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Why is the DOJ investigating Andreessen Horowitz’s board seats?

Admin5 days ago02 mins

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs. Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested…

Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial

Admin12 months ago09 mins

Google will not be forced to break up its search business, but a federal judge has tentatively ordered other changes to the tech giant’s business practices to keep it from further anticompetitive behavior. U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined remedies on Tuesday that would bar Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that…

New court filing shows that Meta execs agreed that the company was losing to TikTok

Admin1 year ago08 mins

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri, and other Meta execs thought that TikTok was beating Meta at its own game. That’s according to a new filing in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant, published on Monday. The document, dated February 2022, includes conversations among a number of Meta…

#ChatGPT’s head of product will testify in the US government’s case against Google

Admin2 years ago06 mins

The U.S. government wants to prove that Google’s competitors face overwhelming barriers to entry as part of its antitrust case against the tech giant. So it’s turning to ChaptGPT’s head of product, Nick Turley, to testify as a witness in hopes he will help fortify its case. In a landmark ruling last August, a court…

#UK’s CMA slaps Google Search and its 90%+ market share with an antitrust investigation

Admin2 years ago08 mins

The Competition and Markets Authority — the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog — is wasting no time in lodging its first official investigation of 2025 under its new rules that came into effect this month. It’s looking into the market dominance of Google in Search, including the new work it’s doing in AI search as well as…

#Google pushes back against DOJ’s ‘interventionist’ remedies in antitrust case

Admin2 years ago04 mins

Google has offered up its own proposal in a recent antitrust case that saw the US Department of Justice argue that Google must sell its Chrome browser. US District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled in August that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, with the DOJ then proposing a number…

#Lina Khan’s FTC era ends; Andrew Ferguson named chair

Admin2 years ago02 mins

Andrew Ferguson, one of two Republican FTC commissioners appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden, will be the country’s next FTC chair, incoming president Donald Trump Tuesday on social media. The news is being met with relief in some circles. Current FTC Chair Lina Khan was blamed by many in Silicon Valley for a dearth of…

#Apple’s mobile browser policies and Google pact are ‘holding back innovation,’ UK regulator says

Admin2 years ago07 mins

An inquiry group setup by the U.K.’s antitrust authority has provisionally found that Apple’s policies are “holding back innovation in the browsers we use to access the web on mobile phones.” While the report focuses substantively on Apple, it also highlighted a revenue-sharing agreement with Google, noting that the duo “earn significant revenue” when Google…

#Why some lawmakers are livid over the ‘shameless’ PGA-LIV merger

Admin3 years ago014 mins

A stunning merger between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf is making waves across Washington, D.C., drawing the ire of lawmakers and generating discussions of probes. The deal follows more than a year of antitrust litigation between the two leagues after LIV Golf hooked some of golf’s top talent with mega contracts. The PGA responded…