Two rulings — in federal and state courts — make it increasingly likely that Kroger might abandon its $24.6 billion plan to buy Albertsons. The merger aimed to combine two of America’s largest supermarket chains.
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Texas judge steps aside in Elon Musk’s X case against advertisers
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor had been overseeing two cases filed by Musk’s social media platform X. Records showed O’Connor was also an investor in Tesla, another Musk company, as well as Unilever, a defendant in the Musk case.
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Google is defiant after losing antitrust lawsuit and being called a ‘monopolist’
A federal judge rules that Google illegally abused its monopoly power to maintain its control over the search engine business. Google says it’s appealing.
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Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance
The highly anticipated decision comes nearly a year after the start of a trial pitting the U.S. Justice Department against Google in the country’s biggest antitrust showdown in a quarter century.
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Jury orders NFL to pay billions in ‘Sunday Ticket’ case for violating antitrust laws
The lawsuit covered 2.4 million residential subscribers and 48,000 businesses in the United States who paid for the package of out-of-market games from the 2011 through 2022 seasons on DirecTV.
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Will the feds block a grocery megamerger? Kroger and Albertsons will soon find out
America’s two largest supermarket chains have struck a $25 billion deal to combine. Now the FTC is about to decide whether it will block or allow it, and under what conditions.
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Will the feds block a grocery megamerger? Kroger and Albertsons will soon find out
America’s two largest supermarket chains have struck a $25 billion deal to combine. Now the FTC is about to decide whether it will block or allow it, and under what conditions.
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Q&A: Cicilline On Tech Anti-Trust Investigation
Rhode Island Congressman David Cicilline is leading a House sub-committee inquiry into possible anti-trust violations by some of the nation’s tech giants. It comes as many of them, including Facebook, Google, and Amazon, face increased scrutiny for the role they play in our politics and our pocketbooks. We spoke with Rep. Cicilline about the investigation.
