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OneTrust announced it has completed the acquisition of ethics and compliance leader Convercent. The Convercent technology, 150 employees, 750 customers, and global CONVERGE community will become core to the ethics and compliance offering. The acquisiti… Continue reading OneTrust acquires Convercent to bring ethics and compliance technology into a single platform
AT&T’s $86 billion merger with Time Warner will result in higher rates and competition issues, but thanks to lobbying and weakened antitrust oversight, government can’t do a damn thing about it. Continue reading US Courts Just Greenlit AT&T’s Anti-Competitive Ambition for Decades to Come
The settlement with Charter Spectrum is the largest consumer refund from an ISP in the US. Continue reading NY State Residents Will Get $62.5 Million In Settlement For Terrible Broadband
The bill would negate many of the competitive advantages AT&T is trying to get with its Time Warner takeover. Continue reading AT&T Is Terrified of California’s Proposed Net Neutrality Legislation
America’s weak regulatory system presents MERGER MANIA: A dystopian thriller about corporate dominance of the internet. Continue reading Comcast Wants to Buy Fox, and the Post-Net Neutrality Corporate Takeover of the Internet Begins
America’s antitrust rules have no good mechanism for dealing with what will happen when big telecom uses the end of net neutrality for uncompetitive practices. Continue reading AT&T’s Court Win Shows America’s Consumer Protection Standards Are Ridiculously Broken
AT&T’s win in court means a telecom conglomerate may soon own CNN, HBO, TBS, and a host of movie franchises. Continue reading The AT&T-Time Warner Merger and the End of Net Neutrality Are a Nightmare Combination for Consumers
All of the hyper-scale cloud providers love to tout their new customer acquisitions: Google talking about Spotify; Microsoft signing up various Adobe services for Azure; or AWS working with the likes of GE. That’s a sign of how competitive … Continue reading Time-Warner’s Turner opts for AWS as its preferred cloud provider
After lawmakers struck down ISP privacy protections earlier this year, new efforts are underway to help consumers win back control of their personal information from their service providers. Continue reading Erosion of ISP Privacy Rules Sparks New Anti-Snooping Efforts
The issue of First Amendment free speech protections is now front and center. Continue reading AT&T and Time Warner Execs Vow to Protect Press Freedom Under Trump