When COVID vaccines started becoming widely available in early 2021 and demand for ride-hailing services began to recover, Bay Area company Lyft launched a nationwide campaign to recruit drivers with …
Four years ago, one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ top donors—the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman—celebrated the IPO of Airbnb, a company he was heavily invested in, by fashioning …
A report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found that major social media and video streaming have been engaged in ‘vast surveillance,’ including of children. The FTC published a …
By Dee-Ann Durbin | Associated Press The largest proposed grocery store merger in U.S. history is going to court. On one side are supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons, which say …
The Fair Trade Commission plans to issue cease-and-desist orders to four major nonlife insurers for forming a cartel over premiums for joint insurance contracts for Keisei Electric Railway, in violation …
The Fair Trade Commission raided Harley-Davidson’s Japan unit in Tokyo on Tuesday for allegedly imposing excessive sales quotas on its dealers, in violation of the antimonopoly law. Harley-Davidson Japan is …
Many of yesterday’s talks were littered with the acronyms you’d expect from this assemblage of high-minded panelists: YC, FTC, AI, LLMs. But threaded throughout the conversations—foundational to them, you might …
According to an unredacted Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against Adobe, one company executive said that the early termination fees were “a bit like heroin for Adobe” and that removing …
BRUSSELS – Microsoft has given up its board observer seat at OpenAI in a move aimed at easing U.S. and U.K. antitrust regulators’ concerns about the extent of its control …
(The Hill) — Adobe made it intentionally difficult for customers to cancel subscriptions to its products including Photoshop, “trapping users” in expensive contracts, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged in …