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...WeWork director David Tolley will take over as interim CEO. Deutsche Bank has hired Martin Blanquart as managing director to lead Europe, Middle East and Africa technology....
...Former FTC chair William Kovacic said it was set to be the “landmark battle” that will define the administration’s “commitment to bring a tougher approach to merger control and to Big Tech in particular”...
...Government and agency ethics panels would have “examined these issues for Khan extensively when she was nominated”, said William Kovacic, a former FTC chair....
...David Cicilline, a congressman who chairs the House antitrust subcommittee investigating the tech sector, said Uber’s takeover attempt “marks a new low in pandemic profiteering”....
...Additional reporting by David Crow and Barney Jopson...
...Kovacic says that this process is “so far not going as smoothly as planned”....
...He added that William Kovacic, who took over as FTC chairman in March, was bent on an ”activist enforcement agenda” where consumers faced harm....
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