The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to break up Live Nation Entertainment, Ticketmaster’s parent company, over antitrust violations.
Microsoft dodges UK antitrust scrutiny over its Mistral AI stake
Microsoft won’t be facing antitrust scrutiny in the U.K. over its recent investment in French AI startup, Mistral AI, with the country’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on […]
10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now #1 on the iOS charts
Video game emulator Delta’s decade-long struggle against the iOS app store began with a school-issued TI-84 calculator. When Riley Testut was a sophomore in high school, he showed […]
Google dubs Epic’s demands from its antitrust win ‘unnecessary’ and ‘far beyond the scope’ of the verdict
In a new filing, Google is pushing back against Fortnite maker Epic Games’ numerous proposed remedies after a court determined Google engaged in anticompetitive practices on its Play […]
Gen Z is losing its political voice on social media
President Joe Biden signed the bill this week that could ban TikTok from the U.S. if its parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell the platform. According to young political […]
Y Combinator alum Matterport is being bought by real estate juggernaut Costar at a 212% premium
Digital twin platform Matterport has agreed to be acquired by one of its customers, Costar, in a cash-and-stock deal of $5.50 per share that gives it an enterprise […]
Lina Khan, Steve Case & more join StrictlyVC in Washington, D.C.
Late last summer, TechCrunch joined forces with StrictlyVC to create smaller, more intimate evenings for our readers. Already this year, we’ve hosted these nights in San Francisco and […]
Big Tech’s ad transparency tools — especially X’s — are failing at their jobs, report finds
A new report from Mozilla and CheckFirst analyzed a dozen failing ad transparency tools, signaling a lot of work ahead of the 2024 election.