Over the course of the four-day hearing, much of the testimony focused on Compass’s request that Zillow be barred from enforcing its listing access standards policy. However, the two parties also addressed Compass’s antitrust claims of restraint of trade and monopolization.

Strong antitrust enforcement is expected to continue, but without the use of the novel and untested legal theories that defined the Biden administration approach. Regulators are likely to continue to focus on Big Tech. The agencies are likely to be more ...

Antitrust law should avoid interfering with areas already demonstrating dynamism. In short, antitrust should ensure the best ideas win, the best products reach the shelves, and that business acumen—not cronyism—shapes the market.

Expect less of a fight against monopolies, and more of it shaped solely by the president’s private financial and political interests. In light of all this, can anybody wonder why Trump wants to eliminate a “whole-of-government” policy against antitrust?

Stephen Moore, who formerly wrote on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, is a distinguished visiting fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation. He was a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump during the ...

Vice President Vance's allies and former aides are set to have a key role in pushing the Trump administration to move aggressively to break up big corporations, including tech companies. Why it matters: It's the latest example of Vance leaning into an area ...

After President Trump’s election for a second term, those predicting where federal antitrust enforcement was headed had to contend with internal tensions in the Trump coalition that extend to economic policy more broadly: Will the administration be ...

EU antitrust regulators opened on Thursday an investigation into Meta Platforms' new policy regarding AI providers' access to its messaging service WhatsApp, saying this may prevent rivals from offering their services in Europe.

(Bloomberg) -- Top officials in the Justice Department’s antitrust division are trying to blunt an agency-wide reorganization plan from derailing major competition cases, according to people familiar with the matter. Gail Slater, who took over the unit ...

LONDON — WhatsApp faces an antitrust investigation in the European Union, where regulators said Thursday that they’re looking into the messaging service’s artificial intelligence policy. The European Commission said it opened the formal investigation because of concerns about WhatsApp’s move to limit access for third-party AI providers.