FTC v. Meta: TikTok's rise undermined the FTC's antitrust case and helped Meta avoid a breakup; Judge Boasberg said the tech landscape has "changed markedly" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-google-antitrust-t…
A US judge rules that Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions don't violate antitrust law as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitru…
{annotater}: Annotate package load calls, so we can have an idea of the overall purpose of the libraries we’re loading: #rstats
A US judge rules Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp don't violate antitrust law, as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitrus…
nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Senators Warren and Blumenthal call on AG Bondi to recuse herself from reviewing the WBD deal due to her prior employment with lobbying firm Ballard Partners (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/media/warren-bondi-antitrust-warner-bros-netf…
Sources: South Korean antitrust officials visited Arm's Seoul offices as part of ongoing scrutiny of its licensing practices, following Qualcomm's complaint (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
A lawyer says 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed an antitrust complaint in China alleging Apple abuses its market dominance by restricting app distribution (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata
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AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/19/alphaxiv-raises-7m-funding-be…