Chris May

1 week ago | mlex.com | Clayton Vickers |Chris May

By Clayton Vickers and Chris May ( May 8, 2025, 22:00 GMT | Insight) -- A federal judge today pushed parties involved in US price-fixing claims over broiler chickens to maintain a tight schedule toward an April 2027 trial date, resisting requests to delay deadlines or complicate discovery.A federal judge today pushed parties involved in US price-fixing claims over broiler chickens to maintain a tight schedule toward an April 2027 trial date, resisting requests to delay deadlines or complicate...

2 weeks ago | mlex.com | Khushita Vasant |Chris May

May 3, 2025, 02:17 GMT | Insight Google's economic expert decried in court today the US Department of Justice's remedy proposals over data sharing and ad auctions in a monopoly trial as "regulation," stating the government was forcing the company to reveal the "guts of its system." Dr Mark Israel, who testified for Google during the liability phase of an Internet search monopolization lawsuit, returned to the witness stand in an evidentiary trial in which the DOJ and several states are...

4 weeks ago | mlex.com | Chris May |Mike Swift

By Chris May and Mike Swift ( April 18, 2025, 18:21 GMT | Comment) -- Mark Zuckerberg, the highest-profile witness in a US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking to break up Meta Platforms, offered testimony this week that will help the agency’s attempt to push forward a privacy-focused antitrust angle of attack that the US Department of Justice unsuccessfully deployed in an ongoing monopolization trial against Google that will soon be playing out in the same courthouse.Mark Zuckerberg, the...

1 month ago | mlex.com | Khushita Vasant |Chris May

By Khushita Vasant and Chris May ( April 16, 2025, 00:34 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he saw the writing on the wall when he suggested to a trusted circle of colleagues in 2018 that the company take the "extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company" rather than have a hostile US government do it for them.Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he saw the writing on the wall when he suggested to a trusted circle of colleagues...

1 month ago | mlex.com | Khushita Vasant |Chris May

By Khushita Vasant and Chris May ( April 15, 2025, 01:01 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so "worried" and even thought it was "scary" to see Facebook being "so far behind" Instagram over its camera features and wide network in 2012 that he solicited advice on paying a lot of money to buy the small, yet established competitor, according to internal documents shown today during the US Federal Trade Commission's monopoly trial against Meta.Meta Platforms CEO Mark...