Regulation

5 stories in the last two weeks

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch ·

Travel app Hopper agrees to a $35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs

Hopper, the travel app known for its AI-driven flight and hotel price predictions, has agreed to a $35 million settlement following …

NPR ·

SCOTUS finds that Trump's 2025 firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful, placing independence of several agencies in doubt

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday further overturned a 91-year-old precedent that has prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies at will.

Matt Burgess / Wired ·

Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a significant rise in fraud within weeks

Europe's pro-competition proposals could see Google Search and Android systems opened up. The company claims there are serious privacy flaws.

Bloomberg ·

The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers

Elon Musk received a regulatory greenlight to acquire startup Mesh Optical Technologies, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers working …

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg ·

Preliminary findings: the EU says Azure and AWS are "the largest and second largest" cloud services in the EU, as the bloc weighs up tougher DMA oversight

Microsoft Corp.'s Azure and Amazon Web Services face tough European Union guardrails after regulators said they should be targeted by the bloc's Digital Markets Act.

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