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New Zealand's Winstone Wallboards faces court action over anticompetitive conduct
Fletcher Building subsidiary and GIB-branded plasterboard manufacturer Winstone Wallboards has been dragged to court by New Zealand’s antitrust regulator, which acc... (more story)
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Live Nation, Ticketmaster say US DOJ tying claim suffers from fatal defect
Live Nation and subsidiary Ticketmaster told a US federal judge that accusations of an anticompetitive tying claim in a government monopoly suit suffer from a “fata... (more story)
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Teva fine sees EU break new antitrust ground on patents, disparagement
Teva Pharmaceuticals today bore the brunt of the EU's latest antitrust clampdown in the pharma sector, seeing sanctions for two new breeds of conduct: patent game-p... (more story)
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The Superintendence of Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense will investigate Odebrecht, Queiroz Galvão, OAS and Carioca Engenharia for allegedly breaching a settlement agreement signed in 2023.... (more story)
RealPage told a US federal judge today that the Department of Justice’s opposition to transferring a case alleging algorithmic rent-setting by the company alleges harm only against a “handful of customers,” wh... (more story)
Canada's minister for innovation said he will ask the country's competition authority to launch an investigation into sky-rocketing rents potentially caused by algorithmic price-fixing.
Whether Google is liable for violating US antitrust laws by monopolizing digital advertising technology markets will largely turn on how the company “became so wealthy,” a Texas-led coalition of state attorney... (more story)
Match Group, a leading app developer and owner of Tinder, has filed a statement with Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense supporting Mercado Livre’s ongoing antitrust probe against Apple. Match... (more story)
IVC Evidensia, CVS Group and four other major providers of pet veterinary services will see their profitability assessed by the UK antitrust regulator in its ongoing market investigation. The six have a combin... (more story)
Medical device giant Boston Scientific said it has complied with the US Federal Trade Commission’s request for additional information for its proposed acquisition of Axonics. The company reaffirmed its expecta... (more story)
Mastercard and Visa received a formal requests for information from the European Commission as part of a preliminary antitrust probe into “network fees related to acquirers.” Both companies said the scrutiny s... (more story)
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Teva Pharmaceuticals today bore the brunt of the EU's latest antitrust clampdown in the pharma sector, seeing sanctions for two new breeds of conduct: patent game-playing and trash-talking rivals. While the co... (more story)
ChatGPT isn't just for drafting laws. Legislators around the world are using generative AI tools for a range of tasks to break their workloads, shift tone for different voters, identify gaps in existing laws a... (more story)
Europe should embrace the rollout of artificial intelligence to accelerate its own competitive edge in areas such as industrial production and the public sector, but it should be wary of demands to forsake Eur... (more story)
When it comes to the big digital platforms, Australia’s recent political leaders have been inclined to show a lot of bark, and not much bite. For this reason, the news last week that the government was conside... (more story)
EU and UK negotiators have broken new ground with a deal on cooperation between competition authorities. While it goes beyond normal parameters in including all of the bloc’s competition authorities and not j... (more story)
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's election defeat on Sunday has thrown the country's once-stable regulatory landscape into disarray. This newly formed minority government could face a slowdown in the pa... (more story)
Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery are fighting to rescue a high-profile sports-streaming joint venture that has run aground on the antitrust challenge of FuboTV, a tiny competitor in a pay TV market under... (more story)
Heineken’s failure to fight off a damages claim brought by Greek brewers in Amsterdam reveals the heightened risks that parent companies will be dragged into litigation triggered by their subsidiaries, and ult... (more story)