Dave Michaels is a financial and white-collar legal/enforcement reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He specializes in covering crypto law, securities, antitrust, and white-collar crime. His work has been featured in various publications including The Australian, LiveMint, and Fox Business Network.
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Dave Michaels' coverage largely focuses on legal policy regulation and government announcements, with a significant emphasis on SEC investigations and FTC probes. His themes mainly revolve around legal & compliance, finance, and technology.
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By: Dave Michaels, Asa Fitch
The Justice Department's probe of the chip company highlights interest in being more aggressive than in years past.
By: Dave Michaels, Jan Wolfe
Antitrust enforcers search for tough remedies to counteract alleged monopoly abuses
By: Dave Michaels
Several high-stakes cases, including two involving Google, could determine whether that dormant period comes to an end. The Justice Department is expected to submit a filing Tuesday that presents a federal court with a range of potential options—from conduct restrictions to a breakup—aimed at ending what a judge said was Google’s unlawful monopoly in search. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in August found that Google ingrained its monopoly by paying billions of dollars to operators of web browsers and phone manufacturers to be their default search engine.
By: Dave Michaels
The progressive experiment in policing mergers and dominant companies is likely to end if Donald Trump wins.
A federal court sides with FTC, which argued that merger would raise prices for shoppers of luxury handbags
By: Dave Michaels, Vicky Ge Huang, Caitlin Ostroff
Bitcoin prices hit $80,000 for the first time on Sunday. The president-elect has vowed to ease the regulatory burden on crypto and create a reserve to hold the nation's bitcoin supply.
The Biden administration’s top antitrust officials plan to take more shots at the tech industry before leaving office, in a race to cap four years of aggressive enforcement.
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration's top antitrust officials plan to take more shots at the tech industry before leaving office, in a race to cap four years of aggressive enforcement.
By: Dave Michaels
The Justice Department on Wednesday said Google should have to sell off its popular Chrome browser as part of a court-ordered fix to its monopolization of the online search market. The request follows the government’s victory this year in an antitrust case against Google and is likely to kick off a heightened legal fight with wide-reaching implications for the tech giant’s core business. Government lawyers said competition can only be restored if Google separates its search engine from products it has built to access the internet, such as Chrome and its Android mobile operating system.
By: Dave Michaels, Miles Kruppa
A spinoff would be a major blow to Google following its loss in the antitrust trial.
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