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Visa, Mastercard face UK lawsuit from Essendi, other companies April 30, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

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)

Icelandic power provider Landsvirkjun faces probe into electric supply (update*) April 30, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

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)

Symrise loses challenge to EU dawn raids in suspected fragrance cartel (update*) April 30, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

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 dismantles market barriers to buffer against US trade impact April 30, 2025 | Yonnex Li

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 baseball league in antitrust investigation for pressuring TV station April 30, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

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 leverage Gemini to dodge ban on default search, US DOJ expert says April 30, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

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)

Irico may have to pay $3.7 billion in damages to US purchasers of CRT products April 30, 2025 | Alex Wilts

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)

‘Broken’ Facebook Messenger an existential risk, US FTC trial documents reveal April 29, 2025 | Chris May

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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UK cartel suit against Nexans complicated by linked trial on green incentives April 30, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

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)

What Australia's Google adtech lawsuit may borrow from recent US enforcement April 29, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

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 FTC Chairman Ferguson distances himself from predecessor Khan April 24, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

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)

US FTC could end Southern Glazer’s case despite win in motion-to-dismiss round April 24, 2025 | Alex Wilts

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)

In Meta’s countdown to UK mass claim trial, evidence gathering becomes crucial April 24, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

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)

Competition regulators eyeing changes to US markets from import tariffs April 23, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

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 tougher DMA compliance talks with EU than Meta does April 23, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts

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)

Meta, Apple fines see EU on tightrope between trade tact and legal credibility April 23, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst

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)