Hatching a plan: The Tipline for 31 August 2018

We’ve got a trio of stories straight out of Washington, DC, following a busy Thursday in the nation’s capital. Top billing goes to Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, who has asked the Federal Trade Commission to re-examine Google’s potentially anticompetitive behaviour. We also have news on President Trump’s allies reportedly pushing for Makan Delrahim to take over as US Attorney General and Ottobock duking it out with the FTC about the relevant product market in which to analyse the effects of its merger with Freedom Innovations.