Antitrust expert: here’s what’s going to happen to Google next
It’s official: is a monopoly. You can read the full ruling here , but the main finding from US District Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling Monday was, “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maint...
“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly”
Federal judge Amit Mehta just ruled that Google broke antitrust laws by maintaining its search monopoly. “After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court re...
Carmakers are selling out their customers for as low as 26 cents
Following reports revealing car manufacturers’ sales of driver data to insurance companies and data brokers, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey sent a letter today (the third s...
Adobe’s addiction to cancellation fees
In June, the FTC sued Adobe for hindering its users from canceling their subscriptions and hiding the details about hefty cancellation fees for its Creative Cloud software subscription service. The Ve...
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Alphabet makes more in interest income than most S&P 500 companies earn in total
It’s hard to overstate the earnings power of Big Tech. After all, that’s how you get to be Big Tech (outside of Tesla , I suppose). These companies’ immense profitability is directly linked to the dom...
Reddit is negotiating moats for access in search results
To get through Google’s Search morass — filled as it is with bad AI Overviews and sponsored content — it often helps to append “site:reddit.com” to your query. Right now, Google, which already has way...
Ad companies rejoice after Google's cookie plan crumbles
After tormenting the ad industry for four years with its plan to get rid of third-party cookies, Google did an about-face and finally relented earlier this week . Instead of “deprecating third-party c...
The EU has absurd guidelines for fining American tech giants
Last week, Elon Musk’s X came under fire from the European Commission for violating its Digital Services Act, and the commission has threatened to fine the platform up to 6% of its global revenue. Fro...
Microsoft’s Inflection “acquihire” faces probes on both sides of the Atlantic
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is launching a probe into whether Microsoft’s Inflection “ acquihire ,” in which the tech giant licensed the AI company’s tech and hired most of its employee...
EU says it will drop probe on Apple Pay case due to Apple allowing competitors to compete
It turns out that following the European Unions’s wishes that Apple allow third-party mobile wallets was enough to assuage the bloc’s anti-competition concerns – at least on this particular file. The ...
Epic Games' war with Apple opens up new front in Europe
Last month the European Union charged Apple with obstructing purchases outside its App Store, something the iPhone maker is supposed to support as part of the sweeping Digital Markets Act (DMA) regula...
Amazon acquires AI startup one employee at a time to avoid regulatory scrutiny
Normally, the process for a large tech company acquiring a smaller, venture-backed startup looks something like this: Big company and startup agree to an acquisition price The startups’ investors rece...
What Amazon’s Temu clone means for American and Chinese sellers
might not explicitly talk about competitors Temu and Shein , but it’s certainly thinking about them. To combat these low-cost Chinese competitors, Amazon is launching a discount section in which unbra...
European Commission charges Apple for potential App Store violations
Biting back Apple and the EU continue to go head-to-head. Last week, the tech giant announced that it would withhold a number of features from European users — including Apple Intelligence and iPhone ...
EU could fine Apple nearly $40B for obstructing purchases outside the App Store
The EU has charged Apple with violating the Digital Markets Act, regulations which require the iPhone maker to allow app creators the option to direct users outside the company’s App Store to make pur...
Elon Musk says he may “ban” Apple devices at his companies after OpenAI announcement
Elon Musk criticized Apple, saying the iPhone maker’s newly announced deal with OpenAI could represent a privacy and security threat to his six companies. “If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, ...
Microsoft’s “acquihire” of Inflection AI probed by FTC
The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Microsoft hiring basically all of Inflection AI’s employees and licensing its tech was the same thing as an acquisition, which would have required...
Ticketing is Live Nation’s profit center
Musical chairs Yesterday, the Justice Department and 30 states filed a lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment, the owner of Ticketmaster, accusing the company of using “unlawful, anticompetitive c...
The US government is putting private equity’s M&A model under the microscope
The US government continues to scrutinize a favorite tactic of the private equity industry — so-called roll-ups, or serial acquisitions — to determine if such M&A binges harmfully eliminate competitio...
Companies aren’t talking about Amazon as much as they used to
Amazon has long been the bogeyman in the boardroom. For years it seemed all companies could talk about in their annual 10-K filings, which includes a section called Risk Factors where companies lists ...