Tag: EU
EU General Court Sides With Vestager In Gazprom Case
The EU General Court sided with EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager in her big antitrust case into Gazprom, upholding her main 2018 decision to...
EU Opens Antitrust Probe Into Couture Designers
The European Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Pierre Cardin and its licensee the Ahlers Group may have breached EU...
Illumina Offers Concessions To EU Over $8B Grail Deal
Illumina has offered to cut prices and continue to allow rivals access to its technologies in a bid to allay EU antitrust concerns about...
EU Conditionally Clears Facebook Kustomer Deal
Facebook secured EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of US customer service startup Kustomer after agreeing to provide rivals free access to its messaging...
Intel Wins Appeal of $1.2B EU Antitrust Fine
Intel has won its appeal against a €1.06 billion (US$1.2 billion) EU antitrust fine from 12 years ago, reported The Wall Street Journal. The decision...
EU Fines Telefônica, Portugal Telecom $89M
EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday reimposed fines worth 79 million euros ($89 million) against Telefonica and Pharol, formerly known as Portugal Telecom, after previous...
EU Antitrust Regulators Extend Illumina, Grail Deadline To March 4
EU antitrust regulators have extended the deadline for their decision on US life sciences company Illumina’s bid for $8 billion cash-and-stock takeover of Grail...
Google Overhauls EU Cookie Replacement Plan
Google is overhauling its plans for targeted online advertising after pushback from privacy advocates, aiming to give marketers less-granular information about web users than...
German Publishers Want Google EU To Not Remove Cookies From Chrome
German media companies want the European Union to prevent Google from removing third-party cookies from its Chrome browser, claiming the move will eat into...
Vestager Believes New Smart Devices May Need EU Rules
Big tech’s smart devices may need European Union rules if antitrust probes can’t tackle “systemic” problems on how they may gather data and lock...