Tag: Australia
Amazon Refuses To Describe Its Search To Australian Watchdog
Amazon has declined to describe its product-search system to an Australian competition regulator that has heard complaints of large marketplace platforms giving preference to...
Australia Fines Uber For Misleading Users On Cancellation Charges
Uber will pay roughly $19 million in penalties in Australia after the country’s competition regulator found it misled riders by warning of cancellation charges...
Australia Fines Expedia & Trivago Over Ads
An Australian court fined Trivago, a unit of US-based online travel firm Expedia, A$44.7 million ($32.91 million) for misleading consumers over hotel room rates,...
Australian Watchdog Goes After Honda Over Franchises
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has attacked Honda for making allegedly false statements about two car dealers that used to be franchised...
Australian Watchdog Sues Honda Over Dealership Closure Claims
Australia's competition watchdog on Wednesday took Honda Motor local unit to court alleging the Japanese carmaker falsely claimed to its customers that two of...
Epic Games’ Apple Australian Court Dates Moved To 2024
Proceedings in the legal dispute between Epic Games and Apple have bogged down in Australia, and won't reach a courtroom until 2024.
A Monday ruling of the...
Australian Watchdog Wants Big Tech to Share Misinformation Data
New laws in Australia would allow the country’s media watchdog to force Big Tech to turn over data on how they deal with misinformation,...
New Zealand & Australian Competition Watchdogs Team Up
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) on New Zealand announced a refresh of the cross-appointments between the New Zealand Commerce Commission and the Australian...
Australia Floats Widespread Antitrust Reform To Take On Big Tech
Australia's consumer watchdog wants major legislative changes spanning the entire gamut of Big Tech's issues, covering anti-competitive conduct, bargaining imbalances, insufficient consumer and business user...
Telstra & TPG Telecom Sign Deal Network Sharing In Australia
Telstra and TPG Telecom have put their long-running feud on network sharing to bed, signing a 10-year mobile infrastructure sharing deal that will boost...