In a revised complaint filed last August, the FTC argues that the company pursued a “buy or bury” strategy against rivals to suppress competition.
This is the FTC’s second antitrust run at the company. A federal judge in June dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought against Facebook by the agency and a broad coalition of state attorneys general that were among multiplying efforts by federal and state regulators to rein in tech titans’ market power.
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BROADCAST TV'S REDUCED ROLE MADE CLEAR IN FALL PRESENTATIONS
They never even made it onto the stage.
CHINA'S BET ON HOMEGROWN MRNA VACCINES HOLDS BACK NATION
China is trying to navigate its biggest coronavirus outbreak without a tool it could have adopted many months ago, the kind of vaccines that have proven to offer the best protection against the worst outcomes from COVID-19.
CANADA BANS CHINA'S HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES FROM 5G NETWORKS
Wireless carriers in Canada won’t be allowed to install Huawei equipment in their high-speed 5G networks, the Canadian government said, joining allies in banning the giant Chinese technology company.
HYUNDAI ANNOUNCES $5.5B ELECTRIC VEHICLE PLANT IN GEORGIA
Hyundai Motor Group confirmed the company will spend $5.5 billion on a huge electric vehicle plant near Savannah that will employ thousands — a deal Georgia’s governor called the largest economic development project in the state’s history.
TWITTER TO PAY $150M PENALTY OVER PRIVACY OF USERS' DATA
Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users’ data over a six-year span.
‘Twitter Philanthropy' Reveals Chasms in Social Safety Net
Single father Billy Price was already struggling to make ends meet before someone broke into his Michigan storage unit, stole his identity and ruined his credit.
Argo Touts Driverless Operations in Miami and Austin, Texas
An autonomous vehicle technology company that partners with Ford and Volkswagen says it has started driverless operations in two of eight cities where it is developing its technology.
A Bear Market May Be on the Horizon. Here's What That Means
Investors on Wall Street need a place to hide.
PARK OUTDOORS: FORD RECALLS SUVS DUE TO ENGINE FIRE RISK
Ford is asking the owners of 350,000 vehicles in to take them to dealers for repairs in three recalls, including about 39,000 that should be parked outdoors because the engines can catch fire.
DUSTY DEMISE FOR NASA MARS LANDER IN JULY; POWER DWINDLING
A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise.
"You Know What's Cool?"
Facebook has spent a decade successfully ripping off its newer, hotter rivals. But this time, it tried to copy TikTok and blew up Instagram instead
A Perfect Match
EVERYDAY MIRACLES
The Future of ...WHAT'S COMING DOWN THE RUNWAY IN FADS, FASHION, AND FIRMWARE
I think influencer marketing should become more plugand-play, like with Facebook ads."
How to block (and unblock) someone on Facebook
Is someone bugging the heck out of you on Facebook? Here’s how to block ‘em.
Big Tech's Great Reckoning
A spate of new laws in Europe and the U.S. Foreshadow What Could Be the End of dominance for Google, Facebook and Amazon
AIRBNB Allows Employees to Live and Work From Anywhere
Airbnb will allow its employees to live and work almost anywhere around the world, fully embracing a remote work policy to attract staff and ensure flexibility.
La era de la neuroprivacidad
Puede sonar a ciencia ficción, pero ya se puede leer el pensamiento y estamos a un paso de influir en él, gracias a los avances en neurotecnología. Pronto, los datos no provendrán de las redes sociales o nuestras búsquedas en Internet: se recogerán directamente de nuestro cerebro. Y mientras las grandes empresas se frotan las manos, los científicos advierten que ya es la hora de regular. Legislemos los neuroderechos.
De-FAANGed
Investors are rethinking a strategy that's served them for the better part of a decade
EU LAW TARGETS BIG TECH OVER HATE SPEECH, DISINFORMATION
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta will have to police their platforms more strictly to better protect European users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content under landmark EU legislation approved last weekend.
IN ELECTION MISINFORMATION FIGHT, '2020 CHANGED EVERYTHING'
Beth Bowers grew up in the 1960s and 1970s with parents who marched in protests, wrote letters to members of Congress and voted in elections big and small.