On the stand, Zuckerberg says TikTok is a major competitive threatMark Zuckerberg testified for a third day in an antitrust trial, calling TikTok a major threat to Meta. The FTC accuses Meta of buying Inst...
16 Apr, 2025, 11.23 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: Why the US government wants to break up MetaBack in 2020, the FTC sued Meta (then known as Facebook), arguing that it had illegally maintained monopoly power by acquiring competitors ...
15 Apr, 2025, 02.34 PM IST
US argues Meta built a social media monopolyThe FTC has launched a landmark antitrust trial accusing Meta of illegally monopolizing social media by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp to...
15 Apr, 2025, 08.57 AM IST
Mark Zuckerberg takes stand to defend Meta against antitrust suitMark Zuckerberg, who is expected to resume testimony Tuesday, was the first witness in the trial, Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platform...
15 Apr, 2025, 07.24 AM IST
What to know about Donald Trump's antitrust efforts against tech giantsThe Trump administration's antitrust efforts continue, with the FTC suing Meta over its Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions, and the Justic...
14 Apr, 2025, 12.24 PM IST
US prepares to challenge Meta's social media dominanceMeta has countered that it faces ample competition in social media from TikTok, Snap, Reddit and LinkedIn, and that regulators approved the...
14 Apr, 2025, 08.57 AM 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
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 pushes back on US FTC's bid to amend 2020 privacy settlementMeta disclosed the bugs in July 2019, the Facebook-parent said in a filing on Thursday, adding it had spent $5.5 billion on its privacy pro...
05 Apr, 2024, 08.18 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
Amazon set to meet with US FTC ahead of potential antitrust lawsuitThe FTC began probing Amazon during former President Donald Trump's administration when the government decided to investigate Amazon, Googl...
08 Aug, 2023, 08.14 AM 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
As regulators block tech deals, they increasingly look to the futureNow regulators have reversed course: When it comes to tech, they want to see into the future and beat companies to getting there.
28 Apr, 2023, 12.37 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
US formally ends fight against Meta's purchase of VR content maker Within UnlimitedThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which lost a fight in court to block the acquisition, said in a filing that it has decided to formally ...
25 Feb, 2023, 08.15 AM IST
US judge denies FTC request to stop Meta from acquiring VR firm WithinJudge Edward Davila of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said the FTC had failed to show that Meta would have e...
04 Feb, 2023, 09.45 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