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Japan baseball league in antitrust investigation for pressuring TV station
Japan’s top professional baseball league, the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization is being investigated for a suspected antitrust violation by Japan's competi... (more story)
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Microsoft president to meet EU’s top antitrust enforcer
Microsoft's vice chair and president, Brad Smith, is set for a meeting in Brussels this week with the European Commission’s lead competition enforcer, Teresa Ribera... (more story)
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South Korean architectural firms fined for bid rigging following criminal probe
A total of 20 South Korean architectural firms were fined a combined $16 million today by the country’s competition regulator for rigging bids in construction-super... (more story)
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Visa and Mastercard face a UK lawsuit from a large number of companies, including Essendi, formerly known as AccorInvest. The action — the latest in a series of suits targeting the payment-card giants — was fi... (more story)
Landsvirkjun, Iceland's main electricity generator, is the target of an antitrust investigation into whether it is unfairly refusing to supply producers of hydrogen and e-fuel in the country. The probe is brou... (more story)
Fragrance-supplier Symrise has failed to overturn an EU decision that subjected the company to surprise inspections on suspicion of cartel conduct, judges have ruled. The company had argued that its rights wer... (more story)
China's top authorities will launch a sweeping six-month campaign to eliminate market entry barriers, as Beijing increasingly leverages its expansive domestic market to counter US trade actions. The National D... (more story)
Japan’s top professional baseball league, the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization is being investigated for a suspected antitrust violation by Japan's competition regulator for revoking press passes for ... (more story)
Google could potentially leverage its Gemini app to use generative artificial intelligence to return search results, thereby circumventing any remedies a court may impose to stop its illegal agreements that pl... (more story)
Plaintiffs suing Irico Group for its participation in an alleged conspiracy to fix the prices of cathode-ray-tube, or CRT, products are asking a US judge to award a combined $3.7 billion in damages, according ... (more story)
Meta Platforms’ top growth executive requested a slide deck to instill fear in Facebook’s senior leadership team during 2012 about growing competitive threats from messaging apps that could “jeopardize our com... (more story)
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The upcoming UK trial of a private damages claims targeting Nexans over a power-cable cartel is complicated by joint proceedings over a key energy issue that draws in a high-profile mass claim on behalf of con... (more story)
Recent Australian lawsuits targeting Google over its adtech practices appear to borrow heavily from similar allegations against the search giant in the US. Google’s Market power, Unified Pricing Rules and “hea... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has faced criticism from the US business community for his alleged support for heavy-handed regulation, but one newspaper recently crossed a line. The Wall ... (more story)
By rejecting Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits' motion to dismiss the US Federal Trade Commission’s price-discrimination lawsuit against the company, a California federal judge gave new life to the Robinson-P... (more story)
With Meta Platforms now having an autumn 2027 date to defend itself in a UK court over a $2 billion mass claim targeting Facebook data practices, the focus is on the litigants’ battle over evidence to sway the... (more story)
Under conventional antitrust analysis, companies acting independently to raise prices receive significant protection from antitrust enforcement. But in markets where foreign companies compete, that analysis fa... (more story)
Apple faces a huge challenge to redraw its App Store architecture in the next 60 days to ensure it complies with the EU’s rules on tech gatekeepers. With a 500 million-euro fine for curbing app developers’ fre... (more story)
The combined bill of 700 million euros for Apple and Meta Platforms today is designed to tread a narrow path: uphold the sanctity of a hugely significant piece of EU law, but not attract the ire of the White H... (more story)