A US federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1
Document #65 Ryan Mac / New York Times : Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores Anthony Kimery / Biometric Update : Judge blocks Texas app store age verification law as unconstitutiona...
Sources: the US DOJ is conducting a criminal antitrust probe into whether Live Nation and AEG illegally colluded on concert refunds at the start of the pandemic
Bloomberg : X: @matthewstoller and @benbrodydc See also Mediagazer X: Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : A criminal antitrust probe of Live Nation-Ticketmaster? Yes please. https://www.bloomberg.com/.....
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court
Justice Department Appeals Parts of Judge's Ruling on Documents Seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago David McCabe / New York Times : A federal court clears the way for a Texas social media law. Rebecca Kern /...
Interview with DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter, his first since taking office, on the agency's goals, clamping down on mergers, and more
Bloomberg : Tweets: @stuloren , @paulaedwyer , @tina_davis , and @benbrodydc Tweets: Stuart Loren / @stuloren : 1/ Antitrust wasn't my best grade in law school, but I learned enough to know that you ...
Profile of the Coalition for App Fairness, a group launched by Epic, Spotify, Tile, Match Group, and others to fight Google and Apple's app store policies
Ben Brody / Protocol :
Profile of the Coalition for App Fairness, a group created by Epic, Spotify, Match Group, and others, seeking to open Google and Apple app stores to competition
Ben Brody / Protocol : Tweets: @benbrodydc , @appfairness , @adamkovac , and @wexler Tweets: Ben Brody / @benbrodydc : Of all the Big Tech antitrust fights, the hardest punches probably landed in app...
FTC says Amazon has agreed to pay $61.7M+ to settle charges that it failed to pay Flex drivers the full amount of tips they received over two and a half years
Ben Brody / Protocol :
FTC's antitrust suit against Facebook seeks to break it up, unlike DOJ's more measured strike against Google, which asks only for “structural relief as needed”
Ben Brody / Bloomberg : Tweets: @jessefelder Tweets: Jesse Felder / @jessefelder : 'The FTC is trying to achieve something that hasn't happened in four decades: the breakup of one of America's bigges...