By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A California federal judge on Thursday dismissed antitrust claims against commercial real estate information services company CoStar Group Inc, in …
(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is preparing an antitrust lawsuit to block software maker Adobe Inc’s $20 billion bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma, …
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG has agreed to pay $30 million to settle claims by health plans and consumers that it …
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Two major U.S. law firms are feuding over which one will lead a consumer antitrust class action against Meta Platforms …
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Intel could face yet another EU antitrust fine despite winning its court fight last year against a 1.06 …
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Lawyers for Alphabet Inc’s Google LLC on Wednesday said they will ask a federal judge in Virginia to move the …
(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department sued Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday, marking the third antitrust lawsuit filed against a tech giant since the Trump administration …
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s antitrust authority said on Monday the offices of several oil companies, including Italy’s Eni and Exxon Mobil Corp’s ESSO Italiana unit, …
By Aditya Kalra and Munsif Vengattil NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Google has told a tribunal in India that the country’s antitrust investigators copied parts of …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google asked a federal court late on Monday to toss out the U.S. Justice Department’s 2020 lawsuit against it, which …
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s antitrust authority said on Wednesday it has rejected a claim by pay TV channel Canal Plus and beIN Sports that the …
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. online retail giant Amazon may be able to end two EU antitrust investigations by the end of the …
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft is likely to face an EU antitrust investigation as regulators intensify their scrutiny into its practices in …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster’s owner, Live Nation Entertainment, the New York Times reported on Friday …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House competition adviser Tim Wu said Thursday the Biden administration is still backing tech antitrust legislation that is before Congress as …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate antitrust panel is expected to announce as soon as Tuesday a hearing on the merger of grocery giants Kroger …
House Passes Sweeping Antitrust Package Targeting Big Tech John Hugh DeMastri on September 29, 2022 The House of Representative passed sweeping antitrust legislation targeting …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to approve a bill that would sharply raise fees for antitrust reviews of the …
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice have asked to take part in oral arguments next month in “Fortnite” creator …
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google on Wednesday voiced disappointment with an EU court judgment backing an EU antitrust decision against the company. “We are disappointed that …
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Europe’s second-top court on Wednesday upheld an EU antitrust decision against Alphabet unit Google for using its Android mobile operating system to …
(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun a review of Amazon.com’s $1.7 billion takeover of robot vacuum maker iRobot Corp to decide if …
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS – U.S. satellite operator Viasat’s bid for British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat will need EU antitrust approval before it can …
BRUSSELS – EU antitrust regulators are expected to veto U.S. life sciences firm Illumina’s acquisition of biotechnology company Grail, people familiar with the matter said …
MILAN – Italy’s antitrust authority said on Wednesday it had opened an investigation against Samsung in Italy and two other companies over alleged misleading and …
WASHINGTON – A U.S. congressional leader on antitrust, Senator Amy Klobuchar, on Tuesday called for Congress to pass a bill to rein in Big Tech, …
By Foo Yun Chee LUXEMBOURG -U.S. life sciences company Illumina on Wednesday lost its challenge against European Union scrutiny of its $8 billion cash-and-stock takeover …
Google Offers To Break Up To Prevent Antitrust Lawsuit Max Keating on July 8, 2022 Google has offered to break apart in a bid to …
WASHINGTON – Meta’s Facebook has asked a U.S. court for eight documents created by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission as part of their review of …
BERLIN -Germany’s antitrust watchdog said on Wednesday that U.S. ecommerce giant Amazon’s position is of outstanding, cross-market importance for competition, a classification that allows the …
By Divya Rajagopal TORONTO – Canada’s antitrust authority, Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications will begin two-day negotiations on Monday to discuss possible remedies to the …
FRANKFURT – German Economy Minister Robert Habeck plans to present concrete proposals to tighten the nation’s antitrust laws and give the Federal Cartel Office more …
By Jonathan Stempel and Mike Scarcella NEW YORK – A federal jury on Thursday ruled in favor of American Airlines Group Inc in its long-running …
By Foo Yun Chee BERLIN – Europe’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, the architect of landmark rules to curb the power of U.S. tech giants, called …
By Foo Yun Chee BERLIN – EU antitrust rules should be beefed up to allow regulators to break up companies for serious breaches, German State …
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS – Alphabet unit Google on Monday urged Europe’s second-highest court to dismiss a 1.49-billion-euro ($1.6 billion) fine imposed by EU …
(Reuters) – Semiconductor maker Broadcom Inc is under scrutiny from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission following complaints it is forcing exclusive agreements with customers, The …
(Reuters) -A Moscow court on Thursday ruled that it was lawful for Russia’s anti-monopoly regulator to open an antitrust case against Apple over an App …
FRANKFURT – A Volkswagen-led consortium that has made a bid to buy Europcar has filed for antitrust clearance with the European Commission, it said on …
By Paresh Dave BRUSSELS – EU antitrust regulators are quizzing Microsoft’s rivals and customers about its cloud business and licensing deals, a questionnaire seen by …
(Reuters) – Online gaming platform Roblox Corp said on Thursday Apple Inc’s App Store offers privacy and safety benefits to its users, supporting the iPhone-maker’s …
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS – Regulators are looking to update rules, which target companies abusing their market power and those setting up illegal cartels, …
WASHINGTON – The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a brief on Monday, urging a D.C. appeals court to reject an appeal by a big …
BRUSSELS – Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai will meet Europe’s antitrust chief on March 30 to discuss competition and digital issues, a European Commission …
WASHINGTON – Alphabet’s Google urged a judge hearing a U.S. antitrust case against it to reject the Justice Department’s request that it be sanctioned, saying …
– The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sought additional data from Activision Blizzard Inc and Microsoft Corp related to the antitrust review of their deal, …
PARIS – U.S. tech giant Microsoft is facing an antitrust complaint filed by three European rivals in the booming cloud computing business, one the plaintiffs …
By Nate Raymond -Viatris Inc, the drugmaker formerly known as Mylan, said on Monday it had agreed to pay $264 million to resolve a class …
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS – Irish insurers’ association Insurance Ireland has offered to open up its data sharing platform to non-members and apply fair …
– An administrative law judge dismissed a Federal Trade Commission antitrust complaint against tobacco company Altria Group Inc. and electronic cigarette maker JUUL Labs Inc., …