Meta concluded its defense in the FTC’s antitrust trial, calling WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton and a former Instagram infrastructure executive to argue that

The Federal Trade Commission is no longer challenging the $68.7 billion Microsoft-Activision merger in its administrative courts, the agency has confirmed.

The Republican-controlled Federal Trade Commission is abandoning a Biden-era effort to block Microsoft’s purchase of “Call of Duty” video game maker Activision Blizzard. In an order issued Thursday, the FTC said it had determined that “the public interest is best served by dismissing the administrative litigation in this case.

After losing key court fights, the FTC is moving on from its effort to undo the biggest gaming acquisition in history.

Trump's FTC has ditched several of former chair Lisa Khan's initiatives in favor of the president's priorities.

The Republican-controlled Federal Trade Commission has voted to dismiss a lawsuit against PepsiCo that the previous commission filed in the waning days of the Biden administration.

Southern California Edison (SCE), a unit of utility Edison International , agreed on Friday to pay $82.5 million to settle claims with the U.S. Forest Service for costs and damages resulting from the Bobcat Fire in 2020.

This is the end of the FTC’s fight to block a $68.7 billion deal that saw Microsoft purchase Activision Blizzard. The deal closed in 2023.

The FTC wants to prove Meta has a monopoly over personal social networking, so it wouldn’t view video app TikTok as a competitor.