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August 8, 2019 at 2:24 pm

Report: Facebook offering ‘millions’ to publishers for news

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is reportedly in talks with news publishers to offer "millions of dollars" for the rights to publish their material on...

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July 24, 2019 at 1:20 pm

Privacy case settled, Facebook discloses FTC antitrust probe

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook says it is under antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. The company made the announcement just hours after the...

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July 24, 2019 at 5:32 am

Record Facebook fine won’t end scrutiny of the company VIEW

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook survived its latest brush with U.S. privacy regulators, at the cost of a record $5 billion fine and other restrictions...

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July 24, 2019 at 12:00 am

Is ‘Big Tech’ too big? A look at growing antitrust scrutiny VIEW

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Is Big Tech headed for a big breakup? The U.S. Justice Department has announced a major antitrust investigation into unnamed tech...

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July 23, 2019 at 9:00 pm

Justice Dept. puts Big Tech under the antitrust microscope

WASHINGTON (AP) — Like Europe before it, the U.S. government looks ready to try reining in its technology giants. But doing so may be more...

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From left: Adam Cohen, the director of economic policy at Google; Matt Perault, the head of Global Policy Development at Facebook; Nate Sutton, the associate general counsel of competition at Amazon; and Kyle Andeer, the vice president of corporate law at Apple, are sworn in to testify before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, July 16, 2019. The Justice Department said on July 23 that it would start an antitrust review into how powerful internet companies had accumulated market power and whether they had acted to reduce competition. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times) XNYT198 XNYT198

July 23, 2019 at 1:55 pm

Justice Dept. ratchets up antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice opened a sweeping antitrust investigation of major technology companies and whether their online platforms have hurt competition,...

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July 19, 2019 at 10:42 am

Instagram expands hiding ‘likes’ to make you happier

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Instagram is expanding a test to hide how many "likes" people's posts receive as it tries to combat criticism that such...

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July 17, 2019 at 1:34 am

Congress grills Big Tech over competition, money and power VIEW

Big Tech faced tough questions this week as federal lawmakers focused on issues of potentially anticompetitive behavior by technology giants and expressed bipartisan skepticism over...

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July 12, 2019 at 10:43 pm

Reports: Facebook faces $5B FTC fine, largest ever in tech

At $5 billion, the fine the FTC is about to levy on Facebook is by far the largest it's given to a technology company, easily...

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July 12, 2019 at 1:06 pm

FTC approves record $5B fine for Facebook

At $5 billion, the fine the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is about to levy on Facebook is by far the largest it's given to a...

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