in — and no shock, dropping —… Read More
Today’s links Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a monopoly horror-story: 43 years later, Reagan’s other shoe drops. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004… Read More
US antitrust enforcers are opening an investigation into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups, such as ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Anthropic, and the tech giants… Read More
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has initiated an inquiry into the investments and partnerships of Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., and Microsoft Corp. with artificial intelligence start… Read More
US antitrust enforcers are opening an investigation into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Anthropic and the tech giants th… Read More
U.S. antitrust enforcers have initiated an investigation into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence (AI) startups and tech giants, including OpenAI and Anthropic, and the… Read More
Federal antitrust enforcers intensify scrutiny as more employees turn to instant messaging platforms like Slack, WhatsApp, and Signal for workplace communication, sidelining traditional emai… Read More
Federal antitrust enforcers have issued a warning, stating that companies currently being investigated must provide records of instant messaging usage by employees instead of relying solely… Read More
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The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday took its most aggressive actions since Lina Khan became chair to rein in the power of Big Tech, pursuing a l… Read More
Nonconsensual deepfake porn of Taylor Swift went viral on X this week, with one post garnering more than 45 million views, 24,000 reposts and hundreds of thousands of likes before it was rem… Read More
TechCrunch: Antitrust enforcers admit they’re in a race to understand how to tackle AI. “Antitrust enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic are grappling to get a handle on AI, a… Read More
Currently, 30 antitrust cases are under investigation in the pharmaceutical sector
The European Commission (EC) and EU national competition authorities (NCAs) together adopted 26 “int… Read More
By Lauren Feiner, the senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitr… Read More
By Lauren Feiner, the senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitr… Read More
The impact of AI must be front of mind for enforcers of merger control policy, the European Union’s antitrust chief and digital EVP, Margrethe Vestager, said yesterday, warning that &l… Read More
By Lauren Feiner, the senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitr… Read More
The European Union has fined Apple €1.84 billion (just under $2BN) for breaching antitrust rules in the market for music streaming services on its mobile platform, iOS.The penalty is fo… Read More
Presented by Amnesty International USA; Oxfam America, American Friends Service Committee, Win Without War and Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft: The power players, lates… Read More
Today’s links Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections: But they rarely beat the Dem establishment in primaries. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate… Read More
Credit Source Algorithms might help hotels illegally collude on prices, even if no humans from those businesses actually talk to each other about them, according to US antitrust enforcers. T… Read More
Algorithms might help hotels illegally collude on prices, even if no humans from those businesses actually talk to each other about them, according to US antitrust enforcers.
The Depar… Read More
Algorithms might help hotels illegally collude on prices, even if no humans from those businesses actually talk to each other about them, according to US antitrust enforcers. From a report:… Read More
Do you trust the Biden administration to pick economic winners and losers?
That is what’s at stake in the Department of Justice’s new antitrust lawsuit against Apple… Read More
The Justice Division is investigating whether or not some personal fairness corporations could have deliberately withheld data in earlier mergers, a senior official mentioned Wednesday.
R… Read More
The U.K.’s competition watchdog, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has sounded a warning over Big Tech’s entrenching grip on the advanced AI market, with CEO Sarah Cardel… Read More
Presented by American Hospital Association: Delivered daily, Influence gives you a comprehensive rundown and analysis of all lobby hires and news on K Street… Read More
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking legal action to prevent Coach parent company Tapestry from acquiring Michael Kors owner Capri in an $8.5 billion deal. The FTC is concerned th… Read More
In a groundbreaking revelation, court documents in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google have revealed that Alphabet Inc. paid Apple Inc. a whopping $20 billion in… Read More
Alphabet paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 for Google to be the default search engine in the Safari browser, according to newly unsealed court documents in the Justice Department's antitrust la… Read More
The FTC has made another aggressive move to block a corporate merger, this time between two significant players in the luxury shopping and fashion industries.
FTC Moves Against Fashion… Read More
The U.S. Justice Department and Google concluded their closing arguments on Friday in a significant antitrust case, addressing claims that Google unlawfully dominated web search and related… Read More
Something has caught Satya Nadella’s attention. It’s a small thing—just a five-letter word inside a box, lurking in the corner of a complicated PowerPoint slide, flashed on… Read More
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Many swing-state voters say they are worried that the growing presence of artificial intelligence could one day diminish privacy and… Read More
The Department of Justice in the United States has filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment, accusing them of running an illegal… Read More
The Department of Justice in the United States has filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment, accusing them of running an illegal… Read More
The Department of Justice has initiated an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment.
The suit also intends to break up the company, which h… Read More
application areas of artificial intelligence :: Article CreatorBringing Generative Artificial Intelligence To Space TAMPA, Fla. — Amazon Web Services is busy… Read More
U.S. antitrust enforcers have decided to investigate the roles Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI have played in the artificial intelligence boom. Read this in your browser 1. US Antitrust Enfor… Read More
U.S. antitrust enforcers decided to look into the Big Tech’s role in the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, exploring whether business practices by entrenched players stifle competitio… Read More
Pope Francis is no stranger to artificial intelligence – a deepfake photo of him in a white puffer jacket went viral last year – but his concerns about AI go far beyond an unfla… Read More
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet's Google must face trial on U.S. antitrust enforcers' claim that the internet search juggernaut illegally dominates the online adve… Read More
The United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have reportedly reached a deal on how they will pursue an antitrust investigation into tech giants Microsoft… Read More