FTC chair alleges partisan filtering by Gmail; Google says spam filters not ideologicalRepublicans have long accused big tech companies of discriminating against and suppressing conservative views, an assertion the companies d...
29 Aug, 2025, 07.24 AM IST
What to know about Trump's antitrust efforts against tech giantsThe Trump administration continues tough antitrust scrutiny of tech giants. Google faces rulings over ad tech and Chrome, while Meta defend...
18 Apr, 2025, 08.54 AM IST
At Meta trial, Sheryl Sandberg defends tactics with rivalsSheryl Sandberg, former Meta COO, testified in the FTC's landmark antitrust trial accusing Meta of illegally suppressing competition by blo...
17 Apr, 2025, 12.00 PM IST
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
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
FTC seeking details on Amazon deal with AI startup AdeptThe FTC is investigating Amazon’s hiring of Adept's David Luan amid AI competition with Google and Microsoft, following a January inquiry. ...
16 Jul, 2024, 08.48 PM IST
After long peace, Big Tech faces US antitrust reckoningAfter more than a decade of leaving Big Tech largely to itself, US antitrust enforcers have cranked up the heat, with several high-profile ...
14 Apr, 2024, 06.00 PM IST
Tech companies including Google gripe about unfair cloud practicesGoogle echoed the sentiment in its own filing, saying that "licensing terms enforced by Microsoft, Oracle, and other legacy on-premises sof...
22 Jun, 2023, 09.39 AM IST
US gets gamier on antitrust activismThe US sets the bar higher on consumer protection, and companies like Google have been investigated but not sued for market behaviour that ...
12 Dec, 2022, 11.08 PM IST
Facebook asks court to dismiss US government, states antitrust casesThe FTC and states accused Facebook of breaking antitrust law to keep smaller competitors at bay and snapping up social media rivals, like ...
11 Mar, 2021, 11.49 AM IST
US sues Facebook over its WhatsApp, Instagram acquisition; alleges it crushed smaller rivalsThe landmark antitrust lawsuits, announced by the Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General Letitia James, mark the second maj...
11 Dec, 2020, 06.45 AM IST
Facebook accord with US to elevate privacy oversight to boardThe board changes would come in addition to a record penalty of $3 billion to $5 billion, which Facebook disclosed last week.
03 May, 2019, 11.17 PM IST
US Senate committee summons FB, Google, Twitter CEOs to testify on data misuseThe hearing will broadly cover privacy standards for the collection, retention and dissemination of consumer data for commercial use.
27 Mar, 2018, 04.04 PM IST
CCI probe on Google's anti-competitive practices goes sluggishCCI says the matter is currently with the Director General’s office and that the CCI does not interfere with its investigation.
12 Jun, 2013, 04.07 AM IST
- US government drops Google privacy probe
The US govt has closed its investigation into Google's Street View privacy violations after the web search giants announced a string of str...
28 Oct, 2010, 11.01 AM IST
- Google 'screwed up' in capturing private Wi-Fi data: Brin
Google "screwed up" by accidentally gathering private wireless data while taking pictures for its "Street View" mapping service, co-founder...
20 May, 2010, 05.22 AM IST
- Privacy group urges probe of Google cloud services
A US electronic privacy group has called for the FTC to investigate security and privacy of Google's Web-based products such as email and p...
19 Mar, 2009, 04.27 AM IST