Texas AG Paxton sues General Motors for secretly collecting and selling driver data
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit accusing of illegally selling the private driving data of 1.5 million Texans. The lawsuit follows an investigation the AG's office announced in J...
Non-profit to shutter on the heels of lawsuit from Elon Musk
The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) is shutting down after the X owner brought a lawsuit alleging the group violated antitrust laws for boycotting the site. While a representative for the...
iLobby: Apple, like the rest of big tech, wants to change the rules
iLobby After butting heads with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) on everything from iPhones to smart watches in recent years, Apple is increasing its lobbying efforts in Washington to get ...
Spirited away: JetBlue and Spirit have called off their merger
Emergency landing JetBlue and Spirit have officially grounded their $3.8 billion merger agreement, just weeks after a federal court judge blocked the deal due to antitrust concerns originally raised...
Microsoft search: Bing hasn't unseated Google, but it's still a huge business
Microsoft has been on a winning streak: having recently dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company, hitting a $3 trillion market cap, the tech behemoth has also just posted revenue of ~$62 b...
Big Vs. Small: US consumers are in a business bind
Antitrust-worthy Google can’t stop catching antitrust cases: the search giant is now battling Fortnite maker Epic Games over its Play Store in court, while simultaneously defending ongoing monopoly ...
Game on: The largest acquisition in video game history just got a big green light
Game on Yesterday, a US federal judge gave Microsoft the green light to proceed with its planned $69bn acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard , effectively thwarting the FTC's attempt to...
Playing both sides: Regulators aren't happy with Google's ad practices
The view from Brussels The European Commission has charged Google with abusing its dominant position in the advertising tech industry, mirroring a similar lawsuit filed by the US DoJ back in January ...
Looking for Slack: Salesforce is the latest target of a famed activist investor
Looking for slack Salesforce is the latest target of Elliott Management , with the infamous activist investor taking a major stake in the company — adding to the list of woes for the software giant. ...
Activision: Why Microsoft wants to splurge ~$70bn on the gaming company
**Competition crush?** Microsoft’s chances of completing its ~$69bn deal to acquire Activision Blizzard look increasingly like a coin flip, as US regulators seek to block the deal due to concerns ov...
Elon vs. Apple: App Store fees are back in the spotlight
Elon Musk is in another fight — this time with Apple. Earlier this week, Musk tweeted that Apple had “threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store”, unleashing a tirade of tweets criticizing the ...
Big tech: Meta's not the only tech co. having a bad week
Elon news aside, it's been a massive week in the world of big tech. Metaworse Alphabet and Microsoft kicked things off with reports of slowing growth — then came Meta’s turn. The company reported a...
Lobbying: Big tech increasingly put pressure on governments — Uber is just the latest example
A recently-leaked trove of documents revealing Uber’s secretive lobbying tactics, including texts to Macron and meetings with Biden, illuminated a particularly murky area in which the worlds of big te...
Apple & Google: The tech giants have a duopoly in smartphone software
This week Apple released its latest research on the App Store, in a bid to persuade the public — and more importantly policymakers — that the app economy under its control is thriving, and that Apple'...
GIF not loading: Facebook's acquisition of Giphy just got blocked
Speaking of Facebook, this week the company was told it wasn't allowed to rule the world of GIFs. The UK's competition regulator (CMA) announced yesterday that Facebook (technically, Meta) will have t...
Second place in search: Can anyone take on Google?
No company has cornered a product or service quite like how Google has dominated internet search in the western world. With more than 87% US market share (according to StatCounter ), Google has never ...
Newspapers: They're having a hard time, and it's only going to get harder
Both Facebook and Google reported huge earnings this week, as the digital ad market continues to boom. David vs. Goliaths As the tech giants scoop up an increasingly large share of the ad market, tr...
The rise of Android: We chart the rise of Google's operating system, which had a little help from Oracle
Copy, paste, lawsuit This week the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Google in its 10-year legal battle against software giant Oracle, which had accused Google of copying around 12,000 lines of code...
Lobbying: Big tech are the biggest spenders in Washington now
Waiting in the lobby Move over big tobacco, big oil, big pharma and big defence — big tech is here, and they are outspending everyone when it comes to trying to influence politics in the United State...
Cookies: Google is letting go of third-party tracking cookies, a vital cog in their advertising machine
Third-party tracking cookies, which often "follow" internet users from website to website, are currently being phased out by Google Chrome, the world's most popular web browser, and this week Google w...