After five years, Meta has emerged victorious from a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit over its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. In an opinion released Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg wrote that the FTC did not prove that ...

Meta scored a major victory last month when a federal judge ruled that its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp do not violate U.S. antitrust laws, a significant setback for the Federal Trade Commission and its former chairwoman, Lina Khan. By my count ...

Judge James Donato has reportedly questioned whether Alphabet’s Google and Epic Games reached too-good-to-be-true settlement for their antitrust lawsuit.

The US Federal Trade Commission is scrutinising ‍big tech firms that ​hire employees of a startup instead of ⁠buying the companies outright. The growing practice, in which big ‌tech firms ‌pay for startups' technology and talent without buying the company,

The European Commission will either approve or reject Google's acquisition of Wiz in February.

Nearly a dozen Democratic lawmakers pressed major tech companies Wednesday on their donations to President Trump’s ballroom, raising concerns about “any potential quid-pro-quo arrangement” related to antitrust cases and investigations. In letters to ...

The European Commission has launched an investigation into how Google is implementing its “site reputation abuse policy” and its impact on publishers. The Commission said on Thursday that it had found signs that Google is using the policy to push news ...

Ferguson said the FTC is looking into acqui-hiring deals to ensure they aren't being used as a way to bypass the agency's merger review process. He said, "We are beginning to examine these acqui-hires to make sure they are not an attempt to get around the merger review process.