antitrust law

The Obama-appointed federal judge overseeing the landmark antitrust case against Google is facing criticism for allowing the search giant to seal much of the testimony — a stark change from his open-courtroom…

Conservative groups are clapping back against Google’s efforts to keep its secretive relationship with Apple under lock and key.  US District Judge Amit Mehta, who is presiding over the Department of Justice…

Microsoft once considered eating a significant loss on a deal just so it could unseat Google as the default option on Apple’s web browser, a Microsoft executive said in the latest bombshell testimony to emerge…

Apple was never serious about replacing Google with Microsoft’s Bing as the default search engine in Macs and iPhones, but kept the possibility open as a “bargaining chip’’ to extract bigger payments from Google,…

Longtime Apple executive Eddy Cue defended the company’s deal to keep Google as the default search engine on its smartphones and browsers during his closely watched testimony at the Big Tech firm’s antitrust…

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorney generals filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon on Tuesday — the latest government attempt at breaking Big Tech’s dominance of the internet. The lawsuit,…

The Federal Trade Commission is expected to file an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon over its alleged anti-competitive business practices as early as Tuesday, according to a report. The long-awaited legal…

British competition regulators gave preliminary approval Friday to Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard, easing a final global hurdle that paves the way for one of…

The founder of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grumbled about how difficult it is for users to switch their default service from Google while testifying at the Big Tech firm’s landmark antitrust trial on…

The Justice Department has pulled a trove of documents related to Google’s landmark antitrust trial offline as of Wednesday after the Big Tech firm logged a complaint to the court. Throughout the opening week…