Tag: Antitrust
Sandoz Agrees to Pay $195M Criminal Fine, Largest For A US...
Sandoz a generic pharmaceutical company headquartered in New Jersey, was charged for conspiring to allocate customers, rig bids, and fix prices for generic drugs,...
Teamsters Join Push For FTC Antitrust Probe Of Amazon
A coalition of some of the largest labor unions, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters — has officially petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...
Credit Karma Deal Could Hit Antitrust Hurdle
TurboTax has long been the leader in do-it-yourself tax-filing software. But it has faced increasing competition from a nimble startup, Credit Karma, which has...
EU Sets Out Plans To Tackle China’s State-Backed Firms
European Union regulators will in June set out proposals to tackle Chinese state-backed companies enjoying an unfair advantage versus their European counterparts, EU antitrust...
Bill Barr Takes-over DOJ’s Tech Probe
Attorney General William Barr has set his sights on big tech companies like Google and Facebook, and has personally taken over the Department of Justice’s...
DOJ Faults Google For Antitrust Document Delay
Google’s delays in turning over documents in an antitrust investigation are “unacceptable,” the US Justice Department told the company in a letter this week,the...
Comcast Advertising Monopoly Claims Revived
Comcast must face revived claims it used its control over a regional advertising clearinghouse to monopolize “representation services” that coordinate TV ad placements in...
EU Eyes Single European Data Market
In Europe, the continued evolution of data policies and regulation now point toward a single market across the Continent.
As reported mid week, the European...
Google May Start Paying For News
Google may start paying news organizations for content, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Most of the publishers are outside the U.S., including France and other parts of...
Google Fights $2.6B Antitrust Fine In EU Court
Alphabet’s Google told Europe’s second-highest court on Wednesday, February 12, that antitrust regulators had no legal grounds to levy a €2.4 billion (US$2.6 billion)...