FTC Drops Case Over Microsoft’s $69 Billion Activision Blizzard Deal May 28, 2025 By Jody Godoy The U.S. Federal Trade Commission dropped a case that sought to block Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of “Call of Duty”...
AI Regulation Ban Meets Opposition From State Attorneys General May 22, 2025 By Jody Godoy A Republican proposal to block states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years drew opposition on from a bipartisan group...
FTC Concerned About Privacy Protections in 23andMe Bankruptcy March 31, 2025 By Jody Godoy The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is concerned about the potential sale or transfer of Americans’ personal information by 23andMe ancestry...
Google’s AI Previews Erode the Internet, Educational Tech Company Says in Lawsuit February 25, 2025 By Jody Godoy Alphabet’s Google internet search engine is eroding demand for original content and undermining publishers’ ability to compete with its artificial...
Trump Taps Andrew Ferguson to Replace Lina Khan as FTC Chair December 11, 2024 By Jody Godoy U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tapped Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to lead the consumer protection and antitrust agency, Trump said...
Microsoft Faces Wide-Ranging Antitrust Probe December 2, 2024 By Jody Godoy The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, including of its software licensing and cloud...
FTC’s Holyoak Concerned AI Collecting Children’s Data November 15, 2024 By Jody Godoy U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said on Thursday the agency should look into how artificial-intelligence products use the data...
FTC Finalizes New Merger-Filing Requirements October 17, 2024 By Jody Godoy The U.S Federal Trade Commission on Oct. 10 finalized changes to a rule that determines what information companies must hand...
13 States and DC Sue TikTok, Accusing Platform of Harming Younger Users October 8, 2024 By Jody Godoy and David Shepardson TikTok faces new lawsuits filed by 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, accusing the popular social...
Live Nation Seeks to End States’ Claim of Damages for Concertgoers September 20, 2024 By Jody Godoy Live Nation Entertainment has asked a federal judge in New York to dismiss several states’ claims that the live event...