Washington takes on search, phones and the lab that wrote its own rules.

Facebook's Libra. Congress should neither strangle Libra in the crib nor wave it through; the sensible test is whether Facebook will submit to the rules that already bind everyone else who handles other people's money. Read more on Coin flip ›

Microsoft and OpenAI. Microsoft's $1bn bet on OpenAI is less a punt on thinking machines than a prepaid order for its own cloud, and that makes it a shrewd one Read more on Billion-dollar brain ›

Transatlantic data. Europe's court was right that American surveillance law fails its tests, and a third patched-up deal would only schedule a third defeat; Washington should change the law. Read more on Shield of dreams ›

America v Google. The Justice Department's case against Google is narrower than its critics fear and better aimed than its fans realise, and its target should be the price of the default. Read more on Feeling lucky ›

Salesforce and Slack. Regulators should wave through Salesforce's $27.7bn purchase of Slack, which adds a serious rival to Microsoft; the price is a matter for Salesforce's shareholders. Read more on Chat room at the top ›

Gitanjali Rao. The interesting thing about TIME's first Kid of the Year is not her gadgets but the method behind them, which any adult with a budget could copy and few do. Read more on Lead role ›

America v Facebook. The government has a fair case that Facebook bought a rival it feared, but a breakup is the wrong cure and the regulator's own clearance of the deals is the weakest part of its case. Read more on Face value ›

Platform power. Twitter and Facebook were within their rights to cut off Donald Trump, but a power this large needs published rules and an appeal, not a decision made on a Friday evening Read more on Unfollowed ›

Amazon's succession. Jeff Bezos has picked the man who built the firm's profits, and the choice says more about where Amazon earns its money than about who will run it. Read more on Next-day delivery ›

Young retail traders. The GameStop frenzy has been told as a morality play about the young and the reckless, but the evidence says that they are neither a mob nor a crowd of sages, and that regulators should look at the app before the user. Read more on Stonks go up, and down ›

Australia v Facebook. Australia was right that platforms hold too much power over news, but a law that prices links is a clumsy tool, and the countries now eyeing it should copy the leverage, not the mechanism Read more on Breaking news ›

Privacy and power. Apple's tracking prompt is good for users and better for Apple, so regulators should insist that the firm lives under the same rule it imposes on everyone else Read more on Please don't ask ›

Lina Khan at the FTC. Lina Khan is right that antitrust has grown too fond of low prices, but she will do more for competition by winning cases under the law as it stands than by trying to rewrite it. Read more on Paradox lost ›

Epic v Apple. Judge Gonzalez Rogers was right to clear Apple of monopoly and right to let developers point customers elsewhere; the second ruling does more for competition than the first would have. Read more on Steering committee ›

The Digital Markets Act. Europe's new rulebook for tech gatekeepers is right to demand choice, but it should stop short of dictating how rival products are built. Read more on Gate expectations ›

Broadcom and VMware. Broadcom's $61bn price for VMware is hard to earn back without raising bills, so regulators should ask whether customers can walk away. Read more on Virtually mine ›

Twitter and Elon Musk. Mr Musk has paid full price for a loss-making firm whose customers can leave at will, and no change of ownership will fix that. Read more on Bird in hand ›

America v Microsoft. The FTC is right to worry about a console maker hoarding games, but a binding promise to share Call of Duty is a better remedy than a ban on the deal. Read more on Level playing field ›

America v Google, again. The Justice Department is right that Google should not run both the auction and the biggest bidders in it, and a break-up of the ad exchange is the remedy to press. Read more on Bidding farewell ›

Meta's year of efficiency. Investors have rewarded Meta for spending less, which is sensible, but efficiency is a means and the firm has yet to say what it is for. Read more on Lean in ›

America v Amazon. The government's case against Amazon is strongest where it targets the penalty for cheap prices elsewhere, and weakest where it treats a popular service as a crime. Read more on Prime suspect ›

OpenAI's governance. OpenAI's board did exactly what it was built to do and lost within five days; the lab should stop pretending a charity can steer it and let competition and the law do the job Read more on Return of the king ›

Epic v Google. A jury has found that Google rigged Android's app market, and the right remedy is more competition for the Play Store, not a court-drawn design for the phone. Read more on Play the field ›

Microsoft's market value. Investors have priced Microsoft as the winner of the AI race, yet the prize still depends on customers paying $30 a month for a chatbot. Read more on Soft power ›

Acqui-hires and merger review. Microsoft's hiring of Inflection's leaders and staff should be reviewed as the merger it resembles, because a deal that moves a company's people but not its shares is still a deal Read more on Hire power ›

America v Apple. The Justice Department's suit is strongest where Apple's gatekeeping protects its services profits, and it should resist the temptation to ask a court to design the iPhone. Read more on An Apple a day ›

Alphabet's capital return. Alphabet's first dividend says less about a maturing firm than about a cash pile that outgrew its owner's ideas for it. Read more on Paying attention ›

Alexandr Wang. Scale AI's founder built a billion-dollar firm on the unglamorous fact that machine intelligence needs human labour, and its next test is whether that remains true. Read more on Labour of data ›

The CrowdStrike outage. The CrowdStrike outage shows that firms with deep access to everyone's computers should be treated as infrastructure, with staged updates and liability to match, rather than as software vendors who can disclaim everything Read more on Blue screen of debt ›

Teen spending. Piper Sandler's teen survey shows a generation whose tastes are remarkably stable, and investors who read every wobble in it as a trend should be more sceptical of the headline numbers. Read more on Brand loyalty card ›

Finfluencers. Regulators are right to pursue finfluencers, but the better target is the firm that pays them, because the young investor's trust is real and will outlast any single prosecution. Read more on Follow the leader ›

America v Google. Judge Mehta was right to leave Google its browser and its phone software, and America should now spend its energy on making the data-sharing order work rather than on an appeal for a break-up. Read more on Spare the Chrome ›