Big Tech on Notice as Trump Antitrust Picks Arrive at FTC

The Federal Trade Commission’s new slate of leaders is being told by lawmakers and advocates to pay close attention to complaints that technology titans such as Alphabet Inc.'s Google are abusing their dominance.

But formal investigations and enforcement activity on that question could test the boundaries of the law, analysts told Bloomberg Law.

“On the whole, the environment is certainly more sympathetic toward calls for intervention, but there will still be the question of how do you carry this out in an actual antitrust case,” William Kovacic, an antitrust law professor at George Washington University and former FTC chairman in ...