Tag: Antitrust
Charles River Associates Gets New Senior Antitrust Consultant
Charles River Associates (CRA) announced that Parker Normann has become a Senior Consultant to its Antitrust & Competition Economics Practice. Dr. Normann is affiliated...
Why Congress Would Be Crazy To Grant The NCAA An Antitrust...
By Marc Edelman, Forbes
At the same time that the National Collegiate Athletic Association unveiled last week a new plan to mildly reform its name,...
Facebook To Address Some US Antitrust Concerns With Photo Transfer Tool
Facebook will allow users in the United States and Canada to transfer photos and videos to a rival tech platform for the first time...
My Competitor-Supplier Just Decided to Stop Dealing with Me: Do the...
Luis Blanquez (The Antitrust Attorney)
Good news––the answer is yes. The bad news, however, is that antitrust laws only help you in very limited scenarios.
As...
Federal Court OKs $5B Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica Settlement
A federal judge on Thursday, April 23, approved the US$5 billion Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fine that Facebook agreed to pay last year over...
South Africa Orders Overcharging Hardware Store To Refund Customers
South African Competition Tribunal on Friday, April 24, ordered Main Hardware to refund all its customers for overcharging them on the sale of surgical...
Big Tech State Antitrust Probes Continue During COVID-19
Multistate antitrust investigations into Facebook and Alphabet’'s Google are continuing during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, reported Bloomberg.
“These investigations will not lose steam,” Gwendolyn Cooley,...
FTC Antitrust Chief Says Antitrust Enforcement Remains As Usual
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust enforcement remains as usual as it can be in unusual times, the head of the agency’s competition bureau...
Experts Say Big Tech’s COVID-19 Response Won’t Carry Weight In Antitrust...
New work from home set-ups and a goodwill tour by the Big Tech companies are unlikely to soften the nation’s top antitrust agencies in...
Freshfields Announces 2 New Antitrust Partners
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced the election of 2 new competition partners with effect from May 1, 2020.
Commenting on the promotions, Freshfields’ Senior...