Parler, the social network known for embracing many of the people banned by Twitter, YouTube and other tech platforms, has officially gone dark after Amazon Web Services stopped supporting the site.
The Amazon unplugging follows the removal of the Parler app from the Apple and Google app stores over the weekend. The…
Google was hit with another antitrust lawsuit on Thursday, as 35 states other other U.S. territories claim that the internet giant has stifled competition in its dominance of web search.
“As the gateway to the internet, Google has systematically degraded the ability of other companies to access consumers,” the lawsuit…
New York Attorney General Leticia James led 48 states Wednesday in filing a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Facebook as the Feds, regulators and lawmakers seriously turn up the heat on social media and internet giants.
In an all-out offensive, the Federal Trade Commission filed a separate lawsuit against the…
Ruth Porat, CFO of Google, said an antitrust suit the Department of Justice and 11 state attorneys general filed against the search giant last month is meritless.
Google dominates search because it's what users want, not because rivals can’t get a foothold, she insisted during a Q&A at The New York Times DealBook…
The Justice Department and the attorneys general of 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit on Tuesday against Google, claiming that the internet giant abused its market power in search and advertising.
“Google has maintained its monopoly power through exclusionary practices that are harmful to competition,” Deputy…
A House Subcommittee has concluded after a 16-month probe that four tech giants – Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google — are monopolists and wants Congress to change antitrust laws to force the companies to split off businesses or make it harder for them to buy smaller rivals.
Basically, the group needs to be reined in…
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), who chairs a House subcommittee on antitrust and competition, is proposing that the next coronavirus relief legislation include a moratorium on corporate mergers and acquisitions.
“As millions of businesses struggle to stay afloat, private equity firms and dominant corporations are…
The Justice Department will ask a federal court to eliminate the Paramount consent decrees, the 71-year-old restrictions on major distributors’ control of the exhibition pipeline.
The elimination of the decrees could alter the dynamics of the business, and perhaps lead to further consolidation. But the DOJ, which has…
Comcast is facing an antitrust lawsuit from a Denver regional sports network, which claims that the cable giant is using its market power to try to extract much more favorable terms that would put it out of business.
Altitude Sports and Entertainment, which produces and telecasts games from the the Colorado Avalanche…
Attorneys general from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico appeared in front of the Supreme Court on Monday to unveil a major antitrust investigation of Google, the latest scrutiny in Washington facing the tech giant.
The investigation, which involves top state legal officials from both parties…
Facebook, already under scrutiny for its data practices and vulnerability to malevolent global forces intent on weaponizing its networks, is now facing antitrust investigations in eight states and the District of Columbia.
Among the areas the states will investigate are Facebook’s impact on advertising prices, data…
Makan Delrahim, the Donald Trump appointee at the U.S. Department of Justice, who heads the antitrust division and led the lawsuit seeking to block AT&T’s Time Warner acquisition, has a new target: tech giants.
Delrahim’s boss, Attorney General William Barr, has increased rhetoric questioning tech company methods in…
