Bloomberg AT&T Inc. beat back another effort by the US to undo its purchase of Time Warner, cementing an $85 billion deal to help it compete with Netflix Inc. The US Appeals Court in Washington said the Justice Department failed to establish that a lower-court judge made a clear error when he rejected the government’s case that AT&T should be ...

Bloomberg US antitrust enforcers are zeroing in on technology giants following years of criticism that they haven’t done enough to rein in dominant internet companies like Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. The Federal Trade Commission said it’s creating a task force led by senior competition officials and 17 staff lawyers to investigate potentially anticompetitive conduct by technology companies. It ...

Bloomberg Italian business and economic confidence fell, signaling a possible continuation of the recession that started late last year. Italy’s coalition leaders have been rallying around their message that growth will pick up, defying projections the economy will have trouble expanding significantly this year. Premier Giuseppe Conte said this week he foresees growth “at least in the second half.” The ...