Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, adding to legal troubles that could reshape… Read More »Google Is Illegally Monopolizing Online Advertising Tech, Judge Rules
The semiconductor industry has lobbied two presidential administrations to go easy with restrictions on selling cutting-edge computer chips to China. Jensen Huang, the chief executive… Read More »U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei
The Federal Trade Commission sued Uber on Monday, claiming it used “deceptive billing and cancellation practices” to support Uber One, its premium subscription service. The… Read More »FTC Sues Uber Over Billing for Its Uber One Subscription Service
Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, said on Tuesday that he would spend less time in Washington working for President Trump after the automaker reported a… Read More »Musk Says He Will Keep Pushing for Lower Tariffs as Tesla Profits Drop 71%
The flashy online announcement called it “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World,” a chance to have “an intimate private dinner” with President Trump at… Read More »Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors of His Memecoin
On Friday, amid a tariff-induced frenzy that drove hordes of consumers to panic-buy iPhones, President Trump announced a tariff exemption on electronics like smartphones and… Read More »Trump Tariffs Could Raise iPhone Prices, But Affordable Options Remain
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday accused Meta of creating a monopoly that squelched competition by buying start-ups that stood in its way, kicking off… Read More »U.S. Argues Meta Built a Social Media Monopoly
The Trump administration isn’t letting up on the tech giants. On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission will face off with Meta in court over claims… Read More »What to Know About Trump’s Antitrust Efforts Against Tech Giants
After more than a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a rule late Friday that spared smartphones,… Read More »Trump Administration Live Updates: Smartphones and Computers Get Reprieve From New U.S. Tariffs on China
At the end of a three-hour hearing last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, sided with a group of Republicans in a hotly contested… Read More »How the Crypto Industry’s Political Spending Is Paying Off
For months, Nintendo, the maker of famed video game series like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, had expected the morning of April 2 to… Read More »Nintendo Switch Game Console Release Is Whipsawed by Tariff Threats
Two days after a helicopter collided with a passenger jet in Washington in January, killing 67 people, Jo Ellis woke up to a flurry of… Read More »Pilot Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Matt Wallace, X Influencer
Privacy advocates say that all this data could enable the government to punish its political opponents by weaponizing information about an individual’s personal life (bankruptcies,… Read More »How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
The Trump administration is disbanding a unit in the Justice Department that was responsible for investigating cryptocurrency crimes, criticizing the Biden administration as too aggressive… Read More »Justice Dept. Disbands Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit
President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on imported vehicles, which went into effect last week, are already sending tremors through the auto industry, prompting companies to… Read More »Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Reducing Car Imports and Idling Factories
The biggest technology companies and their chief executives donated millions to President Trump’s inauguration, hosted black-tie parties and dinners in his honor, and allowed him… Read More »Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has Yet to Pay Off.
Last Wednesday, the Trump administration believed it had a plan to save TikTok. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, along with some of its U.S. investors and… Read More »How Trump’s TikTok Negotiations Were Upended by China and Tariffs
On a recent Thursday, journalists cramming into the White House press briefing room saw an unfamiliar face in a rotating seat designated for new media.… Read More »How X Is Benefiting as Musk Advises Trump
For the last several months, Ken Harvey has been cultivating a budding side business for his Honda and Mazda dealerships in Northern California: selling used… Read More »Used Tesla Market Heats Up as Owners Sell to Protest Elon Musk
Soon after the new administration arrived, things began to go missing from the White House website. They weren’t just the partisan policy platforms that typically… Read More »The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It
This year was supposed to be a banner moment for digital commerce companies. Klarna, the digital payments giant, was gearing up for an initial public… Read More »How Tariffs Are Hitting Digital Commerce Companies
When President Trump announced sweeping tariffs this week, some of the biggest tech companies had obvious reasons for worry. Apple, Dell, Oracle — which rely… Read More »Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Rattling Even Meta
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadio This week, President Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that are roiling… Read More »Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI’s ‘Blip’ + Tinder’s Flirt-Off
European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against Elon Musk’s social media platform X for breaking a landmark law to combat illicit content and disinformation,… Read More »E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
Ford Motor said on Thursday that it was lowering prices on most of its vehicles to the same levels it charges employees in a bid… Read More »Ford Offers Discounts on Cars and Trucks as Auto Tariffs Kick In
Taiwan, the center of the global supply chain for computer chips, woke up on Thursday to the news that President Trump had put new 32… Read More »Trump’s Tariffs Don’t Apply to Chips, but Taiwan Remains Wary
Tariffs on imported vehicles took effect Thursday, a policy that President Trump said would spur investments and jobs in the United States but that analysts… Read More »Auto Tariffs Take Effect, Putting Pressure on New Car Prices
President Trump says he is outraged by the fact that the United States imports more goods than it sends to the rest of the world.… Read More »To Counter Trump’s Tariffs on Goods, Countries May Hit Back at US Services
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, has lobbied President Trump and his aides to resolve a federal antitrust lawsuit against his company that is… Read More »Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Trump to Settle Antitrust Suit Against Meta
When President Trump first pushed tariffs on China in 2018, Apple began moving more production of iPads and AirPods to Vietnam and iPhones to India.… Read More »Trump’s New Tariffs Test Apple’s Global Supply Chain