A California federal judge has reportedly refused to impose a preliminary block on Meta's acquisition of virtual reality fitness app maker Within Unlimited, rejecting a challenge from the Federal Trade Commission, which must now decide if it wants to continue fighting the deal through an in-house process.
The U.S. Department of Commerce agency responsible for advising the White House on telecom policy called for changes Wednesday that would boost competition in the mobile app market, after finding the stores run by Apple and Google are harmful to consumers and developers.
State-level enforcers and others suing Google for monopolization over its Play Store policies told a California federal court that the tech giant has been deliberately deleting internal company chats for years and is asking for a slap on the wrist as punishment for destroying evidence.
The Federal Trade Commission's lone Republican warned Thursday that recent rulemakings and other moves by the commission's Democratic majority run the risk of creating a backlash that will hamper the agency's enforcement efforts.
A D.C. federal court on Wednesday blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from reopening an investigation into whether certain rules from the National Association of Realtors are anti-competitive, saying the government is bound by its promise to close the probe.