antitrust
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Big Tech Made Little Mergers and U.S. Antitrust Authorities Aren’t Too Happy
The United States has signalled greater scrutiny of merger reporting requirements for big tech with revelations this week that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft made a total of 616 mergers or acquisitions they didn’t report to authorities. All of them were over $US1 million, and almost all didn’t qualify for reporting. Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino…
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How Google Ruined the Internet (According to Texas)
Among all of the antitrust probes facing Google right now, the case dropped on Wednesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stands out for a few reasons. First, it focuses on the tech giant’s dominance in digital ads, rather than focusing on search the way that the Justice Department and more than 30 states have…
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Everybody Wants a Piece of Facebook
The day after the FTC and dozens of Attorneys General filed two separate suits against Facebook over it anticompetitive track record, the company’s being slammed with yet another antitrust probe — this time, from Germany’s antitrust regulator. Specifically, the country’s Federal Cartel Office (otherwise known as The Bundeskartellamt) announced plans to investigate the tie between…
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Facebook Might Be Slammed With An Antitrust Suit As Soon As Next Week
A coalition of 40 different U.S. states — spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James — have plans to file an antitrust suit against Facebook in the coming week, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.