Mark Zuckerberg blasts Apple and Google in opening testimony, grilled on Facebook's plans to neutralize competitors. Tim Cook defends Apple's App Store policy. Jeff Bezos faces criticism over Amazon's treatment of third-party sellers, can't say if employees can access independent store data. Sundar Pichai criticized over Google's digital ad business, privacy practices and policies toward working with the military.
The CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon testified in Congress today — trying to convince the House Judiciary Committee that their business practices don’t amount to anti-competitive monopolies. It’s one of the biggest tech oversight moments in recent years, part of a long-running antitrust …
Apple and Google have used online privacy and security measures to gain a competitive advantage, Congress members said.
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During today’s testimony before a Congressional antitrust panel, Mark Zuckerberg went off-script a little bit -- at least the script we expected -- …
CEO Sundar Pichai takes intense heat from lawmakers.
In late February 2012, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg emailed his chief financial officer, David Ebersman, to float the idea of buying smaller competitors, including Instagram and Path. “These businesses are nascent but the networks established, the brands are already meaningful, and if they grow to …
The Apple CEO named the Xbox and Playstation as competitors to its App Store. Really, though? Is Tim Cook more of a Ryu or a Ken? Speaking to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law via WebEx on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the company from …
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Google’s Sundar Pichai faced an awkward line of enquiry during today’s House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing related to its 2007 acquisition of adtech platform DoubleClick, and how it went on to renege on an original promise to lawmakers and regulators that it would not (nor could not) merge …
In a historic hearing questioning the heads of four of the nation’s five largest technology companies, the chair of Congress’s antitrust …
