U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle reportedly part of ongoing investigation into Binance The U.S. attorney’s office for the Western District of Washington in Seattle has asked U.S.-based hedge funds for their records… Read More
Elizabeth Warren says Amazon-MGM deal requires ‘meticulous antitrust scrutiny’ in letter to FTC In a letter sent to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, Sen. Elizabeth Warren asserted that Amazon’s billion-dollar bid for… Read More
Seattle-area AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network, authorities say A 34-year-old citizen of Pakistan is charged with paying more than $1 million in bribes to employees at AT&T’s Seattle-area… Read More
Justice Department approves T-Mobile’s $26B merger with Sprint Federal regulators approved T-Mobile’s blockbuster merger with Sprint on Friday after 15 months of negotiations, paving the way for the… Read More
U.S. Justice Department launches sweeping antitrust probe into top U.S. tech companies The Department of Justice announced a review of the technology industry to find out whether there are violations of antitrust… Read More
Microsoft agrees to $25M settlement following foreign bribery investigation in Hungary Microsoft will pay more than $25 million to settle a bribery probe by the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities… Read More
T-Mobile-Sprint merger faces uncertain future amid reported resistance from DOJ T-Mobile’s proposed $26 billion merger with Sprint is facing a roadblock from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to a… Read More
What California’s net neutrality battle with DOJ means for Washington and other states with open internet laws Immediately after California passed a law reinstating open internet regulations in the state, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a… Read More
Tech giants and elected officials back Microsoft in Supreme Court case on international data privacy Microsoft is set for a Supreme Court face-off with the U.S. Department of Justice next month over the privacy of… Read More
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Microsoft-DOJ dispute over emails stored at Ireland data center The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a long-running case between Microsoft and the Department of Justice that could… Read More
U.S. Justice Department OKs $2.6 billion Alaska Air-Virgin America merger The U.S. Department of Justice approved Alaska Air’s proposed merger of Virgin America, marking the final regulatory step for a… Read More
U.S. Dept. of Justice pushes back against Microsoft in lawsuit over secrecy orders The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by Microsoft earlier this year… Read More
Authors and booksellers ask U.S. regulators to investigate Amazon’s dominance in book sales A year ago, Amazon was looking pretty good after Apple was found guilty of overcharging consumers by millions of dollars for… Read More
US DOJ accuses three men in largest email breach ‘in the history of the Internet’ The U.S. Department of Justice is accusing three men of being responsible for, or profiting from, what it calls “the largest data… Read More
Sprint steps back from T-Mobile deal following regulators’ public opposition Sprint executives are reconsidering their bid for T-Mobile following regulatory pressure, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. While… Read More
A T-Mobile-Sprint merger? Not so fast, say U.S. regulators Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son and Sprint CEO Dan Hesse met with the U.S. Justice Department earlier this month to discuss… Read More
U.S. DOJ approves Microsoft’s $7.2 billion Nokia acquisition Nokia is one step closer to becoming a part of Microsoft, following a decision by the Justice Department approving the… Read More
Judge issues permanent injunction in Apple e-book case Apple’s going to have a new babysitter for the next two years as a part of the remedies in its… Read More
Apple blasts DOJ’s ‘absurdly broad’ remedy as a ‘draconian and punitive intrusion’ This morning, the Justice Department proposed a remedy in the Apple e-book pricing case that requested a smorgasbord of sanctions… Read More
Apple loses e-books antitrust case, but vows to appeal While US District Court Judge Denise Cote may have thought that Apple’s case in its antitrust trial was less simple… Read More
Untangling Justice: The case of Aaron Swartz Commentary: I spent much of Saturday trying to reconcile two very different approaches to justice meted out by the Obama… Read More
DOJ takes aim at Apple and publishers over e-book pricing Perhaps this is a sign of just how badly Apple wants to compete with Amazon.com in the electronic book business.… Read More
Verizon CEO: The merger of AT&T and T-Mobile ‘had to occur’ A number of big technology companies, including Microsoft, Facebook and Oracle, have come out in support of AT&T’s $39 billion… Read More
