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Greece’s PPC met with EU competition, climate boss Ribera March 26, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Greek energy incumbent Public Power Corporation, which is battling EU antitrust allegations that it abused a dominant position, met earlier this month with Teresa Ribera, the European Commissioner overseeing c... (more story)

India proposes to drop 'Google tax' amid US trade pressure March 26, 2025 | Freny Patel

India proposes to remove the “Google tax,” an equalization levy that primarily targets American tech giants, including Google, Meta, and Amazon. The Indian government's decision signals a strategic effort to s... (more story)

Bond-trading banks fail to overturn EU cartel fines on appeal March 26, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

UBS Group, UniCredit and Nomura have seen EU judges uphold the lion’s share of 371 million euros in fines imposed after traders in European government bonds were found to have colluded. UniCredit and Nomura wo... (more story)

South Korea's KFTC to look into Qualcomm antitrust complaint against Arm March 26, 2025 | Jenny Lee

US chip giant Qualcomm's recently lodged complaint against British chip design firm Arm will soon be scrutinized by South Korea’s competition regulator, MLex was told. The complaint, which MLex understands was... (more story)

Big Tech says broad 'ex ante' rules will increase uncertainty in Australia March 26, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Atlassian, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft and Nokia are among the digital giants arguing that the Australian government's proposed “ex ante” digital-platform regulations — specifically... (more story)

South Korea's Dunamu probed for alleged market abuse in unlisted stock trading March 26, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Dunamu, the operator of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, has come under investigation by the country’s antitrust regulator for allegedly abusing its market dominance in the unlisted stock t... (more story)

Australian government will ban 'no-poach' deals, noncompetes if reelected March 26, 2025 | James Panichi

“No-poach” agreements among employers would be banned under proposed changes to Australia’s competition law, while all employees earning under $110,000 would be freed from the “handcuffs” of noncompete contrac... (more story)

DOJ, healthcare executive give opening statements to jury at US wage-fixing trial March 26, 2025 | Alex Wilts

Healthcare-staffing executive Eduardo Lopez cheated his employees out of fair wages, an attorney for the US Department of Justice, or DOJ, told a jury today at a trial over charges that Lopez illegally agreed ... (more story)

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Urgent regulatory plans stuck in Australian electoral purgatory March 26, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha

Rulemaking in Australia is about to shut down, with the government set to call an election and usher the country into more than a month of “caretaker” mode in which no significant decisions can be made. This i... (more story)

Groundbreaking verdict clarifies China's merger-control benchmarks March 26, 2025 | Yonnex Li

In a pivotal ruling, a Chinese court has clarified that previous antitrust penalties do not prejudice the competition authority's assessment of new mergers. This judgment marks China's first judicial review of... (more story)

DOJ, healthcare staffing executive face off in US criminal wage-fixing case March 25, 2025 | Alex Wilts

The US trial for the Department of Justice’s case against healthcare staffing executive Eduardo Lopez for alleged wage fixing and fraud kicked off today in Las Vegas with jury selection. Over the next few week... (more story)

Canberra braces as Big Tech pushes for White House action on regulation March 23, 2025 | James Panichi

Until recently, Australia’s strides towards regulating United States technology giants have been a source of national pride, suggesting that no matter how big the companies, in this jurisdiction they must play... (more story)

How Cambridge Analytica catalyzed privacy, antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech March 21, 2025 | Mike Swift

Seven years ago this week, a Facebook in-house lawyer put up a blog post acknowledging a rogue app developer had shared millions of users’ data with data-mining company Cambridge Analytica, despite having no d... (more story)

EU swipe at Google Search broadens net over ‘distinct’ services March 21, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst

After months of wrangling over Google’s travel and shopping results, the European Commission has reminded the company that the ban on self-preferencing in search ranking is absolute, covering many more service... (more story)

Democratic US FTC commissioners say firings undermine agency independence March 21, 2025 | Mike Swift

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya are challenging their firings from the US Federal Trade Commission, saying President Trump's actions are illegal and potentially undermine the FTC's independent consum... (more story)

CK Hutchison may face multiple hurdles in China over BlackRock port deal March 20, 2025 | MLex Staff

Hong Kong's CK Hutchison may encounter a complex web of regulatory challenges in China as it seeks to divest port assets in a high-profile deal to a consortium spearheaded by BlackRock. The deal, which is sign... (more story)