Ownership

The Federal Communications Commission has announced it’s waiving its rules limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed a ruling that Google must allow its ad technology to work with rival products and share more data with customers to weaken the company’s dominance in online marketing, effectively ensuring that the tech titan’s business will continue largely unscathed. Judge Leonie M. Brinkema found that Google broke the law to protect its control over technology that places ads on pages across the web.

We are facing the multi-trillion-dollar march of private artificial intelligence (AI) data centers into our economy, politics, ecosystem, and cultural life. Amid calls for blanket moratoria and investments in data centers in space, how can the public assert a controlling interest in the development and outcomes of this technology? This essay proposes developing municipally owned, small-scale data center capacity to support municipal services and public-interest AI.

Charter’s CFO Jessica Fischer is leaving the company on October 15 to become the founding CFO of a new Blackstone–Google joint venture called Crux AI, which will be focused on AI infrastructure. But still representing Charter, Fischer spoke at Citi's 2026 Global TMT Conference.

Michigan Broadband Services will acquire “substantially all assets” of the Educational Access Network from Northern Michigan University’s if the agreement between the organizations closes. MBS would receive licensed 2.5 GHz Educational Broadband Service spectrum covering portions of 41 counties, Nokia AirScale radio equipment deployed across more than 70 tower sites, licensed microwave facilities, and related network infrastructure. EAN has approximately 7,500 subscribers and generates about $2.5 million annually. MBU is a subsidiary of publicly traded MachTen.

I noticed an article that said that Optimum was in danger of being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE automatically issues a warning to any stock when the average share price over thirty days is below $1.00. This warning was given to Optimum on August 13, and the company has until February 13, 2027, to get the 30-day average stock price above $1.00 to remain listed on the exchange. The company’s stock has plummeted over the last year. A year ago, the stock was trading at $2.33 per share. Five years ago, the stock traded at more than $28 per share.

CONX, Charlie Ergen's special-purpose acquisition company, is taking a majority stake in MobileX, Peter Adderton's MVNO that runs on the Verizon mobile network, a recent Federal Communications Commission filing confirms.

The Federal Trade Commission, joined by five states, notified a court that the agency will file a stipulated order that resolves its litigation against Zillow and Redfin and restores competition in the online platforms that renters use to find apartments and property managers use to list rentals. The order eliminates the key term in a 2025 agreement betwee

The Department of Justice announced a $400 million settlement with TikTok, ByteDance, and affiliated entities (TikTok) resolving litigation concerning compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and its implementing regulations (COPPA). Under the settlement, TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and an additional $100 million upon entry of an order vacating a prior consent decree entered against TikTok’s predecessor, Musical.ly.

Charter Communications and Cox Communications have completed a $34.5 billion merger that creates the world's largest cable operator, with about 70 million homes and businesses passed and roughly 38 million customers across 45 US states.