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Josh Sisco

@joshua_sisco
38 posts
2024-10-01
Whoa. Seattle judge dismisses some of the FTCs antitrust case against Amazon but we don't know bc details are sealed til mid oct [image]
2024-10-01 View on X
Reuters

A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of an FTC lawsuit accusing it of illegal monopolies, in a sealed ruling whose details weren't immediately clear

Jody Godoy / Reuters :

2024-08-04
Scoop: DOJ steps up antitrust scrutiny of Nvidia with an investigation into its April acquisition of Israeli startup Run:ai. DOJ lawyers have also begun quizzing rivals of the chip giant as part of a larger investigation. https://www.politico.com/...
2024-08-04 View on X
Politico

Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Nvidia's acquisition of Run:ai, a Tel Aviv-based startup that enables virtualization of GPUs, on antitrust grounds

investigating potential strong-arm tactics related to AI GPU supply Hope King / Axios : Report: Nvidia faces DOJ antitrust probe Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Justice Department...

2024-08-03
Scoop: DOJ steps up antitrust scrutiny of Nvidia with an investigation into its April acquisition of Israeli startup Run:ai. DOJ lawyers have also begun quizzing rivals of the chip giant as part of a larger investigation. https://www.politico.com/...
2024-08-03 View on X
Politico

Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Nvidia's acquisition of Run:ai, a Tel Aviv-based startup that enables virtualization of GPUs, on antitrust grounds

investigating potential strong-arm tactics related to AI GPU supply Hope King / Axios : Report: Nvidia faces DOJ antitrust probe Associated Press : The government is reportedly inv...

2024-08-02
Scoop: DOJ steps up antitrust scrutiny of Nvidia with an investigation into its April acquisition of Israeli startup Run:ai. DOJ lawyers have also begun quizzing rivals of the chip giant as part of a larger investigation. https://www.politico.com/...
2024-08-02 View on X
Politico

Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Nvidia's acquisition of Run:ai, a Tel Aviv-based startup that enables virtualization of GPUs, on antitrust grounds

The investigation adds to the global pressure by regulators to prevent control of artificial intelligence by just a handful of the world's largest technology companies.

2024-06-06
New: The FTC and DOJ finally, after a year of negotiations, reach agreement who gets what for their AI antitrust investigations. DOJ takes Nvidia (and keeps Google, while the FTC will get Microsoft and OpenAI (and keep Amazon.) https://www.politico.com/... (@dmccabe with the scoop)
2024-06-06 View on X
New York Times

Sources: the US DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia has violated antitrust laws; the US FTC will lead the inquiries into OpenAI and Microsoft

The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.

2024-03-27
Scoop! TikTok has been under FTC scrutiny for at least the past two years over privacy and data security and the agency could decide to bring a case in the coming weeks. https://www.politico.com/...
2024-03-27 View on X
Politico

Sources: the US FTC is investigating TikTok over allegedly faulty privacy and data security practices, and could bring a lawsuit or settlement within weeks

TikTok Now Faces an FTC Investigation Amid Senators Debating a Ban Reuters : US Federal Trade Commission could reach settlement with or sue TikTok over probe on children's privacy,...

2023-12-23
Spent a couple months on this story about FTC Chair Lina Khan. I've been covering antitrust and competition policy for 10 years and with Khan, Jonathan Kanter at DOJ and others in the administration, its far and away the most compelling time on the beat. https://www.politico.com/...
2023-12-23 View on X
Politico

A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, who on a trip to Silicon Valley in November aimed to convince a skeptical tech sector that the government was there to help

FTC Chair Lina Khan's vast ambitions to cut back on corporate power could be a huge part of Biden's legacy — if they come to fruition. X: @chase_sutton99 , @caffar3cristina , @josh...

2023-06-14
The FTC's weeks long admin. trial starts Aug. 2, so its possible there could be a PI ruling before that starts. The companies are barred from closing their deal until the 5th day after Corley rules. She is already familiar with the case from presiding over a related class action
2023-06-14 View on X
The Verge

A US court issues a temporary restraining order preventing Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets an evidentiary hearing for June 22 and 23, 2023

A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard — at least for now.

Judge Corley in SF who is overseeing the FTC's just filed fed court case to block the Microsoft/Activision deal, set a hearing for June 22-23, less than two weeks after the FTC sought the preliminary injunction. Not sure if this has ever happened so fast https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
2023-06-14 View on X
The Verge

A US court issues a temporary restraining order preventing Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets an evidentiary hearing for June 22 and 23, 2023

A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard — at least for now.

2023-02-23
Scoop: A third DOJ case against Google could be filed this year, targeting the companies mapping business. The DOJ has been meeting in recent weeks with customers and competitors to suss out potential witnesses, with more meeting in the next month https://www.politico.com/...
2023-02-23 View on X
Politico

Sources: US DOJ officials met with Google's competitors and customers for an antitrust lawsuit over Google Maps and location data that could be filed in 2023

Justice Department antitrust lawyers are homing in on yet another Google target: the company's vast mapping business.

2023-01-25
DOJ v Google lawsuit over adtech market is coming momentarily. No complaint yet but docket is up. States including CA, NY, VA, CO join DOJ case in eastern district of virginia https://www.courtlistener.com/ ...
2023-01-25 View on X
Bloomberg

The DOJ sues Google, joined by California and seven other US states, calling for the breakup of its ad tech business that allegedly monopolizes the US ad market

1. An open, vibrant internet is indispensable to American life. Lauren Feiner / CNBC : DOJ files second antitrust suit against Google, seeks to break up its ad business Wall Street...

2023-01-14
Jonathan Kanter's clearance to work on Google matters at the DOJ antitrust division potentially paves the way for a lawsuit targeting the company's ad tech business in a matter of weeks https://www.politico.com/...
2023-01-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: DOJ cleared its antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter to oversee probes involving Google; Google had sought his recusal, citing his work with Yelp and others

Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter's involvement had been paused and the Alphabet unit sought his recusal

2022-12-20
A bill increasing fees companies pay when filing mergers for reg review is the sole antitrust bill in the omnibus. But an important catch, there will be a two year delay on fee hikes, meaning money desperately needed now by the FTC and DOJ won't be there https://subscriber.politicopro.com/ ...
2022-12-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

As US lawmakers considered adding antitrust bills to the omnibus spending package, tech trade group CCIA, Meta, Amazon, and more ramped up opposition to them

Industry has spent more than $100 million to fight antitrust measures and other bills in Congress  —  How Apple's iPhone and Apps Trap You in a Walled Garden

2022-11-03
Scoop: The DOJ is gearing up for a lengthy probe of Adobe's $20 billion deal for Figma, questioning competitors, customers and investors and sending out subpoenas to third parties https://subscriber.politicopro.com/ ...
2022-11-03 View on X
Politico

Sources: the US DOJ is preparing to open an in-depth probe into Adobe's $20B acquisition of Figma and has been contacting customers, competitors, and investors

Josh Sisco / Politico :

2022-08-27
Scoop: DOJ in beginning stage of drafting an antitrust complaint against Apple, and could sue as early as this year. A case could include both App Store stuff and other issues around hardware access, ie the complaint from Tile https://www.politico.com/...
2022-08-27 View on X
Politico

Sources: the US DOJ is in the early stages of drafting a potential antitrust complaint against Apple but has not decided whether or when to sue the company

Justice Department lawyers are in the early stages of drafting a potential antitrust complaint against Apple, according to a person …

2022-07-20
also released today as part of the committee finalizing the 2020 online platform antitrust report was the text of Facebooks Cunningham memo, detailing how the company views competition between its own services as more of a threat than outside companies. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-07-20 View on X
The Verge

US lawmakers release internal Amazon, Meta, and Google documents that they say show evidence of self-preferencing, as they call for tougher tech antitrust laws

The House Judiciary Committee released new documents Tuesday  —  New internal documents released Tuesday detail how three …

2022-05-02
The “overall trends are not where we want them to be,” Khan said thu in a staff email about the results of a staff satisfaction survey, pledging to “understand the root causes” & “strengthen communication and relationships more broadly within the agency.” https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2022-05-02 View on X
The Information

Internal FTC survey: overall satisfaction among staff has dropped from 89% in 2020 to 60% in 2021; in an email, Lina Khan pledges to fix sinking staff morale

Under both Republican and Democratic administrations, the Federal Trade Commission has consistently ranked in the top five … Tweets: @cswilsonftc , @cswilsonftc , @heynottheface , ...

2022-04-30
New: In the latest in app store antitrust fights, Epic Games just filed for a preliminary injunction to force Google to keep Epic's newly acquired Bandcamp in the Google Play app store without also requiring the use of Google's payment system https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
2022-04-30 View on X
The Verge

Epic Games, which acquired Bandcamp in March, asks a US court to bar Google from removing its app from the Play Store if it doesn't implement its IAP by June 1

2022-04-29
It took Elon Musk, but I got a story about the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976 into The Information. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-29 View on X
The Information

Sources: the FTC opened an inquiry into whether Elon Musk complied with its reporting requirement as he amassed his 9.1% Twitter stake between January and April

It took Elon Musk, but I got a story about the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976 into The Information. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: during Twitter deal negotiations, Elon Musk said he would be focused on the company's bottom line and floated the idea of cutting both costs and jobs

As he negotiated a $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter Inc., Elon Musk told bankers that he would be focused …