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Google said in a press release that it would cut the service fee for subscriptions on its Google Play store from 30% to 15% from day one.

Blumenthal said it is “urgent and necessary” for Zuckerberg or Instagram chief Adam Mosseri to testify in order “to set the record straight.”

Americans are increasingly using plastic to spend their money, enabling Visa to grow its dominance in the credit and debit card space.

Facebook will pay a $4.75 million civil penalty under the terms of the DOJ settlement and make available up to $9.5 million to pay eligible victims.

The American Innovation and Choice Online Act would prohibit dominant online platforms from engaging in discriminatory behavior.

Executives from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz plan to meet with leaders on the Hill and in the White House in Washington this week.

This latest evidence of Facebook’s moral failures is credible and damning, but concerns are not new, argue Reps. David Cicilline, D-R.I., and Ken Buck, R.Colo.

Apple’s appeal would protect its lucrative App Store model, which has come under fire from international regulators and members of the U.S. Congress.

Leaked documents from a Facebook whistleblower could help some tech legislation get over the finish line, lawmakers said.

The FTC dismissed an earlier petition for Khan’s recusal, filed by Facebook.

JetBlue is revamping its website to highlight services like free Wi-Fi and extra legroom to reduce confusion with its new partner American Airlines.

Members of the U.S. Senate used Facebook’s own internal documents leaked by a whistleblower to go after the company.

The signatories include at least one representative from every administration since President Gerald Ford.

Khan has been among the leading voices for more vigorous antitrust enforcement, sparking a movement with her 2017 article, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox.”

The airlines’ “Northeast Alliance” partnership was announced in July 2020 and approved by the U.S. Transportation Department six months later.

The agency released findings from its study of unreported mergers by five Big Tech companies: Google-owner Alphabet Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.

Department of Justice Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta called acquisitions of nascent competitors “one category of particularly concerning transactions.”

Bedoya’s academic work has scrutinized surveillance technologies including facial recognition.

A federal judge in California ruled Friday that Epic Games failed to prove that Apple is a monopolist, but she left open the possibility that it could be proven.

The draft bill builds on a recommendation last year from the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.