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Summary List Placement Antitrust seems to be back in fashion as a topic of concern in Washington, DC, particularly after Congress harangued the heads of four leading tech companies earlier this summer about their alleged anticompetitive moves. But any real effort to promote competition and constrain monopolies is going to require a major reassessment — and quite possibly a revamping — of laws, policies,...

Evidence is mounting that Google might soon be hit with at least one major antitrust case in the US. But it will be a long and complex battle to prove that Google has acted anticompetitively and hurt consumers as a result. A previous FTC staff attorney who worked on the famous Microsoft antitrust case in the '90s explained how a case could play out,...

As antitrust probes are heating up against Google, business owners are speaking up against one of its controversial ad practices, known in the industry as "conquesting."  The practice allows businesses to bid on a competitor's name, even if that name has been trademarked.  The only way to remain at the top of search results, companies like Edible Arrangements told Business Insider recently, is to...