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Antitrust, Technology
January 27, 2026 | Chris May
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
January 27, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 26, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Antitrust View More
January 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Kakao Mobility was indicted along with its CEO and two executives after prosecutors said the company abused its dominant position in the taxi app “general call” market through a call-blocking sch... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippine Competition Commission and the International Rice Research Institute have signed a memorandum of agreement to strengthen collaboration in promoting competition and sustainable deve... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Chinese-owned Montage Technology is being investigated by the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice on suspicion of price fixing of semiconductor components, MLex has learned.
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 27, 2026 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
RIKEN, Japan’s largest science research and development institute, said Tuesday it has agreed to collaborate with the US’s Argonne National Laboratory, as well as Fujitsu and Nvidia, in artificial intelligence... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
Varying regulatory responses across Southeast Asia to issues involving the AI chatbot Grok could help inform efforts to align artificial intelligence governance within ASEAN, according to the Philippines’ top ... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea saw a 26.3 percent rise in reported cyber incidents to 2,383 cases in 2025 and warned that cyber threats will grow more intelligent and sophisticated in 2026 as artificial intelligence technology a... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Société LDC's acquisition of Green Label Holdings is under a UK freeze order which prevents the companies from integrating pending a merger review. Green Label Holdings produces and supplies duck... (more story)
January 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: IonQ, which bills itself as the world's leading quantum company, is acquiring SkyWater Technology, the largest pure-play semiconductor foundry exclusively based in the United States, for $35 per ... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Europe, North America
Lionsgate Studios Corp. has appointed former Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin to its board of directors, the company said in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Mnuchin formerly produced severa... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 27, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan
Asia
Indonesia’s move to require facial-recognition biometrics for SIM card registration has raised concerns from digital rights advocates, who warn that the expanded collection of sensitive personal data could hei... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australia’s privacy regulator cautioned the country’s online safety watchdog against taking an overly broad approach to age-verification in the lead-up to the country’s social media minimum age laws that took ... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea said on Tuesday that reported cyber incidents rose sharply by 26.3 percent to 2,383 cases in 2025 and warned that cyber threats would grow increasingly intelligent and sophisticated i... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 26, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
At first blush, a California federal judge’s refusal Friday to consider evidence recently gleaned from Texas patent litigation might look like a setback for Realtek on its antitrust claims against MediaTek. B... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Snap Inc. illegally circumvented technological barriers to access millions of YouTube videos, according to the latest in a string of lawsuits accusing technology companies of scraping content for large languag... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia, North America
China’s Grand Kangxi Communication Technologies (Shanghai) has secured an early win at the US International Trade Commission, with a finding of no infringement of rival Skyworks Solutions’ patents after a cost... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 26, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US public company disclosure requirements, including those for cybersecurity, should be scaled back, Securities and Exchange Commission member Mark Uyeda said. Uyeda, a Republican, said other areas for streaml... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
One of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s first acts in office was to deprioritize US anti-bribery enforcement, but on Monday the Justice Department touted its efforts over the past year, highlighting wins in two tr... (more story)
January 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A Turkish national and a German national were charged in the US over their alleged roles in a bribery scheme involving contracts with the US military and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's financial services sector has urged the government to speed up reforms to simplify regulations and make the sector more competitive, otherwise London will fall behind its global competit... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK’s financial watchdog has reminded financial markets to update their systems by the end of 2026 in preparation for testing a one-day trade settlement cycle next year, after an industry task force reporte... (more story)
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's new Anti-Money Laundering Authority will start a data collection exercise in March to test and calibrate its risk-assessment models for financial institutions. In a statement on Monday, ... (more story)
Trade View More
January 27, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's Ministry of Commerce has pledged to expand service-sector access and boost imports after reporting record trade volumes. Amid surging exports of green products, the government recently scrapped export ... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello and Cynthia Kroet
Asia, Europe
The EU and India on Tuesday wrapped up free trade agreement talks in New Delhi after 19 years, paving the way for a market of more than two billion people. The deal will cut or eliminate tariffs on 90 percent ... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The EU and India have signed a free trade agreement which will save about €4 billion per year in duties on European products, the European Commission said on Tuesday. The deal, which aims to stre... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said it signed on Monday a statement of intent with the US Department of Energy to deepen bilateral collaboration on artific... (more story)
January 23, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Facing growing risks of semiconductor supply disruptions, Japan’s automotive industry is preparing to launch a common platform with chip suppliers to assess supply-chain conditions. The head of the industry gr... (more story)
January 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Friday it has approved loans and subsidies of up to $73 million to support the expansion and operation of undersea cables between Japa... (more story)
Energy View More
January 26, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Several European states committed at the North Sea Summit on Monday to develop up to 100 gigawatts of a joint 300 GW ambition through cross-border cooperation projects. The industry pledged to reduce electrici... (more story)
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU imports of Russian liquefied natural gas and pipeline gas will be gradually prohibited, the Council of the EU said on Monday. The ban will start to apply six weeks after the regulation enters ... (more story)
January 23, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Liquefied natural gas is expected to be the main driver of gas markets in 2026, the International Energy Agency has said in its new Gas Market Report. Supply is projected to increase by 7 percent... (more story)
Technology View More
January 26, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
The European Commission aims to make significant progress and conclude several cases this year involving the protection of minors online under its digital services law, a senior European Commission official ha... (more story)
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: WhatsApp has been formally classified as a Very Large Online Platform and therefore must adhere to the strictest rules under the EU’s Digital Services Act, the European Commission said on Monday.... (more story)
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Details of how an upcoming cybersecurity reform would amend the UK’s Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 — also known as NIS — have been set out in newly published tracked legislativ... (more story)