Tag: Antitrust
Elon Musk Takes 9% Stake In Twitter
Elon Musk, the celebrity billionaire and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has purchased a 9% stake in Twitter Inc., sending the mini-blogging social media’s...
DOJ Gears Up For First-Ever Criminal Labor Antitrust Trials
The Department of Justice’s first-ever criminal trials over companies’ alleged violations of labor-related antitrust laws are set to kick off soon, reported Bloomberg.
The pair of...
DOJ’s Kanter Plans More Merger Scrutiny
If US Department of Justice (DOJ) Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter gets his way, mergers would be examined with more scrutiny, decades of lenient antitrust enforcement...
EU Watchdog Goes After Microsoft Cloud
EU antitrust regulators are quizzing Microsoft's rivals and customers about its cloud business and licensing deals, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed, in a...
EU Set To OK Parker’s $8.3b Meggitt Buy
Parker-Hannifin is set to gain EU antitrust clearance for its 6.3 billion pound ($8.3 billion) bid for Britain's Meggitt after offering to sell a US factory...
DC AG Says Fighting Big Tech Is Like “David & Goliath”
In his battles with Big Tech, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine sees his office as something of an underdog.
“In a real way,...
Apple Explores In-House Payments Processing
Technology giant Apple is trying to bring more of its operations in-house, including developing its own payment processing tech and infrastructure that will run...
Koch Brothers Back Apple In Antitrust Row
Apple has won the support of the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers’ advocacy group in a court fight over claims the iPhone maker’s App Store...
EU’s Vestager Wants To Streamline Antitrust Rules
Regulators are looking to update rules, which target companies abusing their market power and those setting up illegal cartels, to make them more efficient, EU...
Eversheds Sutherland Opens San Francisco Office
Eversheds Sutherland said Tuesday it has expanded to San Francisco, marking the latest large law firm with UK roots to push further into the...