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Nov 27, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Diane Bartz |Angus MacSwan |David Gregorio
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Meta Platforms, which owns WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, lost the latest round of a court battle over privacy on Monday after a federal judge ruled a U.S. regulator can seek to reduce the amount of money the social media...
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Mark Porter |Diane Bartz |Chizu Nomiyama |David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Amazon.com used a series of illegal strategies to stay on top of online retailing while pushing up prices for buyers and extracting more revenue from independent sellers, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Thursday....
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Chris Sanders |Diane Bartz |Marguerita Choy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc and its subsidiary Google, will testify on Monday in the once-in-a generation antitrust fight with the U.S. government over Google's dominance of search and some parts of search advertising....
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Diane Bartz |Chris Reese
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google, will testify on Monday in the once-in-a generation antitrust fight over Google's dominance of search and some parts of search advertising.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Diane Bartz |Susan Heavey |Caitlin Webber
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat on the Senate Banking panel, said on Wednesday she was concerned that Exxon Mobil's agreement to buy U.S. rival Pioneer Natural Resources would raise costs and should be probed by...
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Diane Bartz |Douglas Gillison |Richard Chang |Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration took another shot at unpopular junk fees on Wednesday with a proposed rule that would require businesses disclose mandatory fees up front and an instruction to banks not to impose excessive charges for...
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Diane Bartz |David French
The White House may have blamed Exxon Mobil XOM-N for high energy prices taking their toll on consumers, but would struggle to thwart the top U.S. oil producer’s contemplated $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources PXD-N, five antitrust lawyers and experts said on Friday. Deal negotiations between Exxon and Pioneer are advanced but have not yet led to an agreement, Reuters reported on Thursday.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Chris Sanders |Diane Bartz |David Shepardson |Nick Zieminski
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a long awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday, and asked the court to consider forcing the online retailer to sell assets as the government pressed on with its fight to...
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Diane Bartz |David Shepardson |Timothy Gardner
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema on Friday declined to order a Justice Department official to stay out of the government's advertising antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet's Google but said the department "should...
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Diane Bartz |Anna Driver
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The California attorney general's office is probing whether Kroger's $24.6 billion plan to buy rival grocer Albertsons will make it harder for people in poorer parts of cities or rural areas to buy medicines, according to two...
