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Shein pressured suppliers into anticompetitive agreements, Temu tells UK court July 14, 2026 | Simon Zekaria

Shein put pressure on its suppliers to enter into anticompetitive agreements, rival Temu has told a UK competition court. Temu, which is seeking compensation from Shein for the alleged practices, made the comm... (more story)

Google antitrust remedy committee struggling to staff up, US judge says July 14, 2026 | Chris May

Google and a US Department of Justice-led coalition on Tuesday confronted fresh issues that are delaying the work of a committee tasked with overseeing fixes to the company’s monopolistic conduct in search and... (more story)

Bayer asks US court to dismiss Latham's claims over seed market monopoly July 14, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

Bayer CropScience has asked a US federal court to dismiss Latham Quality's antitrust claims accusing it of unlawfully monopolizing the seed market on grounds that the complaint relies on impermissible group pl... (more story)

China's top court rejects 'normal profit' argument over illegal gains July 14, 2026 | MLex Staff

China's top court has upheld antitrust penalties against a ready-mixed concrete producer, rejecting its argument that only so-called "excess profits" should be confiscated as illegal gains. The judgment also a... (more story)

Coupang wins stay against KFTC decision naming Bom Kim as controlling person July 14, 2026 | Jenny Lee

Coupang has temporarily halted South Korea's antitrust regulator from enforcing its decision redesignating founder Bom Kim as the controlling person of the business group, after the Seoul High Court granted a ... (more story)

HP India fined $16.5m in government procurement cartels July 14, 2026 | Freny Patel

HP India was fined 1.42 billion rupees ($16.5 million) after India's antitrust regulator found it masterminded bid-rigging cartels in government procurement, despite receiving a reduced penalty for reporting t... (more story)

Japanese refrigerator makers raided over suspected Seven-Eleven tender cartel July 14, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki

Japan's three manufacturers of commercial refrigeration equipment — Fuji Electric, SDRS and Nakano Refrigerators — were subject to onsite inspections by the country's antitrust regulator on Tuesday over suspec... (more story)

Injunction against Nielsen over alleged tying upheld by US appeals court July 13, 2026 | Clayton Vickers

The Nielsen Co. failed to get an injunction aimed at its allegedly unlawful tying arrangement in radio ratings data markets overturned as a US appeals court on Monday found sufficient evidence that Nielsen exp... (more story)

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Client-attorney protection back at EU court in trade association’s cartel pleas July 14, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

The protection governing client-lawyer communications is back before the EU courts in a cartel appeal that gives judges a chance to decide whether advice remains confidential when passed on by a trade associat... (more story)

How Japan uses industry-wide surveys to reshape subcontracting practices July 14, 2026 | Genta Nakanishi

Industry-wide compliance surveys are becoming an important part of the Japan Fair Trade Commission's enforcement toolkit under the country's revised subcontracting law. The latest advertising industry survey s... (more story)

Epic, Google return to US court as economist questions revised Play injunction July 14, 2026 | Alex Wilts

Google and Epic Games will return to US court Thursday for another attempt to secure approval of a settlement in their long-running antitrust dispute over the Play Store. But concerns from a court-appointed ec... (more story)

Musk turns to antitrust claims over OpenAI-Microsoft alliance after charity loss July 10, 2026 | Mike Swift and Alex Wilts

Hardly a stranger to using the legal system to benefit his AI ambitions, Elon Musk won an order from a California federal judge that could lead to his antitrust claims against OpenAI and Microsoft getting cons... (more story)

Brazil's ex-ante digital markets draft bill faces pushback July 10, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert

The Brazilian government's effort to establish a new regulatory framework for digital markets is facing renewed pushback after changes were introduced in a draft bill that's ready for a floor vote.  A rival di... (more story)

Meta's French antitrust order aims to plug regulatory gap over media content use July 10, 2026 | Jean Comte

A French regulatory order for Meta Platforms to negotiate fresh terms with media outlets for using their content promises to help settle a dispute over remuneration and ease the sector's concerns about lost re... (more story)

Can Japan's co-regulatory model deliver better business dealings with Big Tech? July 10, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki

Five years after Japan launched oversight of major technology platforms, the industry ministry is shifting its co-regulatory framework from assessing procedural compliance toward demanding measurable outcomes ... (more story)

EU’s gatekeeper law survives ‘illegality’ attack; Apple will get another swing July 09, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

The EU’s flagship law survived its stiffest test yet on Wednesday, with Apple’s attempt to declare interoperability requirements unlawful failing on court review. The European Commission will celebrate another... (more story)