President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday his intention to nominate Mark Meador as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). If confirmed, Meador would take over the commissioner slot currently held by FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose term expired on September 26. Meador is an accomplished antitrust litigator, but his antagonism toward Big Tech, and […]
The merger between grocery store giants Kroger and Albertsons was halted by Judge Adrienne Nelson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon on Tuesday. Albertsons promptly sued Kroger on Wednesday, alleging that the company provided “insufficient divestiture proposals,” per The Wall Street Journal. This costly antitrust litigation involving the retail grocery stores—not […]
President Joe Biden’s administration has been horrible for tech companies. The incoming Trump administration may be just as bad. That’s disappointing, if not really surprising. During Donald Trump’s first presidential term, he frequently railed against big tech companies via his social media accounts, called for European-style regulation of tech businesses, and set out to ban […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to force Google to sell Chrome after a federal judge ruled that the tech giant had monopolized the search market. Making Google divest itself from Chrome and Android won’t significantly reduce Google’s share of the market for general search services, it will just harm consumers. The DOJ’s antitrust […]
At now-President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign rallies, attendees would hold “Trump Will Fix It” signs. Here’s hoping the antitrust policy that President Joe Biden excessively politicized is one of those “its.” Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, previously said he believes that Biden’s appointee as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lina Khan, has done […]