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After a wait of more than four years, the trial of the FTC’s antitrust case against Meta begins today, pitting an enforcer bent on reining in Big Tech against a company defending past acquisitions that arguably hold the key to its future…
Data broker LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. (RAMP) operates a vast digital marketplace that exchanges the personal information of hundreds of millions of individuals grouped into highly specific audience “segments”—many of which include potentially sensitive information denoting everything...
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater today indicated they would take a less aggressive approach to merger enforcement than their Biden administration predecessors and be more willing to entertain remedies. “Healthy pro-competitive M&A that allows American...
Marketing technology company Zeta Global Holdings Corp., which claims to possess one of the world’s largest compilations of consumers’ personal data, removed all references to its data being “opted-in” in its latest annual filing, raising questions over how the company sources and...
The European Commission is set to order Apple to open up its iOS system or risk hefty penalties as high as 10% of its global turnover, two people with direct knowledge of the cases told The Capitol...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was poised to sue Meta (META) over alleged targeted ad abuses when Rohit Chopra, the former director, was ousted this month, sources familiar with the matter said. Now the agency’s plans are unclear as President Donald Trump –who had...
The European Commission is signaling reluctance to launch a formal investigation of Broadcom’s (AVGO) contentious pricing and contract changes for its software unit VMware, prompting concerns among industry groups that geopolitical considerations are influencing enforcement...
As app monetization and analytics company AppLovin pivots to advertising for e-commerce brands across mobile games, some marketing experts question whether in-game advertisements can effectively boost sales in an ad space that has traditionally focused on promoting other games and at...
DOJ staff attorneys are asking media industry players if Disney’s (DIS) plan to combine its Hulu + Live TV business with rival sports streaming service Fubo (FUBO) would lead to the entertainment giant raising pay-TV distributors’ costs for programming such as ESPN, sources familiar...
Some of AppLovin’s (APP) most popular mobile games redirect users to app stores and to download apps through dark patterns in advertisements, including a series of ads for a Hong Kong-based app that may process users’ location data and other personal information in China, a Capitol...
As the lead generation industry celebrates the last-minute vacatur of the FCC’s one-to-one rule, legal experts warn that the ruling has cast uncertainty over the commission’s future rulemaking ability and that disputes around the legality of telemarketing practices will continue to...
Lenovo Group’s (HKSE: 992) proposed acquisition of Israeli-American data storage company Infinidat is shaping up as a critical litmus test for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) under the Trump administration, according to a Capitol Forum...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) proposed Juniper Networks (JNPR) acquisition enters a perilous phase as DOJ is scheduled to meet with the companies’ representatives tomorrow to discuss that it’s leaning toward suing to block the $14 billion deal, according to sources familiar...
Critics of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company are preparing to urge the newly installed Trump administration to launch a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into the No. 1 computer...
The Department of Justice filed an amended complaint against Dave (DAVE) late last month, taking over the case from the Federal Trade Commission. The amended complaint seeks civil penalties and names the company’s CEO Jason Wilk as a...
Synopsys’ (SNPS) proposed $35 billion buyout of Ansys (ANSS) last week entered an in-depth phase 2 merger review in China, as regulators start to ask market participants about the tie-up of the two chip-design software makers, sources familiar with the matter...
For those not around for the decades-long string of events that led to Big Tech becoming the target of antitrust enforcers, you’re in luck. Companies’ current fights for dominance in artificial intelligence should give you an idea of what you missed in the development of Internet...
The merging parties’ optimism of closing IBM’s attempted $6.4 billion takeover of HashiCorp is growing as the FTC approaches a decision early next year, sources familiar with the matter...
Eight months into a European Commission investigation of whether its search results violate the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google (GOOG) is reverting to responding to hotel queries in Germany, Belgium and Estonia with a list of blue...
The outcome of Apple’s (AAPL) effort to dismiss a Department of Justice lawsuit might shape the development of a contentious area of law—the antitrust “duty to deal”—that tech giants are increasingly using as a shield against legal liability, experts...
Unionized Google workers met with the Justice Department over search monopoly remedy proposals. Representatives of a group of Google (GOOG) employees who unionized in 2021 with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) asked DOJ lawyers last month to take worker concerns into account...
DOJ will likely either clear unconditionally or sue to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s proposed acquisition of rival Juniper Networks and isn’t assessing a proposed remedy to address any concerns with the $14 billion deal, sources familiar with the matter...
Siemens’s $10.6 billion bid for Altair Engineering could trigger a review by the Chinese antitrust authority due to both companies’ deep business ties to the Asian country and ongoing consolidation in the design simulation software sector, China-based lawyers and industry analysts...
Some online health service providers share users’ potentially sensitive health information with adtech companies and third-party advertisers for marketing purposes—a practice that has drawn increasing scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission and is allegedly engaged in by medical...
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) will discuss proposed changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Regulations, including new examples of dark patterns and requirements for companies to comply with the law, at its board meeting on November...
The FTC has asked software industry participants whether their concerns with IBM’s proposed $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp would be addressed by placing the target firm’s cloud management software within a foundation that would guarantee open-source access to the products,...
Epic v. Google judge rejects refusal-to-deal defense in sweeping injunction; Google set to appeal. For three years, Google (GOOG) must open its Google Play ecosystem to competing app stores, Northern District of California Court Judge James Donato ruled Monday in an injunction that mostly...
Kamala Harris avoids committing to keep on FTC Chair Lina Khan. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that at a meeting with the Teamsters union, a Teamsters board member asked Harris for a commitment to keep Khan in place at the FTC. Harris then declined to make that commitment,...
Marketing technology companies like Zeta Global Holdings Corp. (ZETA) use extensive web tracking tools and third-party data brokers to amass profiles on millions of individuals, then utilize artificial intelligence to make inferences about potentially sensitive personal interests for...
Itron (ITRI) contracts with utilities to be the exclusive provider for their customers’ electronic electricity meters, known as smart meters. Itron’s marketing also brags that its technology platform “utilizes an app store model, similar to a smart phone.” Critics worry that Itron...
Kamala Harris, newly elected as California attorney general, grinned and murmured “cha-ching” as she discussed with her staff a price-fixing case that would bring in more than $1 billion in...
Verisign (VRSN) is entering a period of uncertainty over its primary source of revenue as the U.S. government has signaled that it wants to change an agreement that lets the sole .com registry operator levy hefty price increases while maintaining high operating...
Regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential race in November, foreign investors attempting to purchase American assets can expect more government scrutiny than ever before—especially if the buyers are from...
Skies appear to clear for Lufthansa/ITA as IAG offers remedies. The German airline giant (ETR: LHA) is likely to receive the European Commission’s (EC) blessing to take a 41% stake in state-owned ITA Airways, Reuters and Politico reported last week, citing anonymous sources. Such a...
A Department of Commerce proposal to bolster the government’s authority over inventions it helped fund has set off alarms across the pharmaceutical industry, prompting lobbyists associated with large drugmakers to seek allies in other sectors that similarly draw on public...
Burnett case will determine the scope of upcoming legal fight between brokerages and homebuyers. Appeals by rival plaintiff lawyers were expected in the landmark Burnett settlement, which will see the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and major brokerages pay hundreds of millions of...
The European Commission is examining an Apple (AAPL) program created to comply with Europe’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) that critics said hinders rival browsers and other apps on the company’s iPhone, sources familiar with the matter...
The Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Apple (AAPL) had been expected for years, but it still contained a few surprises when it was finally filed in March. One was the choice of venue: federal court in New Jersey. Prosecutors haven’t been forthcoming with their reasoning, but...
Google’s (GOOG) own experiments show that it can raise prices for search advertisements without considering its competitors’ actions, DOJ said today on the second and final day of closing arguments in the department’s monopoly case against the...
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta today challenged DOJ to show that Google’s (GOOG) position as operator of the world’s most popular search engine has led to lower-quality results while grilling the company about the competitive impact of the billions it pays partners to make its search...
Hong Kong-based private equity firm Ascendent Capital Partners’ planned $1.66 billion buyout of Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI) is likely to face scrutiny from China’s antitrust regulator and the country’s opaque national security review agency, sources familiar with the...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks (JNPR) is raising concerns among some industry experts and customers of the companies’ wireless network-management software that the $14 billion deal could slow innovation and lower the quality of support...
The judge assigned to the DOJ/Apple lawsuit has limited experience ruling on antitrust. The New Jersey federal judge overseeing the Justice Department’s sprawling challenge to Apple’s (AAPL) alleged illegal monopolization of the iPhone ecosystem is in for quite the crash course on...
VMware customers are pressing the European Commission to impose interim measures on Broadcom (AVGO) that put a hold on allegedly onerous contractual changes the company has made since acquiring the virtualization software last year and allow users who felt pressured to sign the new...
Amidst increasing regulatory scrutiny of the hidden costs associated with earned wage access (EWA) and cash advance products, the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), a non-profit research and policy advocacy group, on Wednesday issued a report entitled “Not Free: The Large Hidden...
The Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple (AAPL) over its iPhone ecosystem and “lock in” tactics doesn’t just take on the company’s current conduct. It also attempts to prevent Apple from expanding its allegedly anticompetitive business practices in the future....
Google (GOOG) has worked to curry favor with smaller tech firms and direct their attention toward Apple’s (AAPL) supposedly insufficient design changes to comply with the European Union’s sweeping new rules regulating Big Tech in the weeks leading up to the bloc’s launch of probes...
Synopsys’s (SNPS) proposed $35 billion acquisition of Ansys (ANNS) would give it control over the two most popular programs for a cutting-edge method of chip design, sparking concerns among customers about price increases and less interoperability with rival...
AELP’s Stoller points out how Shaheen’s new spending bill language makes $45 million cut to DOJ antitrust division’s budget. Matt Stoller, research director for the American Economic Liberties Project, wrote in the latest edition of his newsletter, BIG, that new language in...
Last week, the Department of Commerce announced the largest disbursal of CHIPS Act funding yet: $1.5 billion, going to U.S. chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc (GFS). Other domestic manufacturers, particularly Intel (INTC), are set to receive billions more in the coming...
With a Department of Justice lawsuit appearing imminent, Apple (AAPL) may have provided last-minute evidence to bolster the DOJ’s case against it: its potentially anticompetitive behavior in the wake of the Epic Games...
