Displaying items by tag: Federal Trade Commission

Microsoft has no plans to clarify issues about the breach of its Azure cloud environment, which are still hazy, the company says.

US Senator Ron Wyden has asked the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to hold Microsoft responsible for its "negligent cyber-security practices, which enabled a successful Chinese espionage campaign against the US Government".

Microsoft and games company Activision Blizzard have agreed to an extension of time, until 18 October, for concluding their US$70 billion (A$103 billion) merger that was first announced in January 2022.

The US Federal Trade Commission is still seeking to stop the deal between Microsoft and games producer Activision Blizzard, requesting an appeals court on Thursday to put a temporary stop to the agreement soon after a federal judge refused a similar plea.

The US Federal Trade Commission is gearing up to hit Amazon with an anti-trust lawsuit, accusing the company of favouring companies who use its logistics services and not helping those who don't.

The North American-based Coalition for Fair Software Licensing has called on the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft's licensing practices which it claims are anti-competitive.

The US Federal Trade Commission has announced it will take action against Amazon for enrolling consumers into its Prime program without consent and making it difficult for consumers to leave.

Former Uber Technologies chief security office Joseph Sullivan, who was sacked by the company in November 2017 along with one of his deputies over a October 2016 data breach, has been found guilty of criminal obstruction charges for not reporting the breach to government authorities.

Search giant Google is on the backfoot on Thursday as it attempts to damp down details about the Federal Trade Commission deciding not to launch an anti-trust probe into the company back in 2012.

American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company Qualcomm has been found to have illegally suppressed competition for smartphone processors by holding out the threat of limiting supplies and obtaining excessive licensing fees.

Only three of the major cloud providers — AWS, Alibaba and Microsoft — will remain in the market after a few years, with AWS continuing to dominate during 2019, a veteran technology journalist says in his annual tech predictions.

A Republican senator in the US has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google over what could be anti-competitive acts in its "search and digital advertising practices".

The US Federal Trade Commission has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against processor manufacturer Qualcomm, charging the company with using anti-competitive tactics to maintain its monopoly in the supply of a key semiconductor device.

SilverPush is called a ‘cross-mapping’ platform that unifies data points from the billions of digital devices around the globe. In the company’s words, “Redefining TV Advertising.”

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has again slapped a warning on the Kellogg Company for making unproven claims in its cereal. This time it is with Rice Krispies after the company says the cereal helps support the health of a child's immunity system.

The US Federal Trade Commission has given the go-ahead for Google's acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob.