Dec 31, 2024

Will 2025 be the year of antitrust?

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Companies that will be grappling with antitrust law this upcoming year include Google, Facebook and Amazon. We dig in.

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Hackers have struck the Treasury Department

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

Hackers thought to have links to China have successfully targeted the U.S. Treasury Department. Treasury says it was notified of a “major” incident on Dec. 8. This event comes after another recent China-affiliated hack on telecom networks.

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Workers in 21 states to get wage bumps

by Nova Safo

With the new year will come pay increases for more than 9 million people, who live in states where the minimum wage goes up tomorrow. Many of these are automatic, indexed to inflation, but some are the result of new laws.

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Antitrust cases to keep an eye on in 2025

by David Brancaccio and Meredith Garretson

Dec 31, 2024

Google, Facebook and Amazon will all be focuses of antitrust cases in the year ahead, but a Trump administration will take a different approach to antitrust enforcement than Biden's has.

Facebook owner Meta is among the companies that will be facing an antitrust case in the year ahead over its acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp.

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