“It’s like soccer,” said Kirsten Daru, the general counsel of Tile, which has accused Apple of acting anti-competitively. The hearing at the University of Colorado at Boulder put public faces on the pain caused by some of the largest tech companies in the United States. ADADThe House investigation comes as the federal government’s two competition agencies, the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department, proceed with their own probes into Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google for potential antitrust violations. Nearly every state attorney general, meanwhile, has trained their sights on Facebook and Google, announcing wide-ranging inquiries of their own earlier this year. “The idea we’re not going to regulate tech companies is so 1990s,” Weiser said in an interview before he spoke.

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2020 19:21 UTC