US Antitrust enforcers focus on Big Tech: Google is confronted with search and AD tech cases, Meta risks losing Instagram and WhatsApp, Amazon and Apple confront long tests, while Microsoft and Nvidia stay under probe without formal lawsuits.
An American lawsuit in which Google from Alphabet was ordered on Tuesday to share search data with competitors is just one of the most important efforts of American antitrust enforcers to challenge large technology companies about their dominance
Here are the status of the American antitrust cases or probes against some of the world’s most valuable companies: Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platforms, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia.
The Internetjuggernaut fights against the US Department of Justice and stands enforcers on two fronts. In one case, a judge in Washington ruled that Tgoogle has already hired a former Obama officer to represent it in a professional process that could last for years. However, the judge ruled that Google did not have to sell its popular Chrome -Browser and Android control system. Although Google probably gets a postponement of compliance with the pronunciation until the profession is over, the search landscape has already started to shift, where Google is preventively releasing deals with device makers and wireless carriers, and Apple says it is planning to add search options that are fed by artificial intelligence. In the meantime, Google is preparing for a test in September in Alexandria, Virginia, to determine whether it should sell part of its online advertising technology to make room for newcomers in the field, where it turned out to have two illegal monopolies. Google has said it is appealing.
Meta
This year, the Facebook -Mother company was confronted with its own antitrust process on the bid of the American Federal Trade Commission to generate the acquisitions of Meta of appreciated assets Instagram and WhatsApp. The agency wanted to show Meta strategically emerging apps that saw it as potential Facebook rivals, partly through internal statements such as an e -mail from 2008 in which CEO Mark Zuckerberg said: “It is better to buy than to compete.” Meta has said that the earlier intentions of Zuckerberg are not relevant and the matter must fail because it depends on a made -up market for social media that leaves bytedance, YouTube from Alphabet and others.
The judge who supervises the case in Washington will probably not reign before the end of 2025.
Amazon
The online retail giant fights against the FTC and state enforcers in Seattle, where the Amazon agency has sued and accuses the use of anti-competitive tactics to maintain dominance between online superstores and market places. The FTC claimed Amazon.com, which has 1 billion items in its online superstore, used an algorithm that has increased prices that were paid by more than $ 1 billion. Amazon said that in 2019 it stopped the program using the program. Last year a judge largely rejected Amazon’s offer to reject the case. The test is planned for February 2027.
APPLE
The Ministry of Justice and a coalition of states continue the maker of the world’s most popular smartphone. They say that Apple booms the competition by limiting the makers of apps and devices of third parties-such as smart watches, digital portfolios and reporting services-to iPhone users. Apple’s offer to reject the case was rejected in June. Deadlines for both parties to exchange information in the case at the beginning of 2027, and no test date has yet been established.
Microsoft
In 2024, the FTC opened a probe to whether the software and cloud computing heavyweight are market power in productivity software abused by imposing punitive licensing conditions to prevent customers from moving their data to rival platforms. The FTC still has to submit a case.
Nvidia
The Ministry of Justice has started an investigation into the semiconductor company whose highly sought-after Chips Power Artificial Intelligence applications and the first company in the world made $ 4 trillion worth, the information reported last year. No lawsuit has been tightened.
Published on September 3, 2025
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