Tag: Antitrust
Zuckerberg To Meet With EU Antitrust Chief
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet with Europe's digital and industry chiefs on February 17, officials said on Tuesday, February 11, days before the...
Antitrust, Privacy Concerns Surround Google’s Fitbit Takeover Bid
Google‘s plan to buy Fitbit isn’t going as well as it had hoped, reports said. The search engine giant has been running into a...
DOJ Wants 71% Increase From Congress For Antitrust
The Trump administration is asking Congress for 71 percent more money for the Justice Department’s antitrust division in the fiscal year that starts Oct....
DOJ Drops Antitrust Probe of Auto Makers In CA Emissions...
The Justice Department has closed its antitrust investigation of four auto makers that had reached a tailpipe emissions deal last summer with the state...
Mondelez International Faces EU Probe
Mondelez International said it is being investigated by the European Union over allegations the company has violated competition law, reported The Wall Street Journal.
Mondelez,...
The Looming Crisis in Antitrust Economics
By Herbert Hovenkamp (University of Pennsylvania)
As in so many areas of law and politics in the United States, antitrust’s center is at bay. It...
iPhone App Makers Questioned In US Antitrust Apple Probe
The US Justice Department has reached out to app developers as part of its investigation into Apple Inc AAPL.O, one of the four big...
Antitrust Pro Returns To Brownstein
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced that antitrust attorney Allen Grunes will return to the firm as a shareholder in its Corporate & Business Department....
France’s Antitrust Regulator Grows Merger Unit
Anne-Sophie Delhaise and Géraldine Rousset are joining Sara Darley, deputy to Etienne Chantrel, Head of the Merger Unit. Jérôme Vidal, who was until now...
FTC & NY Sue “Pharma Bro” Shkreli, Over Price Hikes
Convicted “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli was sued by federal officials and the state of New York for allegedly violating antitrust law when he jacked...