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Barr’s Interest in Google Antitrust Case Keeps It Moving Swiftly

WASHINGTON — For months, lawyers at the Justice Department have been marshaling their forces for a possible antitrust lawsuit against Google, spurred on by the personal interest of Attorney General William P. Barr. The day-to-day digging of a federal antitrust investigation rarely rises to the level of the attorney general or the deputy attorney general. […]

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Apple’s App Store Draws Antitrust Scrutiny in European Union

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American investigations of Big Tech’s power, including those by the Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, have tended to lump Apple in with Google, Facebook and Amazon. But Apple was thought to be at the least risk of punishment there because its business practices appeared to be less problematic than its closest

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Apple faces new antitrust probes in Europe

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“We need to ensure that Apple’s rules do not distort competition in markets where Apple is competing with other app developers, for example with its music streaming service Apple Music or with Apple Books,” Margrethe Vestager, the commission’s executive vice president for competition, said in a written statement. Every time an iPhone user subscribes to

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos signals openness to testify at congressional antitrust hearing

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“Of course, we will need to resolve a number of questions regarding timing, format, and outstanding document production issues, all necessarily framed by the extraordinary demands of the global pandemic,” Amazon lawyers said in a letter sent Sunday and later obtained by The Post. “In addition, we think it bears emphasizing that other senior executives

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Amazon Set to Face Antitrust Charges in European Union

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This month, Ms. Vestager signaled more action against American tech giants, including giving her office added antitrust powers to address structural competition problems within an industry rather than just individual cases against a single company. The European Commission, the executive body for the European Union, is also debating a new digital services law that would

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DuckDuckGo Questioned By Authorities Over Google Antitrust Investigation

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DuckDuckGo has reportedly been in talks with the U.S. Justice Department regarding an investigation into Google’s alleged anti-competitive practices. In a report from Bloomberg, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg reveals U.S. authorities are looking for ways to limit Google’s dominance in the search market. Weinberg spoke with authorities just a few weeks ago, who came prepared

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Justice Department homing in on Google Ad Manager in antitrust probe

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The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is talking with multiple publishers and ad-tech companies as it scrutinizes Google’s third-party ad tools, as part of the DOJ’s antitrust investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Companies the DOJ has reached out to include the New York Times, Gannett, Condé Nast, Oracle, Yelp and DuckDuckGo among several others.

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European antitrust chief says Google’s auction-based shopping remedy not working

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European antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said yesterday at a conference that Google’s efforts to drive more traffic to European comparison shopping rivals have essentially failed. This is a reversal of her previous, qualified support for the changes Google made in response to a European Commission finding in 2017 that the company had “abused its market

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Justice Department launches antitrust probe of Big Tech

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The U.S. Department of Justice opened a sweeping antitrust investigation of big technology companies and whether their online platforms have hurt competition, suppressed innovation or otherwise harmed consumers. It comes as a growing number of lawmakers have called for stricter regulation of or even breaking up the big tech companies, which have come under intense

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Facebook antitrust probe grows to 47 attorneys general

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The Washington Post first reported on the states’ interest in joining the investigation. Will Castleberry, vice president for state and local policy at Facebook, said in a statement that the company would work “constructively with state attorneys general.” He added, “People have multiple choices for every one of the services we provide.” The update on

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