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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…

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

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…

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

Klokken kvart over syv i morges gik jeg er supermarkedet og kŸbte ind til en stor gryde kŸdsovs. Det er til ÆldsteSŸn som for nogle uger siden rapporterede at han knokler på studiet og som undervisningsassistent og lægger over 60 timer om ugen i det. Vi har allerede været god ham med et læs nedfrosne madretter, og dette bliver så det andet. Og han er glad og lettet 😇

Meta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume buying startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a slowdown under Lina Khan (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-ruling-silicon-valley…

Meta’s Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping
To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta’s antitrust win may change that thinking.

India has issued a final warning to #Apple that it will proceed in an #antitrust case against the U.S. tech giant
as the company has delayed responses to officials for over a year and undermined the investigation,
a confidential order shows.
Apple has said it fears it could be
👉fined up to $38 bil…

Good video by the @… folks over on TikTok:
So now Google (with the AI detection tool) is now selling the antidote for the poison they’re pushing down everyone’s throats.🙄

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

from my link log —
Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra.
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
saved 2025-10-27

Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra
In which I explore the biggest barrier in the busy beaver game. What is Antihydra, what is the Collatz conjecture, how are they connected, and what makes them so daunting?

EU backs another one-year delay for EUDR antideforestation law https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/eu-backs-another-one-year-delay-for-eudr-antideforestation-law/

EU backs another one-year delay for EUDR antideforestation law
The European Union has voted to postpone implementing a key antideforestation law for the second year in a row, citing technical concerns. Critics of the move warn that a delay and other proposed changes will further weaken the law. On Nov. 26, the European Parliament voted 402 to 250 in favor of an amendment that […]

Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/apple-pay-swiss-antitrust-probe-nfc/

Apple Pay Faces Swiss Antitrust Investigation Over NFC Access
Switzerland's competition authority has launched a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to...