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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said he wants to see bankrupt satellite company Ligado Networks settle its $39 billion suit against the U.S. government
The U.S. government’s recent capital injection into the quantum computing industry has softened some third party concerns about quantum developer IonQ’s (IONQ) pending $1.8 billion acquisition of specialty foundry SkyWater Technology (SKYT), sources familiar with the matter...
The European Commission’s Big Tech enforcement is increasingly putting officials in the uncomfortable position of having to decide whether and how technology giants should put a price on their data, app storefront access, software and other...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • SFR deal may have better chances in France • EU’s fine-free Google orders probably hurt more than upcoming...
China’s antitrust authority is likely to kick off an in-depth phase 3 review of Skyworks Solutions’ (SWKS) proposed acquisition of rival electronic components maker Qorvo (QRVO), sources familiar with the matter...
Paramount Skydance (PSKY) will wait to close its proposed Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) acquisition until after August 16 if a judge decides on the states’ suit seeking to block the deal before September 30, the date when the company would have to start paying a $7 million-a-day fee, an...
Financials Friday is a weekly overview of financial news and analysis of the timing and priorities of key agencies including the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC. Key stories we’re following this week include: • State AGs warn that lending fintechs are seeking banking charters to dodge...
Republican and Democratic state attorneys general are divided over whether to get actively involved in a federal court’s review of DOJ’s settlement with Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), sources familiar with the matter...
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a rule that grants G42, United Arab Emirates-controlled with alleged history of technology transfers to China, license-free access to advanced U.S. artificial intelligence...
U.S. video game developer Electronic Arts (EA) and a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), are increasingly optimistic that the European Commission will clear their $55 billion deal after a phase 1 review under the bloc’s Foreign...
Two U.S. senators are co-sponsoring legislation that would require foreign companies such as Arm Holdings (ARM) to license technology vital for making semiconductors to customers like Qualcomm (QCOM) on “reasonable” terms, adding another twist in the heated legal fight between the two...
Senator Mike Lee, R-UT, in a letter raised concerns with the CEOs of Uber (UBER) and Lyft(LYFT) about whether the ride-share companies’ business practices regarding pricing, driver compensation and algorithmic systems are anticompetitive. “These two companies account for the...
The TMT Weekly is a forward-looking tipsheet that covers tech policy across The Capitol Forum’s U.S. policy coverage universe, from Congress to the Courts. If you have any feedback, feel free to email editorial@thecapitolforum.com. In this edition: • Congressional Outlook: Details are...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Public procurement restrictions exclude China and India • Apple’s recent court loss has consequences beyond the iPhone...
Financials Friday is a weekly overview of financial news and analysis of the timing and priorities of key agencies including the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Vought to testify on Capitol Hill next week. • CFPB reverses course and...
U.S. power-semiconductor maker onsemi’s (ON) planned $7 billion acquisition of Synaptics (SYNA) is set to attract rigorous scrutiny from Beijing’s antitrust enforcer since both companies generate significant revenue from major Chinese customers, including those in the strategically...
After months of political holdups, Google (GOOG) is about to be hit with two fines under the European Union’s digital rules as negotiations have stalled, according to senior EU sources familiar with the...
The TMT Weekly is a forward-looking tipsheet that covers tech policy across The Capitol Forum’s U.S. policy coverage universe, from Congress to the Courts. If you have any feedback, feel free to email...
A new letter to the European Commission, obtained by The Capitol Forum, highlights the alleged anticompetitive effects of SAP’s (SAP) updated application programming interface (API) policy and calls on the Commission to open an investigation into the...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • EU steel quota implications for MMG’s Anglo bid • EC calms worries for minority shareholdings under new merger...
State attorneys general investigating Paramount Skydance’s (PSKY) proposed acquisition of rival studio Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) are discussing which will sign onto a suit to block the $81 billion transaction, sources familiar with the matter...
A system designed to settle disputes between Big Tech platforms and their European users is causing clashes between companies and appeals...
Representative Darrell Issa, R-CA, said he plans to introduce a bill this week that would curb online piracy by blocking foreign websites violating U.S. copyright laws—the latest sign that a yearslong bipartisan effort behind this type of legislation is regaining momentum. “Our...
The TMT Weekly is a forward-looking tipsheet that covers tech policy across The Capitol Forum’s U.S. policy coverage universe, from Congress to the...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • European Commission defends call-ins • EU executive ditches controversial American...
Amazon’s (AMZN) and Microsoft’s (MSFT) cloud services are one step closer to potentially becoming subject to the EU’s digital markets rules – but the range of rules that would apply to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure is likely to be...
Existing verification processes for advertisers vary widely across social media platforms, likely contributing to the surge of scam ads and fraud facing consumers today, according to ad industry...
The TMT Weekly is a forward-looking tipsheet that covers tech policy across The Capitol Forum’s U.S. policy coverage universe, from Congress to the Courts. If you have any feedback, feel free to email...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week...
The European Commission is grappling with how to classify increasingly widespread artificial intelligence tools as it enforces the bloc’s landmark digital laws – both of which were written before the use of AI...
With pharmaceutical companies and inventors increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) for drug discovery and development, legal challenges to the validity of patents on drugs that were developed with assistance from AI may start emerging in the coming years, health care and...
DOJ antitrust division’s political leadership for months imposed tight restrictions on career staff’s investigation of Paramount Skydance’s (PSKY) $81 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), preventing agency attorneys from deposing key Paramount executives or...
The TMT Weekly is a forward-looking tipsheet that covers tech policy across The Capitol Forum’s U.S. policy coverage universe, from Congress to the Courts. If you have any feedback, feel free to email...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of EU and UK competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week...
Optimism for Democratic nominees could pave way for unshackling of Export-Import Bank; Scott says housing bill deal as soon as next week. In public, the fight over partisan agency board seats continued this week with Senate Democrats calling on President Donald Trump to drop his blockade...
Meta invoiced AI companies in recent weeks while discussing with the European Commission how to potentially resolve antitrust concerns over the company’s policy to restrict AI assistants from...
The TMT Weekly is a forward-looking tipsheet that covers tech policy across The Capitol Forum’s U.S. policy coverage universe, from Congress to the Courts. If you have any feedback, feel free to email...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, brought to you by Europe Executive Editor Javier Espinoza and Senior Correspondents Lydia O’Neal, Barbara Pianese, Joanna Sopinska and Catherine Stupp. This week, we look at the Open Markets Institute’s submission to the CMA on Paramount...
A new study by Interisle Consulting Group suggests that cybercriminal demand represents “a significant share of the domain name market”—the digital ecosystem where domain registrars and registry operators facilitate the buying, selling, and management of web...
In 2022, the Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule expected to increase competition in the hearing aid market by giving patients with mild-to-moderate hearing loss access to over-the-counter hearing aids, a potentially cheaper alternative to expensive prescription...
The bidding consortium involved in the proposed $55 billion takeover of videogame publisher Electronic Arts (EA) is expected to notify its transaction to the European Commission under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) before the summer, according to two people familiar with...
Apple’s (AAPL) court challenge to an Indian antitrust regulator’s authority to demand financial data in a dispute over its App Store’s business practices could alter how India resolves cases involving multinational corporations, legal observers...
Two Democratic lawmakers last week urged Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson to investigate Zillow (Z) and other real estate platforms over their referral practices, according to a letter obtained exclusively by The Capitol...
The TMT Weekly is a forward-looking tipsheet that covers tech policy across The Capitol Forum’s U.S. policy coverage universe, from Congress to the Courts. If you have any feedback, feel free to email...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, brought to you by Europe Executive Editor Javier Espinoza and Senior Correspondents Lydia O’Neal, Barbara Pianese, Joanna Sopinska and Catherine Stupp. This week, we look at fresh pressure on the European Commission to move ahead with a fine...
A group of state attorneys general reviewing Paramount Skydance’s (PSKY) proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is increasingly convinced that the $81 billion deal would harm industry workers, movie theater operators and streaming services by combining two of the...
Cintas (CTAS) has hired Trump-connected lobbying firm Miller Strategies to navigate antitrust scrutiny of its proposed $5.5 billion acquisition of uniform rental rival UniFirst (UNF), according to newly filed federal...
Republicans in Washington often call the EU’s digital platform rules online censorship. For those working in adult industries, sex education and women’s health, the rules should be a tool to combat suppression of lawful speech online – but many say restrictions on their posts and...
Thousands of potential cases of child sexual exploitation allegedly facilitated by gaming platform Roblox (RBLX) are still under investigation, according to plaintiffs’ attorneys, as federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) against the company continues to...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, brought to you by Europe Executive Editor Javier Espinoza and Senior Correspondents Lydia O’Neal, Barbara Pianese, Joanna Sopinska and Catherine Stupp. This week, we look at the leaked draft of the EU’s forthcoming merger guidelines. A boon...
European publishers are urging EU officials to act quickly to force Meta (META) to stop the proliferation of fraudulent advertisements impersonating reporters and media outlets across its platforms in a memorandum to the European Commission seen by The Capitol...
