The U.S. attorney’s office for the Western District of Washington in Seattle has asked U.S.-based hedge funds for their records of communications with crypto exchange Binance, the Washington Post reported… Read More
In a letter sent to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, Sen. Elizabeth Warren asserted that Amazon’s billion-dollar bid for MGM might harm consumers and extend Amazon’s market dominance beyond… Read More
A 34-year-old citizen of Pakistan is charged with paying more than $1 million in bribes to employees at AT&T’s Seattle-area offices and call centers to install malware on the company’s… Read More
Federal regulators approved T-Mobile’s blockbuster merger with Sprint on Friday after 15 months of negotiations, paving the way for the third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers to form another titan in… Read More
The Department of Justice announced a review of the technology industry to find out whether there are violations of antitrust laws that hurt competition. The agency announced the review Tuesday… Read More
Microsoft will pay more than $25 million to settle a bribery probe by the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission into foreign corruption allegations. DOJ and SEC… Read More
T-Mobile’s proposed $26 billion merger with Sprint is facing a roadblock from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Justice Department officials… Read More
Immediately after California passed a law reinstating open internet regulations in the state, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit. Although the suit only targets California, it could provide… Read More
Microsoft is set for a Supreme Court face-off with the U.S. Department of Justice next month over the privacy of emails stored abroad, and some of the world’s biggest tech… Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a long-running case between Microsoft and the Department of Justice that could have far-reaching implications in the tech industry. The case centers… Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice approved Alaska Air’s proposed merger of Virgin America, marking the final regulatory step for a deal that will see the combined airline become the nation’s… Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by Microsoft earlier this year over a provision of U.S. law that lets government agencies prevent tech… Read More
A year ago, Amazon was looking pretty good after Apple was found guilty of overcharging consumers by millions of dollars for e-books. But a handful of organizations are now pushing regulators to investigate… Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice is accusing three men of being responsible for, or profiting from, what it calls “the largest data breach of names and email addresses in the history of… Read More
Sprint executives are reconsidering their bid for T-Mobile following regulatory pressure, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. While Sprint always knew getting a merger approved would be an… Read More
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son and Sprint CEO Dan Hesse met with the U.S. Justice Department earlier this month to discuss a possible merger between Softbank-owned Sprint and T-Mobile, according to… Read More
Nokia is one step closer to becoming a part of Microsoft, following a decision by the Justice Department approving the merger without conditions. Microsoft announced in early September that it… Read More
Apple’s going to have a new babysitter for the next two years as a part of the remedies in its antitrust case. Judge Denise Cote, who ruled this summer that… Read More
This morning, the Justice Department proposed a remedy in the Apple e-book pricing case that requested a smorgasbord of sanctions against the Cupertino-based company. Unsurprisingly, Apple was not particularly happy… Read More
While US District Court Judge Denise Cote may have thought that Apple’s case in its antitrust trial was less simple than she initially expected, the outcome was the same. In… Read More
Commentary: I spent much of Saturday trying to reconcile two very different approaches to justice meted out by the Obama Administration. The first is old (mid-December) news: British bank HSBC… Read More
Perhaps this is a sign of just how badly Apple wants to compete with Amazon.com in the electronic book business. Or, maybe it shows just how fearful the big book… Read More
A number of big technology companies, including Microsoft, Facebook and Oracle, have come out in support of AT&T’s $39 billion bid for T-Mobile. But here’s one that might surprise you:… Read More