FTC and Justice's Antitrust Division Will Continue Focus on Tech Sector, Officials Say

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The FTC and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division will continue to devote significant resourcesnto examining competition issues in the technology sector, officials from both agencies said Tuesdaynduring a Practising Law Institute seminar. FTC Chairman Edith Ramirez has been “very explicit”nabout her expectation that her agency will continue to focus on the high-tech sector, as well as the healthcarenand energy markets, said Richard Feinstein, director of the FTC Competition Bureau. Those are areasnwhere the agency has devoted most of its resources over the last decade, and no one should “expectnthat to change in the near term,” he said.