Live Nation reportedly reaches settlement with DOJ over Ticketmaster
is jumping in premarket trading on Monday after reports that it has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice over an antitrust lawsuit that could have forced the company to sell Ticketmaste...
“Fortnite” returning to the Play Store worldwide after Google lowers fees and opens Android
After years of fighting with “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, is hitting reset on Android — cutting Play Store fees, loosening its grip on billing, and making it easier for rival app stores to set up sho...
The DOJ thinks that Live Nation-Ticketmaster has a monopoly on the live music industry. Could it have a point?
During his opening statement on Tuesday, David Dahlquist, attorney for the US Justice Department , told jurors: “The concert ticket industry is broken, in fact the concert industry itself is broken. I...
Nvidia is everything good and bad about the US stock market in 2026
All the good and bad things about the US stock market in 2026 can be found in Nvidia. On steroids. The character of the AI trade has changed this year, becoming much more zero (even negative!) sum. Tr...
Looking into its Warner Bros. acquisition, the DOJ probes Netflix for anticompetitive tactics
As the Department of Justice probes proposed $83 billion acquisition of , it has reportedly subpoenaed at least one other entertainment company to investigate whether the streamer has taken part in a...
Netflix’s Sarandos: Big Tech is trying to “run away with the television business”
co-CEO Ted Sarandos testified before the Senate antitrust subcommittee in a packed hearing room on Tuesday, reflecting the intense public and regulatory interest in the company’s efforts to acquire Wa...
Report: Meta pouring $65 million into PACs backing pro-AI state candidates
With a pro-tech, pro-AI administration in Washington, DC, has decided the next battlegrounds that it needs to flood with cash are in individual states.
Analyst: Investors should brace for Europe’s breakup with US Big Tech
The signs are there: the French government has restricted the use of for its employees. In Germany, the state of Schleswig-Holstein is ending the use of Teams among its workers. As US-EU tensions ri...
FTC will appeal Meta antitrust case
Only a few months after successfully defending itself from an FTC antitrust lawsuit, may be heading back to court. Today, the FTC announced that it would appeal the decision, reopening a yearslong su...
Opponents of the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal take fight to Europe
Struggling to gain a foothold in the US, the groups opposing $83 billion acquisition of are mounting a European assault. CEO David Ellison this week met with top European film industry execs and Fre...
Tesla’s Elon Musk says AI deal with Apple gives Google “unreasonable concentration of power”
has selected Google’s Gemini AI model to power the next generation of Siri — and and xAI CEO Elon Musk is not pleased. Responding on X to Google’s announcement, Musk wrote that the deal “seems like a...
Blackstone and Invitation Homes get hammered as Trump calls for ban on Wall Street buying single-family homes
Shares of and dove early Wednesday afternoon after President Trump called on Congress to pass a law banning large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.
Epic scores two victories as “Fortnite” returns to Google Play and appeals court keeps injunction against Apple
“Fortnite” maker Epic Games notched two wins Thursday in its drawn-out battle against Big Tech’s app stores. “Fortnite” returned to the Play app store in the US, Reuters reports , as Epic continues w...
The Netflix-Warner Bros. deal now faces a wall of opposition
An $83 billion deal that would see the world’s No. 1 and No. 4 streamers combine has been announced, with edging out rivals and in the bidding war for . Now there’s just the matter of getting the t...
Boeing falls as FTC requires it to divest Spirit AeroSystems assets to complete its $8.3 billion merger
The FTC said on Wednesday that the $8.3 billion merger between and its key supplier, , cannot proceed unless Boeing significantly divests Spirit assets. Boeing shares fell more than 2% on the FTC’s p...
European regulators will examine if Apple’s maps and ads businesses require stricter oversight
has notified European regulators that its Apple Maps and Apple Ads platforms meet the threshold to be called “gatekeepers” under the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act, the European Commission ...
Delhi High Court says Apple could face $38 billion penalty in Indian antitrust case
India’s Delhi High Court says that could face a penalty as high as $38 billion for what its investigators describe as "abusive conduct” related to the tech giant's app store, according to Reuters. Ap...
Meta wins in FTC antitrust trial
has successfully defended itself from a five-year-long Federal Trade Commission antitrust lawsuit that alleged the company’s acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp gave it a monopoly on social media. T...
Google and “Fortnite” maker Epic agree to settlement over app store reforms
and “Fortnite” maker Epic Games have proposed a settlement to end their long-running app store dispute. The deal would let Android users more easily download third-party app stores and allow developer...
OpenAI releases Chrome-competitor browser “ChatGPT Atlas,” sending Google shares down
OpenAI took aim at today with its own AI-powered web browser called “ ChatGPT Atlas .” The new browser, which is currently only available for Macs, aims to merge ChatGPT with a modern web browser. An...