{"id":986178,"date":"2026-01-19T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986178"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:44:10","slug":"us-ftc-to-scrutinise-big-techs-talent-acquisition-deals-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/us-ftc-to-scrutinise-big-techs-talent-acquisition-deals-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US FTC to scrutinise Big Tech&#8217;s talent acquisition deals: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing \u200dbig tech firms that hire employees of a startup instead of \u2060buying the companies outright, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing the agency&#8217;s Chairman Andrew Ferguson. <\/p>\n<p>The growing practice, in which big \u200ctech firms \u200cpay for startups&#8217; technology and talent without buying the company, is seen \u200cas a way to sidestep antitrust review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing \u200dbig tech firms that hire employees of a startup instead of \u2060buying the companies outright, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing the agency&#8217;s Chairman Andrew Ferguson. The growing practice, in which big \u200ctech firms \u200cpay for startups&#8217; technology and talent without buying the company, is seen \u200cas a way to sidestep antitrust review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}