antitrust

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson told corn farmers in Texas the agency has opened a compulsory-process antitrust investigation into surging fertilizer prices.

The European Commission's preliminary view targets Amazon's and Microsoft's cloud arms, the first DMA designation made without meeting the law's quantitative thresholds.

The FTC finalized a consent order barring Rollins from enforcing noncompetes against more than 18,000 workers, marking its post-rule enforcement pivot.

Italy's competition authority launched its first DMA-powered probe on June 16, examining whether Apple blocks rival cloud services from offering full iPhone backups.

Competition regulators in Italy and Brazil have ordered Meta to suspend its policy barring rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, widening a fight that began in the EU.

The European Commission is finalizing a high triple-digit million euro fine — the largest ever under the Digital Markets Act — against Google for promoting its own Shopping, Flights, and Hotels services in search results.

Justice Kagan rejected Apple's emergency stay request in under an hour on May 6, and Apple has now formally petitioned the Supreme Court to review the contempt finding and injunction scope.

Google's appellate brief, filed May 22, contests both the 2024 monopoly finding and a remedies order requiring data-sharing with rivals including OpenAI.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on April 30 demanding the Commission use every enforcement tool against DMA-violating gatekeepers, as US tariff threats and visa sanctions aimed at EU officials escalate the transatlantic tech regulation conflict.

Brussels' first review of the Digital Markets Act concludes the law needs no overhaul, declines to designate generative AI as a new core platform service, and shifts focus toward cloud gatekeeper probes and a Google Android AI specification.

The Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of eight states secured a proposed consent order banning the three holding companies from coordinating brand safety standards or maintaining shared exclusion lists.

The European Commission must deliver its first mandatory review of the Digital Markets Act by May 3, weighing calls to expand the law into AI and cloud services while fending off Trump administration tariff threats over $7 billion in cumulative tech fines.