Tag: UK
UK Defense Committee Calls For Scrutiny On The Eutelsat/OneWeb Deal
Eutelsat and OneWeb’s planned merger requires the “strictest possible scrutiny,” a cross-party group of British government officials said in a report warning the U.K...
Amazon Faces UK Antitrust Class Action For Algorithm Abuse
Amazon is facing a $1 billion class action lawsuit in the UK, where the company has been accused of using a “secretive” algorithm to abuse...
Meta Forced To Sell Giphy After UK’s Antitrust Order
On Tuesday Meta announced that it would sell Giphy, the online repository for animated GIFs, after UK competition regulators issued a final verdict ordering...
UK Watchdog Refers Viasat-Inmarsat Merger To In-Depth Probe
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has referred the US$7.3b acquisition by US communications company Viasat Inc of rival Inmarsat for an in-depth Phase 2 investigation...
Microsoft Claims UK Watchdog Swayed Sony Bias On $69B Deal
This week Microsoft has accused UK’s competition watchdog of relying on “self-serving” input from rival Sony inits decision to probe the tech giant’s $69...
UK Has Concerns Over Viasat’s $7.3B Merger With Inmarsat
UK's antitrust regulator expressed some concerns with Viasat and Inmarsat $7.3 billion merger. The regulator believes the deal could lead to airlines facing higher...
UK Watchdog OKs Bouygues & Equans Merger
The Competition and Markets Authority has confirmed that it will not refer the merger of Bouygues and EQUANS to a Phase 2 review.
The competition...
UK Fines Soccer Firms For Price Fixing
JD Sports, Elite Sports and Rangers FC have been fined a total of more than £2 million (€2.3 million) by the UK competition watchdog...
UK May Fine TikTok Over Children’s Data
Britain could fine TikTok US 29 million following an investigation that found the short-form video app may have breached UK's data protection law by...
UK Satellite Operator OneWeb In Merger Talks
French satellite company Eutelsat said it was in talks about a possible all-stock merger with British rival OneWeb. Eutelsat’s statement on Monday said two...
