For Big Tech: More investigations, and broader ones, too. On a number of fronts. News comes, as reported by The New York Times Monday (Nov. 18) that the Justice Department may widen investigations into whether tech giants such as Facebook and Google have violated antitrust...
Chairman Joe Simons of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Monday (Nov. 18) that there were multiple ongoing investigations into Big Tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple regarding their conduct on antitrust and merger issues, according to Reuters. The FTC had previously announced an...
As politicians and regulators up their pressure on so-called Big Tech in the U.S., it can be difficult to see where all that effort will lead, especially given the timetable for antitrust actions at the federal level. That was one message on Monday (Nov. 18)...
Antitrust headlines dominated the regulatory sphere this past week – focused, of course, on marquee names such as Facebook and Google. In one salvo, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives said antitrust regulators should take action against larger tech firms, which typically evaded much...
Big Tech is under siege about its failure to respect users’ privacy as the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee expressed frustration over the companies’ many acquisitions, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Nov. 13). Antitrust enforcers are probing tech behemoths Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple. At a...
For Google, antitrust scrutiny may be ramping up — if the meetings are any indication. As reported by Reuters on Monday (Nov. 11), attorneys general from as many as a dozen states are meeting in Colorado to discuss the ongoing investigation into the tech giant....
Current antitrust laws are “flexible enough” to handle issues caused by technology firms, said Makan Delrahim, assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, Reuters reported on Saturday (Nov. 9). “Some have suggested changing the antitrust laws, creating new agencies...
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said numerous grievances have been filed with the European Commission concerning Apple Pay and its negative effect on competition in the payments space, CNBC reported. “We get many, many concerns when it comes to Apple Pay for pure competition reasons,”...
Regulators in China have told eCommerce companies like Alibaba and JD.com to stop a monopolistic practice that makes merchants sign exclusive agreements, preventing them from selling on other platforms, according to a report by Reuters. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) held a meeting...
