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Amazon's $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM shows federal lawmakers, not regulators, have the most power to curb tech's buying power.

Amazon has closed its $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM Studios as it looks to boost its streaming service in competition with Netflix and Disney.

One of them suffering a stroke shortly after his request to go home was denied.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, called for the breakup of Jeff Bezos's Amazon following a report that the online retail giant manufactured rip-off products and orchestrated product searches in India, according to a tweet Warren posted

The share price surged after two antitrust cases against the social network were dismissed.

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The news for Facebook couldn't have been better. What's happening: On Monday, a US judge dismissed two complaints that accused the company of holding a monopoly on social media — a major setback for regulators

Aides to President Joe Biden are drafting an executive order to deal with corporate mergers, in the latest sign his administration plans to crack down on practices it calls anticompetitive.

Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing unit has bought encrypted messaging platform Wickr to enable secure communication as employees largely work from home, the company said on Friday. Wickr, a startup founded by privacy advocates, offers to help develop s

Customers are the losers in Google's very public tussle with Roku over YouTube TV.What you need to knowRoku removed the YouTube TV app from its app store after negotiations with Google fell through.Google responded to the action, maintaining its posit

The AGs of 52 US states and territories are joining the feds to sue Google.

The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for antitrust violations, alleging that it abused its dominance in online search and advertising to stifle competition and harm consumers

The FTC has ordered Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft to provide information on acquisitions that were too small to report to regulators.

The Antimonopoly Committee issues $265 million fine for several big tobacco companies and distribution company TEDIS. Committee Chairman Yuriy Terentyev&n

The chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Chairman Joe Simons, acknowledged in an interview on Tuesday that perhaps maybe, just maybe, one outcome of an FTC task force inquiry into whether tech giants violated anticompetition laws could be forcing them t

After a leak from one of the company's employees, first reported by Belgian new outlet VRT NWS , Google has admitted that it gives workers access to some audio recordings from its Google Home and Android smart speakers.

A leading retail group sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission outlining its concerns over the dominance of major tech companies.

US regulators will investigate whether companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google have too much power. Here's an introduction to the issues.

Lawmakers launched a bipartisan probe into monopoly in the tech industry, while the Trump administration is investigating companies like Google and Facebook

Several of the large divisions of Alphabet could operate independently. As the government reviews how it might blunt Google's influence, these divisions offer a map for what Alphabet would look like broken into standalone companies.

Will the FTC suggest that Amazon.com be broken into pieces, thus blunting its power in both the e-commerce and cloud marketplaces? Amazon has three large segments, so cutting it up would not be difficult.