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Brazil CADE to probe construction giants after settlement breach in bid-rigging case November 01, 2024 | Henrique Santiago

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 says US DOJ rent price-fixing suit lacks factual nexus in North Carolina November 01, 2024 | Clayton Vickers

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 to investigate AI-powered rent price-fixing, minister says November 01, 2024 | Khushita Vasant

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.

Google adtech monopoly suit shouldn’t be split further, US states say November 01, 2024 | Chris May

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 backs Mercado Livre in Brazilian app store battle with Apple November 01, 2024 | Maria Júlia Baumert

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, CVS, Medivet, others to see profits scrutinized in UK vets-for-pets market review November 01, 2024 | Jon Menon

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)

Boston Scientific discloses compliance with FTC second request for Axonics deal November 01, 2024 | Flavia Fortes

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, Visa face new EU antitrust probe into ‘network fees’ (update*) November 01, 2024 | Lewis Crofts

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 fine sees EU break new antitrust ground on patents, disparagement October 31, 2024 | Lewis Crofts

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)

AI tools are being asked to draft laws. Can we really trust the process? October 30, 2024 | Frank Hersey

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)

Beware ‘whatever it takes’ approach in policing AI revolution, EU’s Vestager warns October 30, 2024 | Lewis Crofts and Matthew Newman

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)

Australia's digital regulators are talking to each other. Is it enough? October 29, 2024 | Ryan Cropp

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-UK competition deal breaks new ground in breadth but remains shallow October 29, 2024 | Lewis Crofts

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 election results may slow regulatory agenda, complicate some policies October 29, 2024 | Sachiko Sakamaki

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, Warner antitrust fight over sports streaming JV heats up October 25, 2024 | Chris May

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 loss in Greek brewer’s suit highlights risk of parent-company liability October 25, 2024 | Natalie McNelis and Lewis Crofts

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)