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1 week ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Alexis Keenan |Alexis Keenan Weed

8 May 2025 at 9:42 am·3-min readPresident Trump's antitrust cops at the Federal Trade Commission just received a loud warning about attempts to block any future technology mergers. It came as the FTC on Wednesday lost a roughly three-year-long attempt to undo Microsoft's (MSFT) $69 billion acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard on the grounds that the deal violated antitrust law.

2 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Alexis Keenan |Alexis Keenan Weed

A US judge ordered Apple (AAPL) to immediately decrease its App Store fees and asked for criminal prosecutors to review the company's alleged "cover-up," jeopardizing billions in revenue for the tech giant. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, in a blistering 80-page decision, said Apple circumvented her 2021 order that was first issued in an antitrust case brought by "Fortnite" developer Epic Games.

2 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Alexis Keenan |Alexis Keenan Weed

Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai took the witness stand Wednesday at his company's breakup trial in an attempt to preserve the competitive advantages of a crown jewel: Google Search. Pichai said government proposals to break up the company, end its exclusive distribution agreements, and force it to share decades of search engine data would provide an inapt way to spur competition. "It will have many unintended consequences," Pichai said, according to Bloomberg.

2 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Alexis Keenan |Alexis Keenan Weed

Competition for any advantage in the booming artificial intelligence industry is so fierce that the fighting is spilling over into US courtrooms. It happened this past week in the start of a trial that will determine whether Google's (GOOG, GOOGL) search empire will be broken up by federal Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled last year that Google operated an illegal online search monopoly.

2 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Alexis Keenan |Alexis Keenan Weed

25 April 2025 at 11:49 am·2-min readChatGPT creator OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) and Yahoo would like to buy Google's Chrome web browser if a federal judge orders a sale of the internet’s most popular gateway. The interest of these companies emerged this week during a trial that will determine whether Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google search empire will be broken up by federal judge Amit Mehta, who ruled last year that Google operated an illegal online search monopoly.