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Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook are too powerful and will likely emerge from the coronavirus pandemic even stronger, the head of a US congressional antitrust committee said Wednesday at a high-stakes hearing featuring ...
Jul 29, 2020
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Big tech companies have long rebuffed attempts by the U.S. federal government to scrutinize or scale back their market power. Now they face a scrappy new coalition as well: prosecutors from nearly all 50 states.
Sep 10, 2019
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Amazon.com Inc. and Lina Khan have a fraught history. Khan made her name as a law student in 2017 with an article in The Yale Law Journal that made an example of Amazon to argue for a broad re-imagining of U.S. antitrust ...
Sep 26, 2023
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The Justice Department said Wednesday that two directors resigned from Nextdoor's board in response to the department's efforts to enforce an antitrust law aimed at barring executives from holding similar positions at rival ...
Aug 16, 2023
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The Justice Department and eight states filed an antitrust suit against Google on Tuesday, seeking to shatter its alleged monopoly on the entire ecosystem of online advertising as a hurtful burden to advertisers, consumers ...
Jan 24, 2023
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Google will fund a $90-million settlement to small app developers who had alleged the technology giant abused its market position, according to statements seen by AFP Friday.
Jul 1, 2022
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Twitter's acceptance of Elon Musk's roughly $44 billion takeover bid brings the billionaire Tesla CEO one step closer to owning the social media platform.
Apr 26, 2022
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Amazon is launching a racial equity audit to examine any uneven effects of its policies, programs and practices on hourly employees.
Apr 19, 2022
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Amazon will end its "Sold by Amazon" program after an investigation by Washington state's attorney general found it was anticompetitive and violated antitrust laws, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
Jan 26, 2022
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Three bright and driven women with ground-breaking ideas made significant—if very different—marks on the embattled tech industry in 2021.
Jan 4, 2022
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