Tag: mergers
The U.S. Wants to Break Up Google and Meta. That Could Be Hard.
The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company was a quarter-century ago, after Microsoft was found...
Zuckerberg Says He Bought Instagram and WhatsApp Because Building Apps Is Hard
In a second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said he bought Instagram and...
What If Mark Zuckerberg Had Not Bought Instagram and WhatsApp?
In 2012, when Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg cut a $1 billion check to buy the photo-sharing app Instagram, most people thought he had...
U.S. Argues Meta Built a Social Media Monopoly
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday accused Meta of creating a monopoly that squelched competition by buying start-ups that stood in its way, kicking...
U.S. Prepares to Challenge Meta’s Social Media Dominance
Soon after Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, the social network skyrocketed in popularity. Roughly a decade later, the...