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Microsoft’s Lessons for Google
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F.T.C. Decision on Pursuing Facebook Antitrust Case Is Said to Be Near
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission is moving closer to a decision about filing an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook for its market power in social…
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U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department accused Google on Tuesday of illegally protecting its monopoly over search and search advertising, the government’s most significant challenge to…
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U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department accused Google on Tuesday of illegally protecting its monopoly over search and search advertising, the government’s most significant challenge to…
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Google Antitrust Fight Thrusts Low-Key C.E.O. Into the Line of Fire
OAKLAND, Calif. — When Sundar Pichai succeeded Larry Page as the head of Google’s parent company in December, he was handed a bag of problems:…
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U.S. to Accuse Google of Protecting Illegal Monopoly
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department plans to accuse Google of maintaining an illegal monopoly over search and search advertising in a lawsuit to be filed…
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Google Employees Are Free to Speak Up. Except on Antitrust.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google employees are not shy about speaking up. In the last few years, they have openly confronted the company about building a…
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Big Tech Was Their Enemy, Until Partisanship Fractured the Battle Plans
WASHINGTON — For all the divisions in Washington, one issue that had united Republicans and Democrats in recent years was their animus toward the power…
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America’s Top Foundations Bankroll Attack on Big Tech
WASHINGTON — Critics of big tech companies are eager to keep up their momentum — and some of the country’s wealthiest foundations are providing the…
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New Google and Facebook Inquiries Show Big Tech Scrutiny Is Rare Bipartisan Act
There is a force uniting the nation’s fiercely partisan politicians: big technology companies. Democrats and Republicans at the federal and state levels are uniting to…
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Facebook Faces Antitrust Investigation by State Attorneys General
Regulators in eight states and the District of Columbia are moving forward with an antitrust investigation into Facebook, New York’s attorney general said on Friday,…
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Justice Department Opens Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies
The federal government has turned its full investigative powers on examining the world’s biggest technology companies, building on a backlash against the industry that has…
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‘I Don’t Trust You Guys’: Lawmakers Unite to Take Aim at Big Tech
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers leveled stinging criticism and sharp questions at Big Tech executives on Tuesday, attacking Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google for their market power,…
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Fighting Big Tech Makes for Some Uncomfortable Bedfellows
It was not a given that Steve Hilton, the conservative Fox News host, and Tim Wu, a Columbia University law professor who worked in the…
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5 Lessons From Microsoft’s Antitrust Woes, by People Who Lived It
The nation’s antitrust enforcers and Congress are stepping up their scrutiny of the tech giants. Disruptive investigations, federal lawsuits and new rules could loom for…
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To Take Down Big Tech, They First Need to Reinvent the Law
SAN FRANCISCO — When Americans fear the future, they turn to antitrust. It happened in the 1890s, when the United States was rapidly moving from…
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