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
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
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
Explained: Why are Apple, Amazon, Google and Meta facing antitrust lawsuits and huge fines?The United States Justice Department is set to file a lawsuit against Apple for potentially breaching antitrust laws. Antitrust laws origin...
24 Jan, 2024, 11.38 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
Antitrust battle: Google, Amazon, Apple face heat amid growing market dominationThe United States FTC has sued Amazon, arguing it broke antitrust laws, the Justice Department sued Google in another case over its control...
03 Oct, 2023, 04.11 PM IST
Meta defeats photo app's antitrust case in US courtUS District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in Brooklyn, New York, federal court said in her 67-page order that Phhhoto Inc had failed to timely bring...
31 Mar, 2023, 09.01 AM 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
Law firms in Meta antitrust lawsuit clash over lead roleThe underlying case involves class claims from consumers and advertisers that Facebook exploited user data to maintain its market power. Th...
07 Feb, 2023, 04.22 PM IST
Google faces greater threat of forced ad unit sale from US lawsuitThe complaint filed Tuesday in a Virginia federal court by the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division attempts to compel Google to sel...
27 Jan, 2023, 05.58 PM IST
EU antitrust regulators about to charge Meta, sources sayThe Commission began an investigation into the social network company in June last year. Britain's competition agency also began an enquiry...
10 Nov, 2022, 05.12 PM IST
FTC files slimmed-down complaint in fight with Meta over Within acquisitionThe Federal Trade Commission had filed a lawsuit in July saying that Meta's acquisition of Within Unlimited Inc would "tend to create a mon...
08 Oct, 2022, 05.58 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
Facebook's VR Oculus business probed by US statesNew York, North Carolina and Tennessee were among the states involved in the inquiry. A group of almost 50 states also asked an appeals cou...
15 Jan, 2022, 10.06 AM IST
How Big Tech is faring against US lawsuits and probesBig Tech platforms have been hit with a series of antitrust lawsuits by the US federal government and states on charges they are operating ...
08 Dec, 2021, 08.44 AM IST