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Strong third-quarter earnings reports will be a "sneak preview" of a coming 2024 rebound for tech stocks, Wedbush Securities' Dan Ives wrote.

Microsoft needs to close its nearly $70 billion deal to buy Call of Duty Maker Activision Blizzard by July 18. A new FTC lawsuit seeks to stop it.

Deals involving large tech companies may get harder as regulators ramp up scrutiny, like the DOJ's potential lawsuit blocking Adobe's Figma takeover.

Humans are effective liars. Robots, for now, can only say what they’ve been programmed to, which makes them honest. Thanks to ChatGPT, an AI bot from Silicon Valley, we finally have a full [...]

Chicago mayor sued over discriminatory policy Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks to guests at an event held to celebrate Pride Month at the Center on Halstead. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 5:45 PM PT – Friday, June 11, 2021 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) is being sued by a Daily Caller journalist for racial discrimination. Reporter Thomas Catenacci is one of two white journalists that were denied interviews of Lightfoot after she announced a new policy granting ...

China's competition watchdog is adding staff and other resources as it ramps up efforts to crack down on anti-competitive behaviour, especially among the country's powerful companies, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Need further assistance? Please call Member Services at 1-800-333-0663 How Stronger Antitrust Rules for Big Tech Could Help Consumers Bipartisan effort could improve products and services as well as increase competition, experts say By Allen St. John  SHARES

ENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images Tech companies are facing pressure from all sides: governments, consumers, and their own employees. Its resulting in governments worldwide issuing new regulations or filing landmark lawsuits. Consumers and employees are also putting pressure on tech firms to evaluate their impact on society. The walls are closing in on the tech industry. Governments from Australia to the US are cracking down on big tech companies. Employees ar...

When Tech Antitrust Failed Credit...Angie Wang to receive it weekdays. If you’ve wondered recently why prices for e-books seem high, let me tell you why a failure of antitrust law might be (partly) to blame. A government antitrust lawsuit a decade ago that was intended to push down prices helped lead instead to higher ones. The outcome suggests that the U.S. government’s lawsuits against Google and Facebook and a just-announced Connecticut antitrust investigation into Amazon’s e-book bus...