The FTC files to block Meta's acquisition of VR company Within, saying Meta “chose to buy” instead of compete, the first antitrust lawsuit filed under Lina Khan
Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. Lauren Feiner / CNBC : Facebook lawsuit delivers on FTC chair Lina Khan's progressive agenda Josh Sisco / Politico : Antitrust agency ta...
South Africa's Competition Commission accuses Meta of anticompetitive practices for plans to exclude the government's communication tools from WhatsApp's API
Tim Cocks / Reuters :
The dismissal of FTC suit against Facebook shows the difficulty of making antitrust charges stick and could spur lawmakers to strengthen outdated antitrust laws
and threw cold water on the heated campaign to brand Big Tech as illegal monopolists. It shows just how tough it will be for regulators to make their charges of tech malfeasance stick. https://www.axi...
Court docs show Apple offered Hulu and some other “whitelisted developers” special access to App Store APIs, like the cancel/refund API
This Week in Apple Stephen Warwick / iMore : Internal docs reveal Apple's huge 2015 push to improve App Review Usman Hussain / iThinkDifferent : Apple's App Store VP tells judge that it features compe...
Court docs show Apple offered Hulu and some other “whitelisted developers” special access to App Store APIs, like the cancel/refund API
Today is the fourth day of the Epic Games v. Apple legal battle, and documents shared in the trial continue to give us insight into the App Store and Apple's business practices.
In a statement, Instagram says it does not provide users a copyright license to display images on other websites when using its embedding API
People may need to get permission before embedding someone else's Instagram photo. — Instagram does not provide users of its embedding API …
Ahead of this month's SCOTUS review of Oracle's 2010 Java copyright infringement case against Google, a look at how Oracle once got rich by copying IBM's SQL
Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights. — More than a decade ago … Tweets: @newsycbot , @markcallaghandb , @grimmelm , and @binarybits Tweets: @newsycbot : O...
Connected car platform Smartcar says it's taking legal action against rival Otonomo, which has raised ~$53M to date, alleging copying of its API documentation
Sahas Katta / Smartcar Blog :
Profile of Judge William H. Alsup of Oracle v. Google and Waymo v. Uber, who ruled against API copyright and taught himself to program in QuickBASIC
On May 18th, 2012, attorneys for Oracle and Google were battling over nine lines of code in a hearing before Judge William H. Alsup of the northern district of California.
Jury in Oracle suit unanimously finds Google's use of Java APIs in Android was fair use; Oracle vows to appeal
here's why that matters Rajesh Pandey / Android Beat : Jury Rules Google Makes ‘Fair Use’ of Java APIs in Android John Callaham / Android Central : Google wins legal fight with Oracle, jury rules for ...