Washington’s important antitrust regulators–the Federal Commerce Fee and the Division of Justice–made a joint announcement on Tuesday that they intend to take a look at large tech mergers by a special lens sooner or later. The 2 businesses held a joint information convention Monday morning to announce the start of a joint course of to put in writing new guidelines ...

The Justice Division on Tuesday filed a lawsuit towards writer Penguin Random Home that seeks to dam its proposed merger with rival Simon & Schuster. It’s one of many Biden administration’s first large antitrust challenges, and it alleges Penguin’s acquisition would give it an excessive amount of management over what books are printed in America and the way a lot ...

Already going through the U.S.’s biggest antitrust case because the ’90s Microsoft saga, Google could also be a second lawsuit earlier than yr’s finish. The Division of Justice is said to be “accelerating” a separate investigation into the corporate’s digital promoting practices this time, Bloomberg and different shops reported, and will sue Google once more inside months. The company didn’t ...