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Colorado state Senator Julie Gonzales

Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence

April 22, 2025 | Emma Whitford

North America

Legislation aimed at algorithmic rent-setting proliferating across US

Financial Crime

April 22, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Asia, North America

Former Smartmatic executive gave US leads amid early cooperation in bribery case
Lina Khan, seated, speaking from behind a desk with a microphone in front of her.

Data Privacy and Security

April 21, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

North America

US FTC’s new COPPA rule to come into effect this summer

Antitrust View More

Yelp’s US antitrust lawsuit against Google survives motion to dismiss

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.

Google motion to dismiss Yelp's antitrust lawsuit granted in part, denied in part

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)

Google drops plan to change approach to cookies in Chrome

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

Google monopoly liability findings show global push to rein in tech giant, Yelp says

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)

Copyright ‘infrastructure’ could ease UK AI IP stalemate, WIPO official says

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)

US FTC approves final order requiring accessiBe to pay $1 million

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

Bharat Forge gets conditional approval to acquire American Axle's Indian arm

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)

Kingspan loses EU court dispute over file access in Trimo deal

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)

Kingspan sees EU court rule Trimo info case 'inadmissible'

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

Hosting of CSAM hits record high in EU; member states are urged to act

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)

Instagram, Facebook founders’ rivalry spills into US FTC monopolization trial

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)

UK digital ID companies warn government wallet risks potential 'monopoly'

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

Indirect infringement claims dismissed in Flying Heliball's US patent suit

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)

Flying Heliball indirect patent infringement claims again dismissed in US

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)

Canadian software company VirtaMove wins US dismissal of Red Hat lawsuit

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

PGI Global founder sued by US SEC, criminally charged over crypto fraud scheme

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)

UK fraud prosecution challenges come under independent review

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)

UK SFO set to let self-reporting wrongdoers avoid prosecution

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

UK FRC reconsiders investigation announcements after FCA climbdown

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)

UK prudential rules on step-in risk to enter into force in 2026

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)

Capital One-Discover US regulatory approval criticized by US Representative Waters

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

US appeals court says Commerce erred in Canadian wind towers calculation

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. 

Commerce erred in antidumping calculation of Canadian wind towers, US appeals court says

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)

Iranian gas magnate sanctioned by US for shipping petroleum to foreign markets

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

Danube CCS Ventures appeals Swedish aid for biogenic carbon capture

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)

Norway wins EFTA state aid nod for offshore wind farm

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)

EU law for state aid exemption needs simplification, member states say

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

Constellation-Calpine opponents don't object to US DOJ, FERC discussing deal

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)

Ukraine signs memo of intent on minerals deal with US

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)

Clarification on ‘omnibus’ law due-diligence checks, fines proposed by Poland

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

Google's challenge over fee for DSA enforcement released by EU court

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)

UK regulator bans new leasing of network addresses used in telecom signaling

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)

Don’t compete with private sector digital ID, associations urge UK government

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)