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
Donald Trump admin to press ahead with Amazon, Meta antitrust casesIn an interview with FOX Business, newly appointed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson confirmed that ongoing cases agains...
21 Feb, 2025, 07.49 AM IST
Amazon wins partial dismissal of US antitrust lawsuitA federal court in Seattle partly dismissed the FTC's lawsuit against Amazon, which accused the retailer of maintaining illegal monopolies....
01 Oct, 2024, 07.22 AM 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 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
US sues Amazon in landmark monopoly case after four-year probeThe lawsuit had been expected after years of complaints that Amazon.com and other tech giants abused their dominance of search, social medi...
26 Sep, 2023, 11.31 PM IST
Amazon is about to face its biggest challenge yet from the US FTCIn the coming weeks, FTC plans to file a far-reaching antitrust suit focused on Amazon’s core online marketplace, according to documents re...
29 Jun, 2023, 03.59 PM IST
US will not challenge Amazon's plan to buy One Medical: FTC officialThe FTC official said the agency planned to send a pre-consummation warning letter that would say it still had specific concerns about the ...
22 Feb, 2023, 04.40 PM IST
Meta to delay closing acquisition of Within Unlimited by one monthMeta has agreed to push back the closing by one month or until the first day after the court rules on U.S. Federal Trade Commission's (FTC)...
20 Dec, 2022, 12.19 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
Meta Platforms agrees to delay closing Within deal given US challengeThe Federal Trade Commission had filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the deal in July, and had asked a judge in federal court in San Francisco ...
06 Aug, 2022, 07.49 AM IST
US sues to stop Facebook from buying WithinThe FTC, which voted 3-2 to approve the request to seek an injunction, argued that the acquisition of Within by Facebook would "tend to cre...
28 Jul, 2022, 08.54 AM IST
Twitter to pay $150 million to settle with US over privacy, security violationsTwitter's settlement covers allegations that it misrepresented the "security and privacy" of user data between May 2013 and September 2019,...
26 May, 2022, 10.17 AM IST
Facebook loses request to throw out US monopoly caseUS District Judge James Boasberg in Washington denied Facebook's motion to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission's revised antitrust complai...
12 Jan, 2022, 11.41 PM 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