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WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission is investigating one of the country’s largest anesthesiology providers, U.S. Anesthesia Partners, over whether it has amassed too much power in some regional markets through acquisitions, according to people familiar with the matter.USAP has 4,500 anesthesia providers in nine states, including Texas, Colorado and Florida. The company, founded in 2012 by private-equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, has grown by acquiring smaller anesthesiology groups and rolling them up…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom successfully quashed a recall attempt last year in California. Asked if he's getting ready for a presidential run, Newsom insisted that was not the case.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesA new California law is being heralded as the first in the country since the reversal of federal abortion protections under Roe v. Wade to explicitly protect digital information from being used by out-of-state investigators for procedures that are lawful in California."This first-in-the-nation law helps shield …

The probe will focus on so-called "hyperscalers" like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which let businesses access computing power and data storage from remote servers.Chesnot | Getty ImagesBritish media regulator Ofcom is investigating Amazon, Microsoft and Google's tight grip on the cloud computing industry.In the coming weeks, the watchdog will launch a study to examine the position of firms offering public cloud infrastructure and whether they pose any barriers to competition.Its probe, announced Thursday,…

Ofcom, the broadcasting and telecoms regulator in the UK, is launching a probe to look into the cloud services tech giants offer in the coming weeks to ensure that there's healthy competition in the space. Further, the regulator has revealed that it will examine messaging and video calling services, as well as smart and connected devices in the near future. For its cloud investigation, Ofcom's market study will focus on the biggest cloud providers in the region, namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google.  The…

Google suffered one of its biggest setbacks when a top European court upheld a ruling that it broke competition rules and fined it a record 4.1 billion euros, in a move that may encourage other regulators to ratchet up pressure on the US giant. The unit of US tech giant Alphabet had challenged an EU antitrust ruling, but the decision was broadly upheld by Europe's General Court, with the fine trimmed modestly to 4.125 billion euros ($4.13 billion) from 4.34 billion euros.Read Also Even with the reduction, it was still a…

Paytm has reportedly denied anything new being investigated in the recent search by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the company's premises on Wednesday. As per a report, a Paytm spokesperson clarified that the federal agency has only sought information linked to the ongoing probes on certain merchants in recent search operation. It was reported earlier in the day that ED has conducted searches on certain premises of One 97 Communications's Paytm and payment solutions provider PayU. The federal agency also investigated…

Paytm has reportedly denied anything new being investigated in the recent search by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the company's premises on Wednesday. As per a report, a Paytm spokesperson clarified that the federal agency has only sought information linked to the ongoing probes on certain merchants in recent search operation. It was reported earlier in the day that ED has conducted searches on certain premises of One 97 Communications's Paytm and payment solutions provider PayU. The federal agency also investigated…

Reconstructing ancient climates is murky business. Cores of sediment or ice contain records of temperatures that date back hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, but typically only near Earth’s surface or in the ocean. Now, by measuring rare oxygen isotopes, a team of geochemists has developed a way to deduce long-ago global temperatures 10 kilometers up in the atmosphere, creating, in effect, a paleo–weather balloon. The technique will help scientists study past…

The founder and CEO of Risevest, a Nigeria-based investment app, has stepped down to allow the startup investigate allegations of sexual impropriety against him, the company said. The firm said in a statement on Tuesday that its investors had recommended the chief executive of the company, Eke Urum, leave his post for investigations to go forward and he had agreed. A team led by Tomi Davies of TVC Labs will probe the complaints within six weeks, and the findings will be made known within two weeks. “In light of…

Former President Donald Trump's political action committee, Save America, paid nearly $1 million to civil and criminal defense attorneys in July alone as investigations into him and the Trump Organization heated up, a new Federal Elections Commission filing by the PAC reveals.And Trump's legal bills could rise even more this month and into the future on the heels of an FBI raid of his residence at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, as part of a criminal investigation into his removal of presidential documents from the…