Tag: Antitrust
EX-Paul Weiss Antitrust Pro Opens Own Firm
Jonathan Kanter, the co-chair of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison’s antitrust practice group, has left to start his own law firm.
He announced the...
FTC’s Phillips Talks Privacy, Competition & Antitrust Policy
Federal Trade Commissioner Noah Phillips (R) talks about privacy, competition, antitrust policy regarding technology broadly and scams against the public during the coronavirus pandemic.
Phillips...
Apple Responds To Spotify Antitrust Criticism Over Apple One
Spotify has been one of the major tech companies to accuse Apple of having too much power and using monopolistic business practices. Now after...
Labor Organization in Ride Sharing – Unionization or Cartelization?
By Mark Anderson (University of Idaho) & Max Huffman (Indiana University)
The sharing economy brings together the constituent parts of a business enterprise into a...
Amazon’s Japan Unit To Return $18M to Suppliers, After Antitrust Probe
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) announced on Thursday, September 10, it has accepted Amazon Japan’s plan to improve business practices suspected of violating antitrust...
Qualcomm Wants Class Suit Tossed After FTC Antitrust Win
Qualcomm is asking a federal appeals court to toss an antitrust class action seeking up to US$15 billion in damages in light of the...
Eversource & Avangrid Defeat Competitor’s Antitrust Appeal
Eversource Energy and Avangrid didn’t violate antitrust law by buying and refusing to release excess natural gas transmission capacity, the First Circuit ruled in...
Slack Fears Retaliation From Microsoft For Making Antitrust Complaint
Two months ago, Slack filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft for bundling Microsoft Teams with Office 365, and in a...
Evans Concrete Indicted On US Antitrust Charges
A federal grand jury returned an indictment against one company and four individuals for their alleged roles in a long-running conspiracy to fix prices,...
Amazon Submits Antitrust Reforms To Japanese Watchdog
Amazon’s Japan unit has submitted to the country’s antitrust watchdog a set of proposed reforms including returning money to its suppliers after having them...
