dollars for dark patterns. coaxing customers to buy things. amazon apparently allegedly code named this pro sense of trying to get out of your prime membership. i don t have my copy to reference. as we know, i wrote a column about the trojan war. so did they knowingly coerce customers to manipulate them? this is the question. it comes on the heels of a variety of antitrust lawsuits in this country and in the e.u. against these big tech power players. neil: hitha, i was thinking of the apple system with the apps. i have apps when my sons were two and three years old. i have no idea. i still pay for them. they stick around. it s on me. i didn t cancel them. maybe i ll take the grandchildren. i have no idea. you can t get rid of these things. i m wondering, this is bigger than amazon, bigger than a lot of these companies that sort of
have reached a deal to merge, so this ends months of lawsuits regarding antitrust lawsuits. the two would be combined into a new yet to be named company. up next, growing calls for action after a florida mother was shot by her neighbor, what the victim s family is saying as the suspect remains free. t remae (vo) with verizon, you can now get a private 5g network.
Tempur Sealy International agreed to acquire Mattress Firm Group with plans to finalize the $40 billion deal in the second half of 2024. The acquisition does not appear to raise significant antitrust issues. A challenge to this transaction by the FTC may be a vertical bridge too far.