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Facebook official: Social media giant confirms antitrust investigation, beats earnings estimates with $16.9B in Q2 revenue
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 developer conference. (Facebook Photo) The Federal Trade Commission opened an antitrust investigation into…
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LIVE: FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra at the GeekWire Summit
Within the yr and alter that Rohit Chopra has served on the Federal Commerce Fee, he’s rapidly emerged as considered…
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Senators Warren and Wyden ask FTC to investigate Amazon’s culpability in Capital One data breach
AWS CEO Andy Jassy delivers the keynote at the 2018 reInvent conference. (Amazon Web Services Photo) Two Democrats in the…
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FTC chair aims to resolve Big Tech antitrust probes this year, ending investigations or taking action
FTC Chair Joseph Simons speaks at CES 2020. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The last major antitrust case that the…
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Amazon’s antitrust adversary: What Lina Khan’s Senate hearing reveals about Big Tech’s future
Lina Khan. (Columbia Law School Photo) A decades-long policy of lax regulation of the technology industry could be coming to…
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FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra on Big Tech’s antitrust reckoning, and implications for investors
FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra speaking at the 2019 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) The Federal Trade Commission is…
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Heads up, Big Tech: Lina Khan, Amazon’s antitrust adversary, will chair FTC
Lina Khan. (Columbia Law School Photo) Watch out, Amazon and other tech giants. The White House has picked Lina Khan…
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Review of Amazon-MGM deal will be led by FTC, now chaired by Big Tech critic Lina Khan
(MGM.com Image; GeekWire Illustration) The U.S. Federal Trade Commission — not the Department of Justice — is expected to lead…
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Elizabeth Warren says Amazon-MGM deal requires ‘meticulous antitrust scrutiny’ in letter to FTC
Elizabeth Warren tries to guess which billionaire’s face she is holding up during a game last year on “The Late…
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Zillow Group faces antitrust scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers over $500M ShowingTime acquisition
(ShowingTime Photo) Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) sent a letter on Thursday to the FTC that…
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