Bytes: Week in Review — Meta's antitrust trial, Nvidia's export restraint, and Jack Dorsey's hot take on IP law
Marketplace Tech
American Public Media
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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NVIDIA gets caught up in the trade war, the titans of Twitter/X debate intellectual property law — and the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Meta kicks off in court.
We're digging into all of it on today's Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, about what we learned in week one of Meta's monopoly trial.
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| 1:01.0 | The meta-monopoly case goes to trial. From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 1:07.7 | I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. |
| 1:24.9 | It's been a big week for antitrust. The federal judge on Thursday ruled Google's advertising business is a monopoly. This is the second judgment against Google after |
| 1:30.1 | its search business was ruled a monopoly last year. Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission case |
| 1:35.8 | against Meta kicked off in court. The FTC alleges the social media giants acquisitions |
| 1:41.4 | of Instagram and WhatsApp constitute illegal anti-competitive behavior. |
| 1:47.4 | It's a case that's been in the works since the first Trump administration. |
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