Major tech companies have spent over $30 billion acquiring artificial intelligence startups while facing mounting antitrust concerns, as states rush to fill the federal regulatory void with nearly 700 AI-related bills introduced in 2024 — an almost 400% increase from 2023. The flurry of activity...
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is in charge of antitrust regulation, is investigating a partnership between tech giant Alphabet and artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. It will launch a probe Friday (Oct. 25) that aims to determine whether the deal could undermine competition...
PYMNTS Intelligence published its annual report on the usage and adoption of Apple Pay yesterday (October 21). That report marked the ten-year milestone of Apple Pay’s launch, which was the mobile wallet shot heard round the world. Apple Pay wasn’t the world’s first digital wallet...
Google wants to pause a ruling requiring it to open its Play Store to rivals. The tech giant argues that U.S. District Judge James Donato’s injunction order from earlier this month would hurt its business and bring “serious safety, security and privacy risks into the...
August 05, 2024
By now, you know that Google lost its landmark antitrust case, pending what is sure to be a dogfight of an appeal. In the balance, there are more antitrust cases in the tech sector involving Meta and Amazon, among others. With that in mind it’s important to focus on the details in the judge’s decision, […]
April 22, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are working on new horizontal merger guidelines, which may be ready by the end of the year, that could...
April 19, 2022
Antitrust laws in the U.S. were enacted more than 100 years ago, but for Jon Roellke, partner at Morgan Lewis, this is the most significant antitrust moment in the last...
April 18, 2022
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced changes to its leniency program on April 4 that may translate into a tougher stance on enforcement. However, Heather Nyong’o, partner at Cleary Gottlieb...
November 05, 2024
Apple is set to receive a fine from the European Union’s antitrust regulators, the first company to be sanctioned under the bloc’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA). The EU charged Apple in June for violating its tech rules, Reuters reported Tuesday (Nov. 5), citing sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The fine is likely […]
October 24, 2024
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is in charge of antitrust regulation, is investigating a partnership between tech giant Alphabet and artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. It will launch...
October 13, 2024
Google wants to pause a ruling requiring it to open its Play Store to rivals. The tech giant argues that U.S. District Judge James Donato’s injunction order from earlier this...
October 07, 2024
A judge unsealed a Sept. 30 ruling that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust lawsuit against Amazon can proceed, while the claims of some states were dismissed. Amazon asked U.S....
