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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge hearing the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit accusing Google of unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the internet search market let stand…
By Foo Yun Chee and Sudip Kar-Gupta BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Microsoft on Thursday found itself the target of an EU antitrust investigation over the tying of its chat and video app…
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Opportunity For Censorship’: Missouri AG Hints At Possible Antitrust Crackdown On Zuckerberg’s Threads App Katelynn Richardson on July 20, 2023 Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sent a letter…
By Foo Yun Chee and Benoit Van Overstraeten BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A U.S. economist chosen for a senior European Union antitrust job pulled out on Wednesday after her appointment triggered…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Shares in K-Pop management agencies fell on Wednesday, after South Korea’s antitrust watchdog began investigations into any potential infractions of subcontracting rules when outsourcing production of albums…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Generative AI, which is best known for ChatGPT, raises competition concerns and is a focus of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Technology along with its Office…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s antitrust regulator Cade on Wednesday recommended the approval of the sale of Natura & Co’s Aesop brand to French cosmetics company L’Oreal, according to the…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators extended on Friday their deadline for a decision on U.S. chipmaker Broadcom’s proposed $61 billion bid for cloud computing firm VMware by three days…
By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s competition watchdog AGCM is trying to close a legal loophole that has allowed several companies to evade antitrust fines and may help Amazon…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A U.S. magistrate judge said food retailer Winn-Dixie Stores Inc should be punished for failing to follow court orders in its U.S. lawsuit accusing coffee…
PARIS (Reuters) – European Union antitrust authorities will decide on UBS’ planned takeover of fellow Swiss bank Credit Suisse by June 7, the European Commission said in a statement. The…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc on Thursday defeated a private lawsuit in Seattle federal court that accused the national retailer of a scheme to curb competition for shipping…
(Reuters) – France’s antitrust regulator is expected to go ahead soon with an investigation into Apple Inc over complaints tied to changes that the iPhone maker made in 2021 to…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust complaint against Activision Blizzard on Monday, according to a court filing. The complaint was not immediately available on the docket.…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc that alleged its Facebook social media business drove a now-defunct photo software application…
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An Italian antitrust fine levied on Volkswagen over its defeat devices may have infringed the German carmaker’s right not to be penalised twice…
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Microsoft Corp has offered to change its cloud computing practices to settle antitrust complaints filed by smaller rivals, a person with direct knowledge of…
By Foo Yun Chee LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm returned to Europe’s second-top court on Monday seeking to overturn a 242-million-euro ($258.4 million) EU antitrust fine, a year after…
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Casino and Intermarche on Thursday won the backing of Europe’s top court in their fight against EU antitrust regulators and their attempt to…
JetBlue Hit With DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Over Spirit Airlines Merger Katelynn Richardson on March 7, 2023 The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an antitrust lawsuit against JetBlue on Tuesday to…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is fighting to keep its digital advertising lawsuit against Google in Virginia federal district court, warning of potential prolonged litigation if…