US Congressional Antitrust Hearing With Big Tech Ceos Postponed

Advertisement A highly anticipated antitrust hearing including top executives of four Big Tech firms, originally set for Monday, has been postponed. A notice … Continue reading US Congressional Antitrust Hearing With Big Tech Ceos Postponed

By Nebianet Usaini

Updated July 24, 2020

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on December 10, 2019 shows the Microsoft logo displayed during a presentation at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on February 24, 2019, and a file photo taken on September 28, 2011 of the Amazon logo seen on a podium during a press conference in New York. Amazon is alleging that US President Donald Trump abused the power of his office to deny the company a massive military cloud computing contract, court documents released on December 9, 2019showed. The technology giant is challenging the awarding of a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft, alleging “unmistakable bias” in the process. GABRIEL BOUYS, Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP

The hearing is titled “Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.”

A highly anticipated antitrust hearing including top executives of four Big Tech firms, originally set for Monday, has been postponed.

A notice filed by the House Judiciary Committee set no new date for the hearing titled “Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.”

The hearing would have conflicted with the memorial service for the late representative and civil rights leader John Lewis, to lie in state in the US Capitol.

-AFP