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Spotify, Mistral, others face US retaliation over EU tech laws December 16, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

European companies including Mistral, Siemens, Publicis and Spotify could face regulatory blowback in the US after Donald Trump's administration warned it would use "every tool at its disposal" if the EU conti... (more story)

Global spread of 'DMA-style regulation' attacked by US House Republicans December 16, 2025 | Chris May

US lawmakers should reject antitrust policy modeled after the European Union’s Digital Markets Act and continue to use tools like “trade leverage” against protectionist industrial policies from foreign governm... (more story)

Cargill, Cooper, Farbest obtain final nod for US turkey price-fixing settlements December 16, 2025 | Clayton Vickers

Cargill, Cooper Farms and Farbest Foods, as well as commercial and indirect purchasers of turkey, obtained final settlement approval Tuesday in a US federal court, resolving the plaintiffs’ price-fixing claims.

Booking sees German court order damages over pricing clauses (update*) December 16, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Reservation platform Booking must pay damages to more than a thousand accommodation providers, after a Berlin court found fault with the use of pricing clauses dating back to 2013.

Apple, Amazon targeted by planned UK mass action over alleged retail collusion December 16, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

Apple and Amazon have been targeted by a planned UK mass action case that claims the two companies struck a secret deal to keep prices for Apple products artificially high for millions of consumers, the law fi... (more story)

Communications-watchdog nominee outlines priorities, vows to clear South Korea backlog December 16, 2025 | Jenny Lee

South Korea’s pick to lead the newly rebuilt communications watchdog vowed to get enforcement moving again on Tuesday, flagging consumer “dark patterns,” Big-Tech app-store practices and the growing policy pus... (more story)

China's guesthouses cite heavy margin erosion tied to alleged OTA abuses December 16, 2025 | MLex Staff

Guesthouse operators in China's Yunnan have reported significant margin erosion linked to what they describe as abusive practices by online-platform giants, according to the Yunnan Province Tourism Guesthouse ... (more story)

Australian antitrust watchdog backs Mayfield in NSW Ports Crown-immunity challenge December 16, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

New South Wales Ports should not be shielded by Crown immunity and competition laws must apply to private operators even when contracting with government, the Australian competition regulator argued after bein... (more story)

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Combined Access Advance, Via LA codec pools could fend off AV1 threat December 15, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

The video compression patent licensing market will be transformed by Access Advance’s planned acquisition of the Via LA HEVC/VVC program. Time will tell if the consolidation of core technologies by Google, App... (more story)

Latest Meta probes involve novel AI tech but familiar antitrust claims December 15, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Meta Platforms must explain to enforcers why it opened up WhatsApp to companies large and small a few years ago, only to now expel other companies' AI chatbots that compete with its own Meta AI service. Regula... (more story)

Is IndiGo solely to blame for India's aviation meltdown, or are regulators at fault too? December 15, 2025 | Freny Patel

India’s early-December aviation collapse has sparked calls to probe IndiGo for abuse of dominance. Yet the deeper issue is how merger control allowed such extreme market concentration — and why the Competition... (more story)

Ross, Westlaw appeal tackles both longstanding US precedent, novel AI December 12, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti

There is no shortage of interest in an ongoing clash between Ross Intelligence and Thomson Reuters in what could yield the first US appellate ruling on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an arti... (more story)

Japan reinvents industry policy to protect technologies and supply chains December 04, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

Japan is recalibrating its industrial policy to safeguard critical technologies and secure domestic supplies of strategic materials, amid escalating geopolitical tensions and widening export controls by major ... (more story)

Alaska, Hawaiian Air flyers detail harms to renew suit, show standing December 03, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski and Flavia Fortes

Consumers who want to unwind the Alaska-Hawaiian Airlines merger have returned to court with an amended lawsuit, telling the judge who rejected their prior effort to block the merger that they have ample proof... (more story)

Media Matters win against US FTC paves way for GDI success on investigative demand December 03, 2025 | Alex Wilts and Madeline Hughes

The Global Disinformation Index, or GDI, has joined Media Matters in asking a US court to curb the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into an alleged advertiser boycott — a challenge that is expected to see simi... (more story)

AI partnerships proliferate amid lax US antitrust scrutiny December 02, 2025 | Clayton Vickers and Chris May

Business partnerships between Big Tech and AI players of all shapes and sizes offer an easy target for US federal antitrust enforcers who have revived a previously neglected tool for cracking down on anticompe... (more story)