Bloomberg The Trump administration came to the defense of T-Mobile US Inc in its fight to buy Sprint Corp, telling a judge overseeing an antitrust lawsuit brought by several states that blocking the $26.5 billion merger would harm consumers. The Justice Department’s antitrust division and the independent Federal Communications Commission said in a joint court filing that their approval of ...

Bloomberg Google was fined 150 million euros ($167 million) in a French antitrust case involving online advertising as regulators throughout Europe criticise the tech giant’s business practices. The French authority found Google abused its dominant position in search when it set “opaque and difficult to understand operating rules” for its Google Ads advertising platform that it applied unfairly and randomly. ...

Bloomberg A US judge decided it’s too risky to let an engineer stop wearing a device that tracks his whereabouts while he awaits trial on charges he stole trade secrets from Apple Inc’s autonomous-driving project before taking a new job in China. But, in a setback for federal prosecutors, the judge said in a separate ruling that electronic monitoring is ...