Tag: Antitrust probe
Groupon Pledges To Offer Refunds After UK Probe
Groupon has agreed to a raft of customer service changes - including refunds - after warnings from the competition watchdog.
The Companies and Markets Authority...
Japan Opens New Apple Antitrust Probe
Japan's Fair Trade Commission will investigate whether Apple is leveraging their dominance in the smartphone operating system market to eliminate competition and severely limit options for consumers, reported...
UK Watchdog Probes Mazars Over French Connection Audit
UK regulators have begun investigating accounting firm Mazars over its audit of retailer French Connection’s financial statements, reported the Financial Times.
The Financial Reporting Council...
Watchdog Starts New Probe Into Leicester City & JD Sports
The UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Leicester City FC and retailer JD Sports over the sale of club merchandise, reported Yahoo...
Stellantis’ Italian Exec Faces US Extradition Over Diesel Probe
Sergio Pasini, a manager at former carmaker Fiat Chrysler (FCA), now part of the Stellantis group, was released on Wednesday, September 29, after being...
China To “Deepen” Antitrust Probe Into Mobile Payments
China's central bank will "deepen" its antitrust investigations into the mobile payment sector, which has been dominated by a few private financial technology firms,...
Google Sues India Watchdog Over Probe Report Leak
Technology giant Google has approached the Delhi High Court, complaining against the leak of a confidential report in an ongoing investigation by the Competition...
Google Looks To Settle EU Digital Advertising Probe
Alphabet unit Google is seeking to settle an EU antitrust investigation into its digital advertising business, a person familiar with the matter said, a...
Australian Watchdog Starts Probe Into Port Activity
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has kicked off an investigation looking at both liner and port activity over the past year where...
TikTok Faces Two EU Data Probes
The lead data privacy regulator in the European Union has opened two inquiries into the Chinese-owned short-video platform TikTok, related to the processing of...