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FTC looking at ‘hundreds’ of acquisitions by big tech for anticompetitive behavior

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it’s taking a closer look at hundreds of acquisitions made by Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft over the past decade. It wants to see if any of those, some of them very small, were “potentially anticompetitive acquisitions of nascent or potential competitors.” Were such a review […]

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Ninth Circuit Reverses Course While Quoting Its Own Precedent Saying Otherwise; Says Section 230 Doesn’t Cover Anti-Competitive Moderation

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from the our-earlier-finding,-while-good,-is-now-not-good,-so… dept The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has resuscitated a lawsuit against Malwarebytes filed by litigious software company Enigma. Enigma Software tends to sue people who say bad things about its antivirus offerings and since there’s a lot of people doing that, the company seems to spend a fair amount of time in

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Video: Rand Fishkin on Google’s anti-competitive practices and more

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You saw part one where I interview Rand Fishkin on the early days of SEO and his journey starting Moz and then leaving that company to start SparkToro. Now, in part two, we talk about his thoughts on Google’s anti-competitive practices — a topic he may do a deeper dive in his keynote address at

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Google’s German jobs product anti-competitive, says Springer unit

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By Klaus Lauer and Douglas Busvine BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A leading German jobs portal hit out on Thursday at Google’s launch of its own job-search product in Europe’s largest economy, saying the U.S. company had abused its dominant position to grab an overnight market lead. Stepstone, owned by publisher Axel Springer, said the number of

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Google’s German jobs product anti-competitive, says Springer unit By Reuters

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: CEO of German publisher Axel Springer SE Doepfner holds a speech during the annual news conference in Berlin By Klaus Lauer and Douglas Busvine BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A leading German jobs portal hit out on Thursday at Google’s launch of its own job-search product in Europe’s largest economy, saying the U.S.

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