Epic Games Inc., a software developer known for its popular Fortnite video game franchise and landmark antitrust disputes with Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.‘s Google, and others, has brought on longtime technology industry attorney Reginald “Reggie” Davis as its new general counsel.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a notice to appeal a November 2025

This drive to break up some of the largest US companies, which began during the first Trump administration and expanded under Joe Biden, marked the biggest challenge in decades to the tech industry’s alleged anti-competitive behaviour.

Big tech companies are recruiting key talent from startups through collaborations or partnerships, but the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has put the brakes on this talent acquisition method. The FTC views such approaches—poaching talent without formal mergers and acquisitions (M&A)—as potential loopholes to avoid antitrust investigations.

Jan 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing big tech firms that hire employees of a startup instead of buying the companies outright, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing the agency's Chairman Andrew Ferguson.

A staff report released Friday by the FTC suggested partnerships between OpenAI and Microsoft, and Amazon and Anthropic, raise antitrust concerns.

Big Tech is different because it breaks the systems that once corrected excessive power. It sits between businesses and customers, workers and paychecks, speakers and audiences. It decides who gets seen, who gets paid — and who gets pushed aside. Companies no longer compete only on price or quality. They compete for permission.