New York attorney general launches massive antitrust suit against Facebook

The attorney general of New York has filed a massive antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, seeking to force a divestiture of acquisitions such as Instagram and WhatsApp. The suit filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James, and joined by 45 other states … Read more

Apple bans Epic Games from App store after anti-trust lawsuit

Apple retaliated against Epic Games after being served an anti-trust lawsuit for pulling the wildly popular video game Fortnite from the App Store.  The tech giant is set to remove Epic Games’s developer account from the platform on August 28 – banning the firm from designing apps for the App Store in the future. Epic is … Read more

Mark Zuckerberg will defend Facebook at anti-trust hearing on Wednesday

The chief executives of four of the world’s largest tech companies, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google, plan to argue in a congressional hearing on antitrust on Wednesday that they face intense competition from each other and from other rivals. The testimony from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple’s Tim Cook, … Read more

EU ‘overstepped the scope when quizzing employees as part of anti-trust probe’, Facebook claims

Facebook takes the EU to court – for invasion of privacy! Regulator ‘overstepped the scope when quizzing employees as part of anti-trust probe’ Facebook is suing the European Union for ‘invading the privacy of employees’  The social media giant alleges EU regulators asked broad questions, beyond the scope of two ongoing antitrust investigations   Facebook lawyer … Read more