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President Donald Trump fired the only two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission, handing the remaining Republican commissioners exclusive control over the agency that oversees antitrust and consumer protection laws and serves as the U.S. government’s primary regulator of the tech industry. FTC  Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter announced their dismissals on the social media site X, with both calling their firings illegal.

Crown Castle agreed to sell its fiber segment for $8.5 billion following a more than year-long strategic review of the business. The communications infrastructure owner and operator said it plans to sell the small cells part of the business to EQT Active Core Infrastructure, and the fiber solutions segment to Zayo Group Holdings. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2026. Crown Castle said it plans to use the cash proceeds to repay existing debt and fund anticipated share repurchases. Crown Castle aims to focus on its U.S. tower operations.

The independent inquiry group appointed for this market investigation has found that a number of markets relating to browsers on mobile devices are not working well for consumers and businesses, which is holding back innovation and could be limiting growth in the UK. Mobile browsers are apps which provide the primary gateway for consumers to access the web on their mobile devices, and hence for businesses to reach them with their content and products.

The broadband construction firm Trueline Infrastructure Solutions was supposed to bring competition to the market, but instead the company has gone out of business. Trueline sent an email to its approximately 300 employees, terminating their employment immediately. The email said, “As many of you are aware, Trueline has been facing unprecedented changes in the market, compounded by increasing competitive pressures.

The Federal Trade Commission launched a public inquiry to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users’ access to services based on the content of their speech or affiliations, and how this conduct may have violated the law. Censorship by technology platforms is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal. Tech firms can employ confusing or unpredictable internal procedures that cut users off, sometimes with no ability appeal the decision.

Americans’ views of two prominent tech executives – Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg – tilt more negative than positive. Musk is a deeply polarizing figure, with Republicans largely viewing him favorably and Democrats largely unfavorably. By contrast, views of Zuckerberg are less polarized, with majorities in both parties viewing him unfavorably. Just over half of U.S. adults (54%) say they have an unfavorable view of Musk, including 36 percent who have a very unfavorable opinion of him.

For years, as the social-media and startup world exploded, the tech industry was known for the outspokenness of its employees — largely liberal-skewing young technologists on the West Coast, who pushed their companies hard to build policies that then became models for a new kind of American workplace. This is changing faster than anyone expected.

Elon Musk has offered to buy the operating assets of OpenAI for $97.4 billion, in a move that could turn the burgeoning AI industry on its head. Musk is puttin

As Elon Musk digs into the federal bureaucracy in his crusade to slash government spending, he has a tool that no aspiring cost-cutter has had before: his own giant social media platform to debate, shame and bludgeon anyone who stands in his way.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sought to reassure his workforce that the social media company’s values haven’t changed despite a slew of policy shifts that included ending its diversity and fact-checking programs. In a companywide meeting, Zuckerberg told employees that 2025 would be a “big year for resetting our relationship with governments around the world.” But he specified that Meta would not forsake its values. The message appeared to be an attempt to reassure employees after dramatic ch