Facebook, Apple, More Big Tech’s Small Deals to Be Scrutinised at US FTC Meeting

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, Apple, More Big Tech’s Small Deals to Be Scrutinised at US FTC Meeting

The US Federal Trade Commission will hold its next open meeting on September 15 to hear staff findings on deals that Big Tech firms like

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and Apple make which are sometimes too small to spark antitrust scrutiny, the agency said on Wednesday.

The agency began holding open meetings after Chair Lina Khan was sworn in June. Next week, the five commissioners will also consider whether to scrap guidelines put in place during the Trump administration regarding deals that combine a company with one of its suppliers.

The staff report will include Big Tech acquisitions from 2010 to 2019, some of which were not reported to antitrust enforcers because of their small size.

The Big Tech firms, which also include Alphabet’s

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, have been under antitrust scrutiny for more than two years. The FTC has sued

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while the Justice Department sued

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. Others remain under investigation.

The agency had sent demands for information to five big tech firms, including

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, in February 2020, saying that it wanted to probe whether any of the smaller deals resulted in harm to competition.

The three Democrats and two Republicans on the commission will also vote on whether to issue a policy statement on privacy breaches by health apps and a process for accepting input on potential rules.

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