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Train ticketing remains on EU antitrust radar January 22, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

How Europe’s incumbent train operators manage the sale of their tickets and limit the ability of online platforms to sell them is still an issue of interest to EU antitrust enforcers, according to the minutes ... (more story)

Google to challenge record Indonesian antitrust fine in court January 22, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos

Google’s record antitrust fine in Indonesia is headed to the country’s courts after the tech giant today said it “strongly disagrees” with the decision announced by the Indonesian Competition Commission late last night. 

Google faces setback as Indian court reverses lower court in Testbook lawsuit January 22, 2025 | Freny Patel

Google faces a setback after an Indian court reversed a lower court order in a lawsuit by Testbook challenging its Play Store billing policies, citing them as anticompetitive. The Madras High Court reversed a ... (more story)

Big Tech policies will come under spotlight of new Australian think tank January 22, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha

Policy proposals likely to affect Meta Platforms, Google and other online tech giants will be the focus of a new think tank funded by the Australian government with the backing of tech-industry players includi... (more story)

Visa trying to 'rewrite' monopoly suit through motion to dismiss, DOJ tells US court January 21, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

Visa’s motion to dismiss addresses "strawmen that bear little resemblance" to the facts alleged in a monopolization lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice, the agency told a New York federal court.

Ericsson, Apple, Samsung queried in Brazilian 5G licensing probe January 21, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Brazilian competition authority Councilor Gustavo Augusto has determined that Ericsson, Samsung, Apple, Xiomi, Reale, ASUS and LG must provide answers about Ericsson’s 5G technology licensing practice.

Medtronic, AMR argue over summary judgment in US medical device antitrust case January 21, 2025 | Clayton Vickers

Medtronic and Applied Medical Resources argued over potential summary judgment in a joint filing to a California federal court, in litigation over Medtronic’s allegedly unlawful bundling practices for bipolar energy devices.

Wayne-Sanderson data-sharing with Agri Stats violates US DOJ consent decree, agency says January 21, 2025 | Chris May

Wayne-Sanderson Farms’ continued sharing of competitively sensitive information with data broker Agri Stats constitutes ongoing violation of a wage-fixing settlement with the US Department of Justice, the agen... (more story)

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FTC turns page on ambitious period of US privacy enforcement under Khan, Levine January 21, 2025 | Mike Swift

Speaking with MLex while packing up his office at the FTC Friday evening, Sam Levine, chief of the Bureau of Consumer Protection under Chair Lina Khan, said the FTC made a “paradigm-shifting” change in privacy... (more story)

Mastercard gears up for Australia's 2025 blockbuster antitrust trial January 21, 2025 | Saloni Sinha and James Panichi

The high-stakes antitrust court action pitting Mastercard against Australia’s competition enforcer is set to dominate the first half of 2025. And there’s more at stake than the credit-card behemoth’s ability t... (more story)

Welsh Carson settlement ‘blueprint’ caps Biden FTC's crackdown on roll-ups January 17, 2025 | Chris May and Ilana Kowarski

A settlement between private equity firm Welsh Carson and the US Federal Trade Commission over allegedly illegal serial acquisitions in the Texas anesthesiology market offers “a valuable blueprint for future C... (more story)

For Big Tech companies, Southeast Asia can no longer be an afterthought January 17, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos

Big Tech’s increasingly contentious relationship with Southeast Asian governments is unlikely to improve in the coming year, with regulators growing bolder in cracking the whip against companies once thought t... (more story)

Google gets ominous disbarment warning as Epic antitrust claims ramp up January 16, 2025 | Mike Swift

With another round of antitrust litigation between Epic Games and Google ramping up – and a new participant, Samsung, at its heart – a federal judge advised Google today that its conduct on evidence discovery ... (more story)

Apple, Brazil CADE clash over global precedents for App Store probe January 15, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Apple and the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense are battling over the validity of global precedents that led the authority to grant a preventive measure against Apple sought by Mercado Livr... (more story)

UK lawsuit targeting Microsoft over cloud licensing multiplies market-probe risks January 10, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

Microsoft is in the news after being served with a UK mass claim seeking billions of pounds in damages over its cloud-licensing practices. It's territory on which the US tech giant is already exposed, with the... (more story)

Beyond Washington, 2025 looms as huge year in US data privacy January 09, 2025 | Mike Swift, Xu Yuan and Madeline Hughes

When the first important privacy ruling of 2025 by a US federal judge landed this week — Google’s summary judgment loss in litigation alleging it illegally tracked users’ mobile web activities and app usage — ... (more story)