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Google CEO slams forced sale of Chrome as 'de facto' divestiture of search
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google, told a US federal judge today the government’s proposal to hive off its Chrome browser as a remedy in a monopoliza... (more story)
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Japan baseball league in antitrust investigation for pressuring TV station
Japan’s top professional baseball league, the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization is being investigated for a suspected antitrust violation by Japan's competi... (more story)
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Microsoft president to meet EU’s top antitrust enforcer
Microsoft's vice chair and president, Brad Smith, is set for a meeting in Brussels this week with the European Commission’s lead competition enforcer, Teresa Ribera... (more story)
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Agri Stats’s involvement in government litigation accusing Wayne-Sanderson Farms and George’s of violating an information-exchange settlement with the US Department of Justice “is necessary to protect its inte... (more story)
The US House Judiciary Committee today withdrew a bill that would have eliminated the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition and transferred and consolidated the agency’s antitrust powers in the Depa... (more story)
Companies like Facebook are the primary beneficiaries of targeted advertising, and the benefits to the wider US economy, small businesses and individuals are “marginal,” according to internal Meta Platforms su... (more story)
TikTok, YouTube and other digital platforms don’t offer personal social networking services akin to those of Facebook and Instagram, according to trial testimony from TikTok’s head of operations and corporate ... (more story)
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google, told a US federal judge today the government’s proposal to hive off its Chrome browser as a remedy in a monopolization suit is “so far-reaching” that it is a “... (more story)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
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 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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)