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
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
Google loses bid to end US antitrust case over digital advertisingGoogle had argued for a win without a trial, saying that antitrust laws do not block companies from refusing to deal with rivals and that r...
15 Jun, 2024, 10.15 AM IST
Judge rules Google will not face jury trial in US digital ads caseGoogle avoids jury trial by paying $2.3 million to U.S. government for alleged digital advertising dominance, preventing the first-ever civ...
08 Jun, 2024, 12.02 PM IST
Google to face US antitrust trial over digital ads in SeptemberA U.S. federal judge has set a trial date of Sept. 9, 2024, for the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department and a coalition of states ...
06 Feb, 2024, 07.49 AM IST
Google, Epic Games face off as app antitrust trial nears endAlphabet's Google on Monday will try to persuade a federal jury in San Francisco to reject antitrust claims by "Fortnite" maker Epic Games ...
11 Dec, 2023, 08.40 PM IST
How Microsoft's legal legacy shapes the antitrust case against GoogleWhile cross-examining a witness for the Justice Department, John Schmidtlein, Google's lead trial lawyer, tried to describe how this suit d...
14 Nov, 2023, 06.56 PM IST
Alphabet, Tinder-owner Match settle Google Play antitrust claims before US trialIn a statement, Google said it was "pleased to reach a settlement agreement with Match Group." Google also recently settled related antitru...
01 Nov, 2023, 10.03 AM IST
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai set to testify in Google Play trialPichai and Epic’s CEO Tim Sweeney have been listed as witnesses in a trial scheduled to start Nov. 6 in San Francisco federal court over wh...
07 Oct, 2023, 11.39 PM IST
'Unprecedented' secrecy in Google trial as tech giants push to limit disclosuresNot only has Google argued for the landmark trial to be largely closed off to the public, but so have other companies that are involved, su...
27 Sep, 2023, 01.06 AM IST
US argues Google wants too much information kept secret in antitrust trialThe government is seeking to show that Alphabet's Google broke antitrust law to maintain its dominance in online search. The search dominan...
19 Sep, 2023, 01.00 AM IST
The Google antitrust trial is really about the future of AIThe Google antitrust trial, which began last week, is ostensibly focused on the past - on a series of deals that Google made with other com...
18 Sep, 2023, 11.35 PM IST
US justice department blasts Google's monopolistic tactics as antitrust trial beginsGoogle denied that it had illegally used agreements to exclude its search competitors and said it had simply provided a superior product, a...
13 Sep, 2023, 08.27 AM IST
Who's who in the Google monopoly trialA trial to determine if Google abused its monopoly in online search, which begins Tuesday, is set to lay bare how the internet search giant...
12 Sep, 2023, 08.57 AM IST
Apple cannot ban links to outside App Store payments, US appeals court saysThe U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeal upheld a 2021 order in an antitrust case brought by "Fortnite" creator Epic Games that could require A...
25 Apr, 2023, 08.12 AM IST
First pre-trial hearing in Microsoft-Activision case set for January 3The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces antitrust law, asked a judge to block the transaction earlier this month, arguing that t...
31 Dec, 2022, 12.32 PM IST