The Kamala Harris campaign’s cozy ties with Big Tech have sparked worries that Google will be allowed to wiggle out of a proposed breakup of its search empire if she is elected president, The Post has learned. Harris is close to Paul Weiss – the white-shoe law firm leading Google’s defense in another major antitrust case targeting … Read more
The Justice Department is reportedly considering a push for a historic breakup of Google’s business empire after a federal judge ruled the Big Tech giant has an illegal monopoly over online search. DOJ attorneys could ask Judge Amit Mehta to order Google to sell portions of its business – with potential candidates for divestment including … Read more
Alphabet’s Google broke the law with monopolistic behaviour over online search and related advertising, a federal judge ruled on Monday, the first victory for U.S. antitrust authorities who have filed numerous lawsuits challenging Big Tech’s market dominance. The decision is a significant win for the U.S. Justice Department, which had sued the search engine giant … Read more
Alphabet’s Google broke the law with its monopoly over online searches and related ads, a federal judge ruled on Monday, in the US Justice Department’s first victory against a monopoly in more than 20 years. The decision is a significant win for the Justice Department, which had sued the search engine giant over its control … Read more
The Justice Department said Boeing had agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge and pay a fine of $243.6 million after the planemaker breached a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement, according to a court filing on Wednesday. Boeing on July 7 agreed in principle to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration after … Read more
General Motors is forgoing plans to produce its autonomous cab Cruise Origin indefinitely as it refocuses efforts on the troubled unit. GM CEO Mary Barra told shareholders on Tuesday that the automaker will “simplify their path to scale by focusing their next autonomous vehicle on the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt, instead of the Origin,” which had been … Read more
Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two crashes of 737 Max jetliners that killed 346 people, including several Canadians, after the U.S. government determined the company violated an agreement that had protected it from prosecution. The plea deal, which was revealed by the U.S. Justice Department on Sunday night and … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids but also would have provided billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic. After deliberating more than six months, … Read more
TikTok and parent firm ByteDance depicted the security concerns raised by American lawmakers and government officials about the short video platform as purely “speculative” and without evidence to validate accusations against the popular app. That description was made in a legal brief filed on Thursday by TikTok and ByteDance, which asserted that the basis of … Read more
The US Justice Department won’t pursue allegations that ByteDance’s TikTok misled US consumers about their data security in a forthcoming suit accusing the company of children’s privacy violations, according to people familiar with the decision. The department is preparing to file a consumer protection lawsuit against TikTok later this year on behalf of the US … Read more
