Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for an antitrust investigation into the web domain registration business. The Democratic lawmaker from Massachusetts — working with Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) — wrote last week to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and Department of Justice to enforce...
Apple and Google may face a formal investigation into their mobile ecosystem policies in the United Kingdom after a provisional study found that these policies are “holding back innovation.” Following an investigation launched in 2022, an independent inquiry group of the U.K.’s Competition and Markets...
The Justice Department’s proposal to resolve its antitrust case over online search against Google reportedly would force the tech giant to unwind its partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic. A recommendation in the Justice Department’s court filing Wednesday (Nov. 20) that Google be barred...
The U.S. Department of Justice reportedly plans to ask a judge to order Google to divest one or more core products as a way to reduce the company’s dominance in the search market. Google’s Chrome browser and Android mobile operating system could be among those...
The UK’s competition watchdog has cleared Google’s partnership with Anthropic. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Tuesday (Nov. 19) that it had determined that the deal between the tech giant and the artificial intelligence (AI) startup did not warrant additional investigation. “The CMA does...
Elon Musk added antitrust claims against OpenAI and Microsoft to his existing lawsuit against OpenAI. Musk claimed the companies colluded to remove competition in artificial intelligence, according to an amended lawsuit filed late Thursday (Nov. 14). In his expanded lawsuit, Musk accused OpenAI CEO Sam...
Visa says European regulators are investigating the fees it charges retailers. The company revealed the European Commission’s (EC) preliminary probe in its annual report Wednesday (Nov. 13). “On August 30, 2024, the EC informed Visa that it has opened a preliminary investigation into Visa’s fees...
So what will U.S. antitrust policies look like under the new administration? According to a Reuters report, experts predict Donald Trump will roll back some of the policies instituted under President Joe Biden. This could include abandoning the Justice Department’s (DOJ) efforts to break up...
The European Commission has reportedly launched a probe into whether Mastercard and Visa’s fees are hurting merchants. The commission sent out questionnaires to retailers and payment service providers about both Visa and Mastercard in September, giving them until October to respond, Reuters reported Wednesday (Nov. 6),...
