Us Antitrust News Today

As TikTok gears up to challenge the ban law, experts say the bill itself will face roadblocks in being implemented fully in reality.

A U.S. federal judge has set a trial date of Sept. 9, 2024, for the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department and a coalition of states against Google. The lawsuit, filed in January 2023, accuses Google of monopolizing the digital advertising market. The government wants Google to sell its ad manager suite. Google denies the allegations, saying it would harm innovation and small businesses. Google also faces trials in Texas and Washington, D.C., over its ad tech practices and web search domin...

FTC launches inquiry into artificial intelligence deals such as Microsofts OpenAI partnership

In what is expected to be the last week of trial, Kevin Murphy, who teaches at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, argued Apple and others played Google and Microsoft, which has the Bing search engine, off against each other in order to win big payments from Google.

The main allegation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to be that Amazon leverages its power to reward those online merchants that use its logistics services and punish ones who don't

Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Friday that the U.S. antitrust waiting period for Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant had expired, indicating it had dodged a lengthy review of the proposed deal.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 12 ― A federal judge yesterday ruled that US regulators' re-worked anti-trust case against Facebook can go ahead, saying the complaint was more robust and detailed than the version denied last year. The US Federal Trade Commission has alleged the social media giant, which has...

Read more about Microsoft wins US antitrust okay for $16 billion purchase of Nuance on Business Standard. Microsoft Corp has won US antitrust approval for its deal to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications Inc, according to a filing made by Nuance to the government

The chief executives of Facebook, Alphabet’s Google and Twitter are set to testify in Washington next month as Congress gears up for a new round of scrutiny of giant technology companies. Two separate House committees on Thursday announced plans to examine the power of the major tech platforms. The three executives will testify in March, while a House antitrust panel announced hearings to consider legislation that could curb the companies’ dominance. Facebook Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...