Amazon plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot in a $1.7B all-cash deal; Colin Angle will remain as iRobot's CEO
Everyone's Favorite Robot Cleaning Company Financial Times : Amazon acquires Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7bn Jon Fingas / Engadget : Amazon is buying iRobot, the creator of the Roomba robot vacuum Chan...
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...
Senators Klobuchar and Cotton introduce a bill to regulate Big Tech acquisitions, which would force companies to prove proposed mergers aren't anticompetitive
@Google, @Amazon, @Facebook, @Apple — that are crushing competition, shuttering small businesses, and canceling conservatives. Break. 'Em. Up. https://twitter.com/... Ron Knox / @ronmknox : Today @amy...
FTC files a new antitrust complaint against Facebook, after a judge dismissed the first complaint in June; Facebook has until October 4 to respond
This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Tweets: @fbnewsroom : We are reviewing the FTC's amended complaint and will have more to say soon. Lina Khan / @linakhanftc : FTC Alleges...
DC attorney general sues Amazon on antitrust grounds, claiming the company's practices have unfairly raised prices for consumers and suppressed innovation
starting around 11 min in — from our Land of the Giants podcast about Amazon in 2019. In it, Amazon seller @Molson_Hart lays out the “price-parity” issue 2 years ahead of time: https://podcasts.google...