Big Tech: U.S. antitrust regulators published guidelines on Wednesday on the kinds of mergers and acquisitions they object to, reaffirming the skepticism with which President Joe Biden s administration has approached many deals, especially in the technology sector.
The U.S. Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have mounted an unprecedented number of legal challenges to mergers since Biden came to office in 2021.
U.S. antitrust regulators published guidelines on Wednesday on the kinds of mergers and acquisitions they object to, reaffirming the skepticism with which President Joe Biden s administration has approached many deals, especially in the technology sector.
New draft guidelines
released by U.S. antitrust enforcers on Wednesday lay the
groundwork for tougher scrutiny of future deals by Big Tech
companies like Amazon.com and Alphabet s Google
. .