Biden Admin Launches Probe Into Health Care Giant Amid Antitrust Crackdown: REPORT
Biden Admin Launches Probe Into Health Care Giant Amid Antitrust Crackdown: REPORT Will Kessler on February 27, 2024 The Biden administration in recent weeks has launched an antitrust investigation into the health…
Woodside, Santos could sell assets to overcome merger antitrust hurdles -source
By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) – Oil and gas firms Woodside and Santos could overcome any “significant concerns” with a A$80 billion ($52 billion merger) from Australia’s competition regulator by selling off…
US drops antitrust case over healthcare hiring agreements
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has asked a judge to dismiss the government’s prosecution of a UnitedHealth Group affiliate accused of unlawfully restricting employee mobility, marking a new…
EU antitrust regulators see no issues with Vodafone Hutchison mobile tie-up
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Vodafone and CK Hutchison’s $19 billion mobile merger in Britain does not pose any competition concerns to EU antitrust regulators, according to a European Commission filing. The companies sought…
Spirit Airlines CEO defends JetBlue merger in US antitrust trial
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – The CEO of Spirit Airlines on Wednesday defended in court the planned $3.8 billion acquisition of his company by JetBlue Airways as a means to create…
Considering the Antitrust Division – A Conversation with a Division Paralegal
The Antitrust Division’s Diversity Committee is hosting a virtual panel discussion for soon to be college students who may be interested in becoming a paralegal specialist. This panel will feature current paralegal…
Google executive defends search quality in US antitrust trial
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google called its first witness on Wednesday in a once-in-a-generation U.S. antitrust trial, putting on the witness stand an executive who detailed the vast effort…
Australia antitrust watchdog to oversee domestic air travel sector
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will ask its competition watchdog to monitor domestic passenger flights in a bid to boost competition in a sector dominated by national carrier Qantas, which is under scrutiny…
U.S. antitrust enforcer says pressing on with fight against Microsoft/Activision deal
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Friday it remained focused on its appeal opposing Xbox maker Microsoft’s now-closed $69 billion deal to buy Activision but…
Five things to know about the Google antitrust trial as it hits halfway mark
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government is near the halfway mark in its court battle with Alphabet’s Google, which it has accused of breaking antitrust law with the tactics…
No formal investigation into AI chips, EU antitrust regulators say
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators have not opened a formal investigation into chips used for artificial intelligence, the European Commission said on Monday, days after the French competition authority raided Nvidia…
New Jersey Joins FTC and Multiple States in Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon
TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that the state has joined the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 16 other state attorneys general in filing an antitrust…
Factbox-What retailers have launched U.S. marketplaces since Amazon’s FTC antitrust probe
NEW YORK, NY (Reuters) – Amazon faces an antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 state attorneys general for what they call monopolistic pricing to customers and fees…
US DOJ files meat industry antitrust case against Agri Stats
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday filed an antitrust lawsuit against data company Agri Stats, alleging that its weekly reports on meat pricing and sales have enabled…
Judge assigned to US antitrust case against Amazon recuses himself
(Reuters) – The judge assigned to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com has recused himself from the case, according to a court document filed on Wednesday. Senior Judge John…
Apple is ordered to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Apple was ordered on Wednesday to face a private antitrust lawsuit by payment card issuers accusing the company of thwarting competition for its Apple Pay mobile wallet.…
Epic Games asks US Supreme Court to review Apple antitrust case
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Epic Games on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the antitrust case it brought against Apple, hoping to reverse lower court rulings that have found…
Qualcomm defeats consumers’ antitrust claims over chip supply contracts
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Qualcomm on Tuesday defeated a consumer lawsuit in California federal court alleging the chipmaker’s contracts with device manufacturers had artificially boosted the cost of mobile phones in…
Factbox-Amazon antitrust lawsuit latest in US efforts to rein in big firms’ clout
(Reuters) – U.S. antitrust regulators on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com accusing the online retailer of harming consumers with higher prices, the latest in a long history of tough action against…
Factbox-Amazon.com faces an array of US consumer, state antitrust lawsuits
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A lawsuit by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against Amazon.com, expected to be filed as soon as this week, adds to a slew of legal challenges exposing…
Verizon executive kicks off week two of US v Google antitrust trial
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department’s first witness when the government kicks off the second week of the Google antitrust trial will be a Verizon executive, who will likely…
Google’s rivals get day in court as momentous US antitrust trial begins
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – DuckDuckGo, which has long complained that Google’s tactics have made it too tough to get people to use their search engine on a mobile phone, will…
Microsoft to unbundle Teams from Office in bid to allay EU antitrust concerns
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft will unbundle its chat and video app Teams from its Office product and make it easier for rival products to work with its software,…
Berkshire’s Johns Manville unit to face revived antitrust lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday revived an antitrust lawsuit accusing Johns Manville, a unit of billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, of monopolizing the market for calcium…
Striking writers take antitrust aim at Disney, Amazon, Netflix
By Lisa Richwine and Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) on Thursday urged federal regulators to increase their oversight of the streaming media business, saying…
Google makes emergency request to block Texas antitrust lawsuit move
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google asked a U.S. appeals court in New York on Tuesday to pause a decision to return an antitrust lawsuit filed by the state of Texas…
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