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Tag: Antitrust Laws and Competition Issues

Lina Khan, Aiming to Block Microsoft’s Activision Deal, Faces a Challenge

Lina Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has pledged to usher in a new era of trustbusting of America’s corporate giants, recently...

F.T.C. Sues to Block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision

The deal between Microsoft and Activision has been under review by 16 regulators around the world, but the F.T.C. is the first of three...

Can Big Tech Get Bigger? Microsoft Presses Governments to Say Yes.

In recent weeks, Microsoft has accused Sony, its chief video game rival, of misleading regulators. Its lawyers have showed off game consoles, including an...

F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan Upends Antitrust Standards by Suing Meta

WASHINGTON — Early in her tenure as chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan declared that she would rein in the power of...

F.T.C. Sues to Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal as It Confronts Big Tech

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday filed for an injunction to block Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, from buying a...

Amazon C.E.O. Andy Jassy Breaks From the Bezos Way

When Jeff Bezos was chief executive of Amazon, he took an arm’s-length stance toward the company’s affairs in Washington. He rarely lobbied lawmakers. He...

The S.E.C. Sent a Letter to Musk About His Twitter Shares in April

The Securities and Exchange Commission revealed on Friday that it had begun looking into Elon Musk’s purchases of Twitter stock in early April and...

A Gene Sequencing Pioneer Battles Over What It Can Buy

Illumina, the leading maker of gene-sequencing machines, is tiny compared with the tech giants of Silicon Valley. But like Google and Facebook, Illumina now...

Microsoft Starts Charm Offensive to Push Through Activision Deal

Microsoft on Wednesday kicked off a charm offensive in Washington to gain government approval for its $70 billion deal to buy the video game...

Nvidia Deal to Buy Arm From SoftBank Is Off After Setbacks

SAN FRANCISCO — Nvidia, the Silicon Valley chip maker, is ending its nearly 18-month effort to buy Arm, which licenses chip technology used in...

6 Reasons Meta Is in Trouble

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, suffered its biggest one-day wipeout ever on Thursday as its stock plummeted 26 percent and its market...

Google Faces New Antitrust Law in Europe

“We are an example of the consequences,” said Michal Feix, a former chief executive of Seznam, who now leads its policy and legal work...

Four Attorneys General Sue Google Over Privacy Claims

The District of Columbia and three states sued Google on Monday, claiming that the tech giant deceived consumers to gain access to their location...

Google Asks Court to Dismiss Texas Antitrust Case

Google asked a federal court on Friday to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit led by the State of Texas, the first time it has sought...

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