The government’s challenge to the blockbuster $85.4 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger got fresh oxygen Thursday as the Justice Department said it will appeal a federal judge’s approval of the merger.
Read moreApproving the $85 billion merger of AT&T and Time Warner, a federal judge found Tuesday that the government failed to show the deal would raise prices for consumers and harm competition.
Read more“There is no other way to say it,” AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in a companywide memo Friday, “AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake.”
Read moreNot quite overshadowed by the half-million that embattled Trump attorney Michael Cohen is said to have gotten from a Russian oligarch, consulting work Cohen did last year for the telecommunications giant AT&T has drawn questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Congress.
Read moreThe Department of Justice made its final push Monday to block the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger, asking a federal judge to either enjoin the merger or allow AT&T to buy only a portion of the content giant.
Read moreWith the fate of AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner in the hands of one federal judge, antitrust experts say the company’s arbitration offer could shape the outcome of the case.
Read moreThe government’s key expert witness in its antitrust lawsuit to block AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner had trouble Tuesday defending his analysis that the merger will raise consumer prices for pay-TV subscribers by $571 million by 2021.
Read moreAT&T’s chief executive Randall Stephenson rigorously defended his company’s proposed $85 billion merger with Time Warner on Thursday, calling the government’s argument that it would harm competition “absurd.”
Read moreTime Warner’s chief executive forcefully defended his company’s proposed $85 billion merger with AT&T on the witness stand Wednesday, arguing that the company will fall behind innovative competitors without it.
Read moreGovernment attorneys turned up the heat Monday on an economist who testified in support of AT&T’s proposed $85 billion buyout of Time Warner.
Read moreThe U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit to block the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger reached its apex Wednesday as its key expert witness testified the merger would cost consumers hundreds of millions annually.
Read moreBuilding its antitrust case over AT&T’s proposed buyout of Time Warner, government attorneys elicited testimony from one of the cable company’s own executives about benefits of a merger.
Read moreAT&T flipped the script on a Dish Network executive in the courtroom Tuesday, using statements from Dish chairman Charlie Ergen to undercut a key claim by Dish that AT&T’s merger with Time Warner will hurt it.
Read moreThe federal judge overseeing the government’s antitrust case to block the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger cautioned attorneys on both sides Monday, after it was revealed that a government witness received transcripts of opening arguments and prior witness testimony before he testified.
Read moreOpening arguments in the federal government’s case to block AT&T’s efforts to gobble up Time Warner have been postponed until Thursday.
Read moreA gambit to have the Ninth Circuit review en banc the Federal Trade Commission’s authority over telecommunications companies paid off in a major legal victory for the commission’s dispute with AT&T.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday rejected AT&T’s bid to force the Justice Department to release information the telecom giant says could shed light on whether the Trump administration is behind a government effort to block its merger with Time Warner.
Read moreThe Department of Justice on Monday filed an antitrust lawsuit against media giants AT&T and Time Warner in an attempt to block their proposed $85 billion merger.
Read moreTelecom giant AT&T and the federal agency that apparently regulates wide swaths of the U.S. economy returned to the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday, rehashing arguments in front of a wider panoply of judges.
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