The Federal Trade Commission's recent challenge to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision has been rejected by a federal court, highlighting the agency's inconsistent and overly broad approach to ...

However, this is not always the case, and sometimes competition is stifled in favor of a singular monopoly wielding unchecked ...

Although Microsoft founder Bill Gates sat down for an interview with The Associated Press to discuss his new memoir, “Source Code: My Beginnings,” he also shared his views on a variety of other topics ...

Microsoft and Google have faced particularly ... its advertising strategies and search business. Google lost one antitrust case in 2024 when US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled it held a monopoly ...

In the last major antitrust technology case, U.S. v. Microsoft (2001), the court of appeals rejected a divestiture remedy and instead supported tailored relief, “an injunction against ...

A majority vote of the agency’s commissioners is needed for the FTC to file a lawsuit. Before Liu joined the agency, the FTC lost two major merger challenges involving Meta Platforms Inc. and ...

Lawyers argue 105-page complaint 'fails at its one job: to plead facts that state a claim Elon Musk's legal grudge against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft could soon be over – again – if a ...

Gates spent his final years as Microsoft’s CEO entangled in a high-profile antitrust case brought by the U.S. Justice Department to break up the software maker. Although Microsoft remained ...