FTC Opens Microsoft Antitrust Inquiry

It will fall to the incoming Trump administration to pursue or drop the investigation.

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FTC opens Microsoft antitrust investigation that Trump administration must carry on or drop

Antitrust enforcers with the Federal Trade Commission have opened a wide-ranging investigation into Microsoft’s business practices, starting off a big legal project that an incoming Trump ...
ABC News - 1d
Microsoft Faces $1.3 Billion Antitrust Lawsuit Over Cloud Services in U.K.

Microsoft faces a dispute in the U.K. over how it charges customers who buy cloud software services that rival its own Azure, the latest antitrust challenge to the U.S. tech giant’s approach to ...
The Wall Street Journal - 22h
Ex-spy Skripal was a 'sitting duck', inquiry told

The final day of evidence in public hears more about the Novichok nerve agent attack.
BBC News - 1d
Letby was face of hospital campaign, inquiry told

Lucy Letby featured on promotional material and appeared in a newspaper profile, an inquiry hears.
BBC News - 18h
Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds

Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.
The New York Times - 9h
FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel

The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient.
Wired - 13h
Consumer watchdog wants FTC to investigate Oz for influencer marketing violations

A consumer advocacy group wants the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to open an investigation into whether Dr. Mehmet Oz violated influencer marketing rules by promoting products from a wellness and ...
The Hill - 13h
Microsoft faces £1bn class action case in UK over software prices

It is alleged the tech giant overcharged companies for its Window Server software, used in cloud computing.
BBC News - 22h
FTC takes action against location data companies accused of unlawfully using consumer info

The Federal Trade Commission announced that it is taking action against two location data companies after it said that they unlawfully tracked and sold private consumer information.
NBC News - 14h