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The EU is expected to review Nvidia’s (NVDA) proposed $12.9 billion Hugging Face buyout—and critics are already raising concerns about the deal
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: • National Security Outlook:...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Booking.com wants DSA investigators to help sort its standstill over email address sharing under the DMA • Brussels...
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: Credit Bureau vertical integration poses “existential threat” to FICO. FTC,...
The EU’s proposal to challenge U.S. tech dominance is causing upset among companies beyond the American giants it intends to...
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: • Media Outlook: The NBA’s...
Three politicians poised to win governorships in the November midterm elections could, alongside their state legislatures, chart the future of tech policy over the next two years as the White House clashes with a potentially Democratic...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • UK lends EU political cover amid backlash against Brussels tech regulation • DSA probe into Booking.com targets scams •...
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: • Genius Act implementation allows for some forms of stablecoin yield,...
China’s antitrust agency has demonstrated a new approach in investigating two recent closely watched horizontal mergers—one that involves an extended review timeline paired with a light- touch behavioral remedy fix, some antitrust lawyers and experts told The Capitol...
Nexfibre’s proposed acquisition of Substantial, the parent of UK fiber network operator Netomnia, is testing how prepared the Competition and Markets Authority is to intervene in...
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: • Media Outlook: The chances of a...
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 takes new steps in informal Nvidia antitrust investigation • EU trade ministers discuss 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...
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’s effort to swap U.S. tech for European rivals is proving to be a bumpy ride • Scottish court squashes Aramark...
Schneider Electric’s (EPA: SU) $22.6 billion bid for Boston’s PTC (PTC) would put software that holds the U.S. Army’s weapons data under a French company with extensive operations in...
Companies providing customer service chatbots are warning new WhatsApp charges could raise their costs and make it harder to compete with Meta’s (META) own artificial intelligence...
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: • Media Outlook: FCC Chair Brendan...
The proposal to introduce a flat EU market surveillance fee on imported e-commerce goods, primarily targeting shipments from China, is included in a draft of the European Product Act seen by The Capitol Forum. The measure is intended to level the playing field by closing regulatory...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • JD.com/Ceconomy set for clearance, avoiding escalation with China • Video game companies probed ahead of legislative...
Welcome to The Antitrust Agenda, our weekly analysis of timing and priorities at the FTC, DOJ, and state AG offices. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Heightened antitrust action from Congressional Democrats. • Elections experts express high confidence in Democrats...
*A select excerpt: State AGs using antitrust lawsuits to rein in PBMs. Florida AG James Uthmeier last week filed another antitrust lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers—his second in less than a month—in a growing bipartisan effort to use antitrust laws to lower drug prices. The...
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: • SEC guidance boosts private credit lawsuits. • Trump’s comptroller...
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: • Congress Outlook: Representative...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • UK wants Google to offer search alternatives, potentially including AI chatbots • Senior EU official urges more national...
The European Commission and Booking.com are deadlocked over a key issue for hoteliers under the EU’s digital markets rules even as the enforcer is set to announce that the hotel reservation giant has largely fallen in line after extensive discussions, two sources familiar with the...
As EU member states start discussions on the bloc’s main proposal to reduce its reliance on U.S. tech, Danish officials want to give the European Commission more powers to designate the cloud providers deemed secure enough to handle sensitive government data, according to a document...
The European Commission is preparing to hit Apple (AAPL) with its second fine under the EU’s digital markets rules as soon as this year, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The company breached the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) by imposing restrictive contract...
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: • Congress Outlook: House Democrats...
This is The Capitol Forum’s Big Tech tracker, where we follow investigations and other proceedings targeting technology giants like Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG), Meta (META) and more across the EU. Here, we monitor and bring you up to date on cases launched under the bloc’s Digital...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Remedies no longer an option in MMG/Anglo American nickel deal • Our conference on the EU’s digital markets rules sets...
Iowa will seek to intervene in the litigation against the Paramount Skydance (PSKY)/Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) merger if the Supreme Court declines in the coming weeks to let it pursue a complaint against Democratic state attorneys general trying to block the deal, a source close to the...
Skyworks Solutions’ (SWKS) proposed $22 billion acquisition of rival electronic components maker Qorvo (QRVO) is facing an important inflection point since the Chinese antitrust regulator’s phase 3 review of the transaction is about to expire in coming weeks, 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 editorial@thecapitolforum.com. In this edition: • Congressional Outlook: Former top...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Commission ignores Chinese blocking orders • Officials are bringing browsers together to tackle a longtime digital rule...
PriceLabs, a revenue management software platform for short-term rentals and hotels previously reported on by The Capitol Forum, offers competitor comparison tools on a granular level that could give rise to allegations the company engages in collusive...
The Dutch antitrust watchdog is scrutinizing Google’s online advertising transparency practices and seeking input from publishers—giving EU officials an assist in their enforcement of the bloc’s digital markets...
The 17 state attorneys general who sued Google (GOOG) over the allegedly anticompetitive conduct of its online advertising technology businesses can soon press for a trial date now that a federal judge has decided a related DOJ case involving the tech...
Texas Instruments’ (TXN) proposed $7.5 billion acquisition of chip designer Silicon Labs (SLAB) is slated for a phase 2 review by China’s antitrust authority as early as this month, sources familiar with the matter...
Regulators from EU countries are pressing Google (GOOG) and Meta (META) to stop running advertisements for unlicensed gambling services on their platforms, arguing the Big Tech companies may be violating the bloc’s online platform...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Long-awaited ruling on blocked Booking-Etraveli merger lands • Aramark pursues high-profile challenge in missed deadline...
A Federal Claims Court judge’s ruling this week will delay—and could even derail—Ligado Networks’ effort to seek $39 billion from the U.S. government for allegedly preventing the company from deploying spectrum for a cell-phone...
As U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta decides whether to dismiss litigation targeting Google’s (GOOG) AI Overviews, the publisher plaintiffs may have reason for optimism after the judge expressed concern about the search giant’s AI-powered...
Advertising technology giant The Trade Desk (TTD) helps marketers target millions of consumers through audience data segments uploaded by third-party providers. A Capitol Forum investigation found that hundreds of these segments appear to denote potentially sensitive characteristics—...
The European Commission shouldn’t be the sole public enforcer of the EU’s digital markets rules, according to the long-sitting head of Germany’s competition watchdog Andreas Mundt, adding that giving member states enforcement powers could make it easier for national authorities to...
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: Congress Outlook: Some interesting...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of European tech and competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Google critics fear EU will be slow to ramp up pressure after July penalties • Ethylene cartel judgments cast shadow over...
President Donald Trump confidante and online provocateur Laura Loomer contends there is self- dealing involved in the government’s settlement talks with Ligado Networks centered around Deputy Defense Secretary Steve...
Western Union (WU) faces an open-ended review by California’s financial regulator of the company’s proposed $500 million acquisition of rival International Money Express...
A settlement of Ligado Networks’ $39 billion suit against the U.S. government is still possible despite the company on Friday saying that it would seek discovery in the litigation, sources familiar with the matter...
As Australia, the UK, Canada and other countries move forward with social media bans or restrictions on users 16 and under, similar efforts in the U.S. are stalled, and Big Tech companies like Meta (META), X, Google (GOOG) and Snap (SNAP) have been lobbying against federal legislation by...
