09 Dec 2019
WASHINGTON, Dec 9 U.S. state attorneys general,
led by New York and California, deliver opening arguments Monday
in a bid to stop T-Mobile U.S. from buying Sprint Corp
in a trial that highlights disagreements between federal
antitrust enforcers, who are Republican, and Democrats in
powerful states.
03 Dec 2019
WASHINGTON A draft consumer privacy bill written by Republican U.S. Senator Roger Wicker's staff would set nationwide rules for handling of personal information online and elsewhere and override state laws, including one in California set to take effect next year.
22 Nov 2019
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON A federal judge on Thursday rejected a U.S. government effort to disqualify a lawyer arguing for 15 states and the District of Columbia in their effort to block T-Mobile US Inc's planned $26.5 billion takeover of Sprint Corp .
19 Nov 2019
WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday it would ask a court to scrap decades-old 'Paramount' consent decrees enacted to protect movie theaters from powerful studios.
14 Nov 2019
WASHINGTON Lawmakers pressed top U.S. antitrust enforcers on their probes of tech giants Alphabet's Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple on Wednesday, with the chair of a House subcommittee expressing frustration over the companies' continued acquisitions.
12 Nov 2019
WASHINGTON The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Chuck Schumer, on Tuesday released a letter he wrote to Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy raising concerns about the U.S. military's use of the China-owned TikTok social media platform for recruiting American teenagers.
12 Nov 2019
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON State attorneys general are meeting on Monday in Colorado to discuss their probe into whether Google's business practices break antitrust law, according to two sources knowledgeable about the meeting.
12 Nov 2019
WASHINGTON Microsoft Corp said in a blog post on Monday that it would honour California's privacy law throughout the United States, expanding the impact of a strict set of rules meant to protect consumers and their data.