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University students appeal denials of class claims in US price-fixing suit
Former students seeking a slice of more than a quarter-billion dollars in controversial price-fixing settlement payments from top US universities prompted a judge t... (more story)
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US FTC chief warns against discrimination of American firms at South Korea forum
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson voiced strong concerns over what he called discriminatory treatment of American companies by foreign competitio... (more story)
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The uncomfortable legal precedent behind Australia's BlueScope antitrust ruling
Last week’s BlueScope Steel antitrust ruling appeared to settle the question of what types of behavior can be considered an attempt to lure a competitor into an ant... (more story)
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Investor calls by companies will draw EU scrutiny where executives make statements about their competitors that are “not legally required,” according to a senior EU cartel enforcer. The remarks suggest the EU ... (more story)
Google faces an uphill battle as it seeks to reverse a US federal court order requiring the company to open up its Play Store to competition from Android app-distribution services, an appeals court said today.
A UK government-funded mass claim against Motorola Solutions — over the prices paid by emergency services for its Airwave telecom network — should be allowed on an "opt-out" basis for the benefit of taxpayers ... (more story)
Negotiated settlements and guidance can provide more effective solutions to competition problems than “headline-grabbing fines,” the EU’s competition boss Teresa Ribera said on Friday, pointing to the peace de... (more story)
The increase in collective action cases in the UK is “unparalleled" compared to other litigation, a judge from the UK's Court of Appeal said on Friday. Sarah Falk also said litigants and judges are navigating ... (more story)
CSR Building Products, owned by French building-materials giant Saint Gobain, has rejected antitrust claims by Australia’s Consolidated Energy that it illegally increased prices and stifled the distribution of... (more story)
Microsoft has escaped an EU antitrust fine over the roll-out of the its Teams communications service, after the European Commission accepted a broad package of commitments.
China has ramped up its crackdown on administrative monopolies across the country, with officials in northwestern Gansu Province facing disciplinary recommendations for obstructing an antitrust investigation. ... (more story)
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India's top court upheld the quashing of investigations against Ericsson and Monsanto, ending a 12-year legal battle. The Supreme Court of India's silence on the conflict between the patents and competition ac... (more story)
Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment and the country's competition watchdog have different interpretations of the Soy Moratorium, a voluntary agreement that prohibits traders from purchasing soybeans grown on ... (more story)
The use of powerful information-access laws by Australia’s antitrust regulator has increased over recent years. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission says that this uptick in “section 155” notices i... (more story)
Google’s heartburn this week as company lawyers walked back statements concerning the “rapid decline” of the open web highlights a high-stakes debate over what would happen to the internet if a Virginia federa... (more story)
Google recently dodged corporate dismemberment in US federal court, in part, thanks to one District of Columbia federal judge’s “hope” that AI industry innovation will prevent the need for what he described as... (more story)
Private-equity firm TPG Global failed to shake claims that it orchestrated an anticompetitive scheme with Musixmatch — which it is alleged to control. A California federal judge’s order this week rejecting TPG... (more story)
Paying a 2.95 billion euro bill is the least of Google’s problems. Managing demands from the world’s two foremost antitrust regulators that it sell off a slice of its lucrative adtech business is the real chal... (more story)
US District Judge Amit Mehta's ruling in the government's Internet search monopolization lawsuit against Google banks on hope that an "arms race" among artificial intelligence companies will disrupt the tech g... (more story)