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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has asked a U.S. judge in Texas to transfer an antitrust lawsuit filed by 10 states in December to a court in California, a state that has more relevant witnesses and documents needed by the company, it said. In December, Texas and nine other states sued Google LLC in a U.S. court in Sherman, Texas, accusing the search engine company of working with Facebook Inc in a way that violated antitrust law to boost its already-dominant… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) was hit with a lawsuit Monday from conservative social media app Parler over its decision to block the startup from Amazon Web Services (AWS) — and at least one AWS competitor would make no moral judgement about hosting Parler’s content on its servers. Amazon’s policy, and the policies of other tech giants that blocked Parler after millions of President Donald Trump’s supporters flocked to the startup, stand in contrast to those adopted by that competitor, Zurich-based… Source link

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. The federal judge hearing the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google said on Friday he directed his financial advisers to immediately sell mutual funds he owns that hold stock of the search engine’s parent Alphabet Inc. Separately, Google said in a brief court filing that it would not ask for the case to be thrown out at an early stage based on procedural issues. GET FOX BUSINESS ON… Source link

TipRanks Oppenheimer: These 3 Stocks Could Spike Over 80% Wall Street’s best firms don’t just look at the stocks, they look at the big picture, too. And Oppenheimer’s chief investment strategist, John Stoltzfus, is particularly adept at showing us the macro view. In his first note of the new year, Stoltzfus notes a series of factors that are going to impact the markets. The big news, of course, the 800-pound gorilla that cannot be ignored, is the ongoing COVID epidemic. The disease is… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is shown at one of the company’s office complexes in Irvine, California, U.S., July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The judge hearing the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust case against Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday he had directed his financial advisers to immediately sell mutual funds he owns that hold Google stock. Judge Amit Mehta said he learned that “some of our mutual fund holdings do contain two different classes of Alphabet… Source link

WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) – The judge hearing the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust case against Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday he had directed his financial advisers to immediately sell mutual funds he owns that hold Google stock. Judge Amit Mehta said he learned that “some of our mutual fund holdings do contain two different classes of Alphabet stock” and directed their sale. Mehta said “neither my wife nor I directed the purchase of these particular funds; they were… Source link

By Jarrett Renshaw and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) -President-elect Joe Biden will nominate federal appeals judge Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general, a Biden transition official said on Wednesday, a choice most Americans know as the Supreme Court nominee of President Barack Obama memorably blocked by Republicans. Garland, 68, serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, one of 13 federal appeals courts. Obama, a Democrat, nominated him to… Source link

Judge Nicholas Garaufis on Friday directed the Trump administration to fully restore the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, which was designed during the Obama administration to protect younger undocumented immigrants from deportation. Per The New York Times, the decision may be the “final blow” to President Trump’s years-long quest to eliminate the program. The order requires the Department of Homeland Security to post a public notice by Monday that it will accept new DACA… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is shown at one of the company’s office complexes in Irvine, California, U.S., July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The federal judge hearing the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google urged the government on Wednesday to narrow the definition of “highly sensitive” information as he considered arguments on which of Google’s lawyers would be able to see evidence produced by other companies. U.S. District… Source link

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google must tell a district court how it will respond to a federal antitrust lawsuit by mid-November, with the two sides making initial disclosures later in the month, U.S. Judge Amit Mehta said in a brief order Friday. FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is shown at one of the company’s office complexes in Irvine, California, U.S., July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake The U.S. Justice Department sued Google on Oct. 20, accusing the $1 trillion company of illegally using… Source link