Federal regulators are ramping up their investigation of the market dominance of giant tech companies, demanding detailed information on five companies’ acquisitions of smaller firms back to 2010. The Federal Trade Commission announced the move this week, issuing orders to ...

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U.S. communications regulators have cut off government funding for equipment from two Chinese companies, citing security threats. The Federal Communications Commission also proposed requiring companies that get government subsidies to rip out any equipment from Huawei and ZTE that they ...

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Google’s video site YouTube has been fined $170 million to settle allegations it collected children’s personal data without their parents’ consent. The Federal Trade Commission fined Google $136 million and the company will pay an additional $34 million to New ...

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A trade group representing thousands of local U.S. television stations sued the Federal Communications Commission to block an auction of airwaves to wireless providers.

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The court’s decision appears to continue its trend of deferring to federal agencies’ statutory interpretations, encouraging incremental growth of federal agency power in this area.

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Comcast Corp., the biggest U.S. cable-television provider, won a legal victory as a court threw out a rule limiting cable companies to 30 percent of the market. The Federal Communications Commission failed to fully consider competition from companies such as ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court revived the Federal Communications Commission’s effort to fine CBS Corp. for the half-second exposure of Janet Jackson’s breast during the 2004 Super Bowl, telling a lower court to reconsider the case. A Philadelphia-based federal appeals court ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court revived a government attempt to fine broadcasters for isolated expletives on live television while hinting that the crackdown ultimately might be voided on free-speech grounds. Voting 5-4 along ideological lines, the high court said the Federal ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court won’t review a dispute between the Missouri Public Service Commission and Southwestern Bell Telephone over the authority of the commission to enforce a provision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The high court denied the commission’s ...

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