WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department has decided to pursue an in-depth investigation of AT&T's plan to buy of T-Mobile USA, according to ...

The discussion of Google and antitrust has shifted in recent weeks from relevant market and anticompetitive behavior to consumer happiness. The problem is that consumers are not always the best judges of their own welfare.

Google's string of legal scandals could be taking it down a similar road to that of the finance sector, which is now being reined in after causing a global disaster.

A Justice Department announcement today sets quite a dramatic precedent in creating a new vision of Google as a publicly accountable company.

April 5, 2011 3:10:56 AM NEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering an antitrust investigation of Google In...

People deserve to be back in control of their online experience, not merely a data point in a product marketed to advertisers. But there is no "market" incentive for this to happen. Only regulation can bring it about.

If monopoly of search can trump diversity of source, then a dominant search engine has enormous power to promote its own offerings and to stifle innovation in a range of industries. Other problems likewise follow automatically.

The FTC case goes to trial early this fall. The result of the litigation could not be more important for consumers. If the FTC prevails, we may see lower priced microprocessors leading to lower cost and faster computers.