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Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence
April 22, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
Financial Crime
April 22, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
Data Privacy and Security
April 21, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Antitrust View More
April 23, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
The majority of Yelp’s claims in its monopolization lawsuit against Google will be allowed to go forward, a California federal judge ruled today.
April 23, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In Yelp's monopolization lawsuit against Google, a California federal judge granted Google's motion to dismiss claims that it unlawfully tied local search services to general search services. How... (more story)
April 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google has decided to “maintain our current approach to offering users third-party cookie choice in Chrome, and will not be rolling out a new standalone prompt for third-party cookies,” it said i... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google's partial loss in a government monopolization suit accusing it of anticompetitive practices in the digital advertising technology markets, along with the start of a remedy trial after the ... (more story)
April 22, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Trust and copyright infrastructure are needed to ensure intellectual property continues to work in the age of AI, said an official from the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization. Entering a heated deba... (more story)
April 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order against accessiBe Inc. for falsely claiming that the plug-in accessWidget can make any website compliant with Web Content Access... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 23, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Bharat Forge has received conditional approval to acquire American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings' Indian subsidiary, AAM India Manufacturing, a key player in commercial-vehicle axles. The Competition Commissio... (more story)
April 22, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Kingspan has seen EU judges reject a legal challenge over information held by the European Commission in its review of an abandoned merger with Trimo. The lower-tier General Court rejected the appeal as inadmi... (more story)
April 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Kingspan has failed to persuade EU judges to intervene in a dispute over access to information in the European Commission probe of its abandoned Trimo deal. The General Court ruled in an April 7 ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: More than 60 percent of global child sexual abuse webpages identified in 2024 were hosted in the EU, a new report by the Internet Watch Foundation shows. This has prompted fresh calls for member ... (more story)
April 22, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom delivered trial testimony today accusing Meta Platforms’ Chief Executive and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of “starving” Instagram of vital resources and decision-making b... (more story)
April 22, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK companies providing digital identity services have voiced concern over rivalry from a government digital wallet program that could “stifle innovation” and “limit consumer choice.” A coalition of association... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US Central District of California judge dismissed induced and contributory infringement claims by toymaker Flying Heliball against Zero Cloud One Intelligent Technology, writing that the plaint... (more story)
April 22, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
A US judge in the Central District of California yesterday dismissed Flying Heliball’s claims of contributory and induced patent infringement against toymaker Zero Cloud One Intelligent Technology for a second... (more story)
April 22, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A US declaratory judgment lawsuit purportedly prompted by VirtaMove Corp. complaints against International Business Machine Corp., Google and others over their use of open-source containerization technology al... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission charged Ramil Palafox with orchestrating a fraud scheme that raised approximately $198 million from investors worldwide and misappropriated more than $57... (more story)
April 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Challenges faced by UK law enforcement in detecting, investigating and prosecuting fraud offenses are to come under a wide-ranging review led by lawyer Jonathan Fisher in the first independent ex... (more story)
April 22, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office is set to announce a major change to its guidance, which will see companies escape prosecution for serious wrongdoing if they self-report it. Under guidance to be published on Thu... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 22, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
The UK’s Financial Reporting Council has announced a review of its processes for publicly disclosing the opening of investigations into auditors suspected of breaching standards. The FRC is reviewing its “end-... (more story)
April 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK financial firms have been told that new rules on “step-in risk” will enter into force in January 2026. Step-in risk is the risk that a bank provides financial support to an unconsolidated enti... (more story)
April 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Representative Maxine Waters, a Democrat from California who sits on the House Financial Services Committee, said the “Trump Administration’s approval of the Capital One-Discover merger will c... (more story)
Trade View More
April 22, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today rejected the US Commerce Department’s 2019 calculation of a dumping rate for a Canadian manufacturer of wind towers.
April 22, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that the US Commerce Department erred in its 2019 dumping calculation on wind towers from Canada. US Circuit Judges Sharon Prost, Richard... (more story)
April 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary : The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Iranian liquified petroleum gas (LPG) magnate Seyed Asadoollah Emamjomeh and his corporate network, which is collectively... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Danube CCS Ventures, a Hungarian special purpose limited liability company, has filed an appeal at the EU's General Court, challenging a Swedish plan to support projects removing biogenic CO2 emi... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway has secured approval by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for its plan to fund a program to develop a wind farm in Utsira Nord, located in the North Sea. The farm will raise renewable energy... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU General Block Exemption Regulation needs to be simplified, according to comments from several member states seen by MLex. The legal text, which sets out some conditions to exempt state aid from the Euro... (more story)
Energy View More
April 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Three environmental groups opposing Constellation Energy's proposed acquisition of Calpine Corporation — Public Citizen, PennFuture, and Clean Air Council — say that they "do not object" to the U... (more story)
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine's first deputy prime minister and minister of economy, said in a statement on X that Ukrainian officials have signed a memorandum of intent that paves the way toward an ... (more story)
April 17, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Jean Comte
Europe
EU companies caught under the scope of the bloc’s due diligence law could see reduced supply chain obligations and potential fines capped at 5 percent of their net global turnover, according to a Polish propos... (more story)
Technology View More
April 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A legal challenge by Google Ireland against the European Commission over the Digital Services Act's supervisory fee has been issued by the EU General Court. The search engine, which has been desi... (more story)
April 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: New leasing arrangements for Global Titles are now banned in the UK, the telecom regulator Ofcom announced today in a new effort to tackle exploitation of mobile networks by criminals. Global Tit... (more story)
April 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The digital identity scheme created by the UK government should not compete with the private sector, a group of associations urged today in a letter to tech minister Peter Kyle. The group advocat... (more story)