Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expected to testify in $8 billion Facebook privacy lawsuitInvestors allege in their lawsuit that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users' personal information would be misused by ...
17 Jul, 2025, 12.26 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 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
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
Meta will appeal US judge's ruling in privacy fight with FTCThe fight is largely over whether an FTC judge or a district judge will decide whether the FTC can unilaterally tighten an earlier consent ...
29 Nov, 2023, 08.33 AM IST
Meta-FTC privacy lawsuit: US federal judge rules against social media giantThe FTC proposed changing a settlement reached in 2019 which required Facebook to pay $5 billion. The FTC said it would tighten that to bar...
28 Nov, 2023, 08.28 AM IST
US appeals court refuses FTC request to pause Microsoft deal for ActivisionA U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected the Federal Trade Commission's request to pause Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" ...
15 Jul, 2023, 08.14 AM IST
Microsoft asks court to reject FTC request to pause Activision dealMicrosoft said on Friday FTC had been slow to file in federal court, and thus it was inappropriate to press for a delay so late in the game.
15 Jul, 2023, 12.23 AM IST
Microsoft says it could abandon Activision deal if judge delays itThe FTC is asking Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley for a preliminary injunction, which would ban Microsoft from completing the deal before the...
23 Jun, 2023, 01.09 AM IST
Potential outcomes of FTC legal bids to block Microsoft-Activision dealMicrosoft has pressed for a decision sooner rather than later, noting that the purchase agreement has a termination date of July 18, althou...
17 Jun, 2023, 09.23 AM IST
FTC proposes ban on Meta profiting from minors' dataThe FTC's proposed changes include barring Facebook from making money off data collected on users under age 18, including in its virtual re...
03 May, 2023, 11.06 PM IST
US appeals court rejects bid by states to revive antitrust lawsuit against FacebookDozens of states led by New York asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year to reinstate the lawsuit, which US ...
27 Apr, 2023, 08.42 PM 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
Meta wins court battle to acquire VR company WithinThe FTC in July last year sought to block virtual reality giant Meta and Zuckerberg from acquiring Within as Meta is already a key player a...
05 Feb, 2023, 03.02 PM IST