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The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly working on an antitrust lawsuit that it could potentially bring against Facebook
The agency has been investigating potential monopolistic behavior by Facebook for more than a year …
Tyler Sonnemaker
Sep 16 2020 02:26 IST
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Facebook hit with 2 massive antitrust lawsuits from the FTC and 46 states seeking to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp
The two lawsuits revolve around Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp and could have ma…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Katie C…
Dec 10 2020 08:59 IST
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Facebook reportedly offered to help another company build a rival social network to fight off an antitrust lawsuit
Facebook lawyers floated the idea days before investigators filed antitrust lawsuits against the co…
Allana Akhtar
Dec 24 2020 17:51 IST
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Facebook called off a deal to buy Houseparty because of fears it would attract unwanted antitrust scrutiny
Mark Zuckerberg has voiced his opposition to the idea of breaking up the company, saying Facebook's…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
Aug 13 2019 10:00 IST
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Facebook is rebranding Instagram and WhatsApp as 'Instagram from Facebook' and 'WhatsApp from Facebook'
It's a striking change, and seems likely to be controversial. Facebook's brand has been battered ov…
Rob Price
Aug 02 2019 22:45 IST
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Chairman of House antitrust subcommittee calls for Facebook to be broken up after big tech hearing: 'classic monopoly behavior'
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers that Facebook saw Instagram as both "a competitor and a…
Paige Leskin
Jul 30 2020 20:10 IST
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Experts say the antitrust suits against Facebook may not change anything, but they're still a 'big deal' and signal that the US government will no longer look the other way
The antitrust lawsuits may not change anything for Facebook, but they do indicate a reckoning in te…
Katie Canales
Dec 12 2020 21:59 IST
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Big tech warned by top regulator: We will break you up if we have to
Some politicians, including Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, have voiced their s…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
Aug 14 2019 09:39 IST
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The Justice Department just slapped Google with a landmark antitrust lawsuit. That could be bad news for Amazon, Facebook, and Apple.
If Google loses, lawmakers could be encouraged to rein in other tech giants, potentially going as f…
Allana Akhtar,Hugh Langley
Oct 21 2020 01:01 IST
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Fifty state attorneys general have launched a formal probe into whether Google has engaged in anti-competitive practices in its ads business
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal also confirmed that state AGs - led by New York Attorney General…
Nick Bastone
Sep 09 2019 18:12 IST
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Facebook is being sued by 4 tech firms who want Mark Zuckerberg to give up control and sell his majority stake
The four companies are online marketplace-cum-social network Cir.cl; identity verification firm Bee…
Charlie Wood
Jan 17 2020 13:37 IST
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Facebook slides after states launch new antitrust probe, intensifying scrutiny on big tech
"Even the largest social media platform in the world must follow the law and respect consumers," Ja…
Daniel Strauss
Sep 06 2019 16:44 IST
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US regulators are talking to founders of companies Facebook acquired as part of the government's new antitrust probe
In June 2019, the FTC opened its antitrust investigation into Facebook, and the company disclosed i…
Rob Price
Aug 01 2019 19:09 IST
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Amazon faces a fresh anti-trust investigation in Germany
In an interview with the German media outlet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the President…
Aug 17 2020 04:32 IST
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The FTC is reportedly considering deposing Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg in its antitrust investigation into Facebook
The FTC is looking into whether Facebook has acted anticompetitively — and it may seek to speak to …
Rob Price
Jul 17 2020 21:54 IST
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Biden is going after corporate giants for being too big. Here's who he's targeted so far.
Biden's administration has launched antitrust investigations into large corporations like Google, A…
Katie Balevic
Jun 07 2024 19:01 IST
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Big Tech's CEOs testified in a historic antitrust hearing last week. Now what happens?
The next big thing to watch out for will be a report released by Congress in the coming weeks, whic…
Katie Canales
Aug 01 2020 13:28 IST
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The head of the Justice Department division reportedly preparing an antitrust investigation into Google used to be a lobbyist defending Google against antitrust concerns
According to a source on Capitol Hill who spoke to Business Insider, the DOJ's investigation will n…
Nick Bastone
Jun 03 2019 21:28 IST
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ANTITRUST AND BIG TECH: The three most likely outcomes of the regulatory clampdown on big tech and what it means for digital media
In Antitrust and Big Tech, Business Insider Intelligence examines how the antitrust investigations …
Mariel Soto Reyes
Sep 30 2019 13:35 IST
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FTC chair Lina Khan explained how Americans lost their privacy protections to Big Tech
FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a "60 Minutes" interview that hundreds of acquisitions by Big Tech play…
Lloyd Lee
Sep 23 2024 05:36 IST