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Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance

7:39pm August 05, 2024

by The Associated Press

The highly anticipated decision comes nearly a year after the start of a trial pitting the U.S. Justice Department against Google in the country's biggest antitrust showdown in a quarter century.

Taylor Swift, pictured at the 2022 MTV VMAs in August, will embark on her first tour in five years this coming March. Over two million people bought tickets to The Eras Tour on the first day of pre-sale, despite major technical issues.

The Taylor Swift ticket fiasco is refocusing a spotlight on Ticketmaster's dominance

3:57pm November 17, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Ticketmaster says unprecedented demand caused tech issues, frustrating fans. Some Democrats say the problem is actually with the company's market power.

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, seen here in 2019, announced Tuesday that Washington is suing Amazon for alleged antitrust violations.

D.C. Sues Amazon, Accusing It Of Inflating Prices And Abusing Its Monopoly

5:07pm May 25, 2021

by Laurel Wamsley

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine takes issue with Amazon's policies for third-party sellers that prevent them from selling products for lower prices elsewhere.

Lina Khan, here at her home in Larchmont, N.Y., in 2017, has been nominated to the Federal Trade Commission.

Big Tech Showdown Looms As Biden Taps Top Critics Lina Khan, Tim Wu

6:46pm March 22, 2021

Federal Trade Commission nominee Lina Khan and presidential adviser Tim Wu have advocated for new rules to curb the power of the tech giants.

A reader handles an Amazon Kindle at a book fair in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2015.

EU Drops Its Antitrust Probe Over Amazon E-Book Contracts

3:45pm May 04, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The European Union's executive arm closed the investigation after accepting Amazon's promise to strip its publisher contracts of clauses that the commission feared were "harmful to consumers."

Court Rules Against Paying College Athletes

5:11pm September 30, 2015

by Laura Wagner

A federal appeals court in California upheld a lower court's decision that profiting from athletes' likenesses violated antitrust laws, but vacated a plan that would pay them up to $5,000 per year.