Eva Dou

Technology Policy Reporter
Eva Dou is a Washington-based reporter covering technology policy for the Washington Post. A Detroit native who studied journalism at the University of Missouri, she reported on business and politics in Asia for a decade. She is the author of the forthcoming book House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company.
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TikTok faces skeptical judges in court fight over looming national ban

Even as both the Harris and Trump presidential campaigns have leaned heavily into TikTok to reach younger voters, the weeks are ticking down before the wildly popular app is banned in the United States under a new law that has drawn bipartisan backing.

September 16, 2024
TikTok's headquarters in Culver City, Calif.

News publishers in spotlight at Google’s latest monopoly trial

Federal prosecutors are seeking a divestment of Google’s multibillion-dollar online advertising business, saying its monopoly power harms advertisers and publishers.

September 9, 2024
A staffer with the Paul, Weiss legal firm wheels boxes of documents into the Albert V. Bryan US Courthouse at the start of a Department of Justice antitrust trial against Google over its advertisng business in Alexandria, Va. on Monday.

Google is a monopoly and judges want to fix that. Outcomes are hard to predict.

The business outcomes of the AT&T and Microsoft cases bode poorly for the internet giant if a judge calls for stern measures up to and including a breakup.

September 7, 2024
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, right, testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in 2018. Activist Ian Madrigal, back, dressed as the Monopoly Man, Rich Uncle Pennybags from the classic board game Monopoly, to protest the company’s economic power.

Google’s punishment for illegal search monopoly to be determined next summer

Federal judge Amit P. Mehta sets the courtroom schedule for the remedy phase of the Justice Department’s landmark case against the internet giant, having ruled last month that it illegally acts as a monopoly in internet search.

September 6, 2024

Lawmakers call for crackdown on DJI drone clones as ban looms

The Chinese drone giant struck a unique agreement with a U.S. firm ahead of a potential ban. Lawmakers claim it’s a loophole and a security risk.

August 27, 2024
A DJI drone takes flight at a fire training center in Fort Collins, Colo., in 2023. DJI, a Chinese company, sold 77 percent of drones in the United States in 2020, the most recent year for which sales data is available.

Harris and Trump gear up for grassroots campaigning this week

Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.

August 25, 2024

Why is rent so high? The Justice Department blames a tech firm’s algorithm.

An antitrust lawsuit filed against software vendor RealPage alleges widespread collusion among landlords who share rental data that trains pricing algorithms.

August 23, 2024
(Sarah Silbiger/Reuters)

Mike Lynch, prominent British tech entrepreneur, dies at 59

The co-founder of Autonomy, once one of Britain’s largest software companies, died in a boating accident off the coast of Sicily.

August 22, 2024
Mike Lynch in 2011.

Google’s foes on both coasts consider what it takes to crack a monopolist

After a landmark court decision deemed Google an illegal monopoly, its foes are crafting the legal case for something unthinkable until recently: the internet giant’s breakup.

August 15, 2024
Google, deemed an illegal monopoly earlier this month for how it promotes its search function, faces another trial soon over what measures are needed to promote competition, including a possible breakup of the company.

Harris faces N.C. voters skeptical of a promised tech boom

Biden’s hefty infrastructure investments may come too late to move the needle for Harris in swing states like North Carolina.

August 14, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in Fayetteville, N.C., last month, her seventh visit to the state this year. She is set to speak in Raleigh on Friday.