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Traditional antitrust law is ineffective against big tech companies, whose products often are free. Scholars and activists propose other ways to rein in Silicon Valley giants. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a4ecd1b6292bd460dcf5bb6/master/pass/Antitrust-BigTech-FeatureArt.jpg Feed: All Latest
Google plans to discontinue its QPX Express service featuring airline data from ITA Software. https://media.wired.com/photos/59fa1336b54d6a60c6cb1953/master/pass/GoogleFlightHP2-97236559.jpg Feed: All Latest
AP Photo/Evan Vucci WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has selected Joseph Simons, an antitrust attorney from a Washington law firm, to head the Federal Trade Commission, a White House official said on Wednesday. Trump is expected to nominate Simons to the agency, along with Noah Phillips and Rohit Chopra to be FTC commissioners, the […]
Gab, an alternative social networking platform, is suing Google over claims of antitrust violations. In the aftermath of the fatal rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last month, major tech companies began removing perceived hate sites from their services. Gab.ai, a social network popular with the “alt-right” movement, filed a lawsuit against Google Friday for removing it […]
In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, Yelp says Google is scraping photos from Yelp’s listings for its own search results https://media.wired.com/photos/59b72cc389c1184f4a0c283b/master/pass/GoogleYelpHP-839615588.jpg Feed: All Latest
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Google is facing heavy antitrust regulation risk from around the world. If hit by these regulations, the company could have to pay more to acquire users, putting a dent in its bottom line. Google made headlines after it was served with the largest fine in the history of the European Commission, […]
Google better buckle-up for the long antirust road that likely lies ahead following its $ 2.72 billion fine by the European Union this summer. To understand why, one can point to the current antitrust case involving the EU and Intel. Today, an EU court ruled in favor of Intel’s appeal of its $ 1.27 billion […]
Thomson Reuters LUXEMBOURG, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Europe’s top court on Wednesday told a lower court to re-examine U.S. chipmaker Intel’s appeal against a 1.06-billion-euro ($ 1.3 billion) EU antitrust fine. “The Court of Justice sets aside the judgment of the General Court, which had upheld the fine of 1.06 billion euros imposed on Intel […]
REUTERS/Stephen Lam BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google has submitted details of how it plans to stop favoring its shopping service to comply with a European Union antitrust order, EU regulators said on Tuesday. The world’s most popular Internet search engine, a unit of Alphabet Inc, had earlier on Tuesday said it would meet the EU deadline to […]
(Reuters) — iPhone chip supplier Qualcomm faces a fresh set of antitrust allegations from a group of four companies that assemble the iPhone and other products on behalf of Apple. Foxconn parent Hon Hai Precision Industry, Wistron Corp, Compal Electronics, and Pegatron Corp alleged that Qualcomm violated two sections of the Sherman Act, a U.S. […]
