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China's SAMR chief vows to tackle 'involution' amid food-delivery rivalries
China's top market regulator will intensify efforts to combat what it describes as destructive 'involution-style' competition practices, with the timing of its plan... (more story)
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JFTC unveils draft rules for upcoming smartphone-software competition law
The Japan Fair Trade Commission has unveiled draft implementation rules for the upcoming smartphone-software competition law and opened them for public consultation... (more story)
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US DOJ's Burnham steps down as criminal enforcement director for antitrust
Emma Burnham, a senior enforcer at the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, has stepped down after 11 years at the agency, MLex has learned.
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China's top market regulator will intensify efforts to combat what it describes as destructive 'involution-style' competition practices, with the timing of its plans indicating a focus on the heated rivalry in... (more story)
The Japan Fair Trade Commission has unveiled draft implementation rules for the upcoming smartphone-software competition law and opened them for public consultation. Modeled after the EU’s Digital Markets Act,... (more story)
South Korea's major furniture companies have been found guilty on appeal in a sweeping bid-rigging case involving 2.3 trillion won (about $1.6 billion) worth of apartment furniture contracts. The Seoul High Co... (more story)
Facebook had massive penetration among social media users and network effects that gave the social media platform an advantage over other rivals which was “not easy” for Google+ to copy, a former Google execut... (more story)
A US judge told BiT Global today that her “inclination” was to dismiss the company’s antitrust lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
Meta Platforms today filed a motion for judgment against the US Federal Trade Commission — while trial in the agency's monopolization lawsuit to break up the tech giant continues — saying the agency "has not c... (more story)
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Hikma Pharmaceuticals and a class of indirect purchaser plaintiffs got preliminary settlement approval from a California federal judge today for overlapping claims alleging the defendants... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission is cutting its workforce by about 200 employees, or 15 percent, to rein in "bloated" overspending that pushed its workforce over 1,300 employees following a "two-year hiring spr... (more story)
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The US Defense Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration are among the likely targets of a presidential directive mandating the evaluation of anticompetitive government regulation.
Andrew Leigh has been reappointed as Australia’s competition minister, with added responsibility for boosting the workforce’s weak productivity gains in recent years. In an interview with MLex, Leigh said stro... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador described his competition law enforcement philosophy as “neutral and fair,” meaning neither hostile nor obsequious toward business. Meador promised to find a middle gr... (more story)
A growing bloc of EU member states is urging the European Commission to reverse its decision to withdraw a controversial SEP regulation. The proposal will now be discussed at the May 22 meeting of trade and ec... (more story)
The Brazilian competition authority is feeling confident in court battles initiated by companies challenging preventative measures imposed by the agency, MLex has learned. At the moment, the agency has at leas... (more story)
Last week marked 100 days since the start of Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the US Federal Trade Commission, and while the new chairman has frequently talked the talk of a full-throated Trump populist, the wa... (more story)
Meta, Apple and top egg producers’ decisions to repurchase their own stock has become an area of concern for US antitrust enforcers and members of Congress who are flagging the widespread practice as a potenti... (more story)
The center-left government of Australia has been returned to office with an enhanced electoral majority, handing it a mandate to push ahead with key policies outlined over the past three years. Prominent candi... (more story)