US FTC sues Uber over allegedly deceptive practices in subscription serviceThe US Federal Trade Commission has sued Uber, alleging it enrolled customers in its Uber One subscription without consent and made cancell...
22 Apr, 2025, 11.16 AM IST
Google loses online ad monopoly case. But it's just one of many antitrust battles against big techBig Tech firms including Google, Meta, Apple, and Amazon are facing major antitrust lawsuits in the US. Accused of monopolistic practices, ...
19 Apr, 2025, 11.47 AM IST
Meta faces historic antitrust trial that could force it to break off Instagram, WhatsAppThe looming antitrust trial will be the first big test of President Donald Trump's Federal Trade Commission's ability to challenge Big Tech...
14 Apr, 2025, 04.51 PM IST
Meta will face antitrust trial over Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitionsThis lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission is because of the claim that the social media apps were brought about in order to quell any...
13 Nov, 2024, 08.14 PM IST
Amazon wins partial dismissal of US antitrust lawsuitA federal court in Seattle partly dismissed the FTC's lawsuit against Amazon, which accused the retailer of maintaining illegal monopolies....
01 Oct, 2024, 07.22 AM IST
US antitrust case against Google is just the startUnder the Trump administration, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission started investigating Amazon, Apple, Google and Met...
04 May, 2024, 08.29 AM IST
Meta cannot delay US FTC from reopening privacy probe, court saysThe Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in its order found that Meta had not shown its challenge was likely t...
30 Mar, 2024, 09.01 AM IST
US judge to hear Meta privacy dispute with FTC next monthThe agency proposed tightening a 2019 consent agreement, that had forced Facebook, which became Meta in 2021, to pay a $5 billion penalty.
12 Dec, 2023, 12.05 AM IST
Meta asks appeals court to tell FTC it cannot reopen privacy caseThe dispute stretches back to May, when the FTC proposed tightening a 2019 consent agreement to prohibit Meta from making money off young u...
30 Nov, 2023, 08.26 PM IST
Amazon set to meet with FTC ahead of potential antitrust lawsuitAmazon.com is set to meet next week with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ahead of a potential long-awaited antitrust lawsuit agains...
07 Aug, 2023, 11.52 PM IST
EBay slams 'alarming' Meta subpoena in FTC monopoly caseEBay's lawyers said in a filing in the San Francisco federal court that Meta is demanding confidential business information about eBay's pr...
15 Mar, 2023, 08.41 AM IST
Meta to delay closing acquisition of Within Unlimited by one monthMeta has agreed to push back the closing by one month or until the first day after the court rules on U.S. Federal Trade Commission's (FTC)...
20 Dec, 2022, 12.19 PM IST
FTC files shorter complaint against Meta over Within acquisitionThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had filed a lawsuit in July saying that Meta's acquisition of Within Unlimited Inc would "tend to create...
08 Oct, 2022, 12.56 PM IST
FTC agrees to remove Mark Zuckerberg as defendant in antitrust suitIn June, the FTC filed its complaint with U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to prevent Meta and Zuckerberg from a...
24 Aug, 2022, 10.16 AM IST
Meta Platforms agrees to delay closing Within deal given US challengeThe Federal Trade Commission had filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the deal in July, and had asked a judge in federal court in San Francisco ...
06 Aug, 2022, 07.49 AM IST
US sues to stop Facebook from buying WithinThe FTC, which voted 3-2 to approve the request to seek an injunction, argued that the acquisition of Within by Facebook would "tend to cre...
28 Jul, 2022, 08.54 AM IST
US judge rejects Facebook request to dismiss FTC antitrust lawsuitThe FTC's high-profile legal fight with Facebook represents one of the biggest challenges the government has brought against a tech company...
12 Jan, 2022, 08.57 AM IST