Tag: FTC
FTC Seeks To Block Illumina’s Planned $7B Grail Deal
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit Tuesday, March 30, that seeks to block Illumina’s planned US$7.1 billion acquisition of a developer of...
Statement by Acting Chairwoman On FTC’s Qualcomm Decision
Following the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision not to petition the Supreme Court for review of the Qualcomm case, Acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter...
FTC Won’t Seek SCOTUS Revival Of Four-Year Antitrust Qualcomm Suit
US antitrust enforcers are abandoning their lawsuit against Qualcomm that accused the company of abusing its dominant position in chips that power smartphones, reported...
Why Canada’s toothless Competition Bureau can’t go after Big Tech
By Vass Bednar and Robin Shaban, Special to National Post
President Joe Biden’s recent nomination and appointment, respectively, of superstar scholars Lina Khan to the Federal Trade...
Acting FTC Chairwoman Slaughter Appoints Agency’s Public Affairs Director
Acting Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter announced that she has appointed Lindsay Kryzak as Director of the agency’s Office of Public...
Biden Nominates Antitrust Expert Lina Khan For FTC Commissioner
US President Joe Biden intends to nominate Lina Khan, a former counsel to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, to be a...
Republican FTC Commissioner Talks Facebook Antitrust Suit
Noah Phillips, Republican commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), explained why he voted against bringing the agency’s antitrust lawsuit against Facebook during a...
Senators Want Oversight Review Of Obama FTC’s Google Deal
Three senators are demanding the Senate Judiciary Committee convene a hearing examining new alarm over the Obama-era Federal Trade Commission's decision not to take...
AstraZeneca Delays FTC Review For $39B Alexion Deal
AstraZeneca is resetting the clock to give the Federal Trade Commission more time to review its roughly US$39 billion bid for Alexion Pharmaceuticals, the...
FTC Reportedly Won’t Appeal Qualcomm Case At Supreme Court
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has less than two weeks left to file a Supreme Court appeal regarding a court decision last year that...
