Tag: US
DOJ Indicts DaVita & Ex-CEO For Labor Market Collusion
A federal grand jury in Denver returned a two-count indictment charging DaVita and its former CEO, Kent Thiry, for conspiring with competing employers not...
Intel In Talks To Buy GlobalFoundries for $30B
Intel is in talks to buy semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc for about $30 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar...
US & EU Competition Policy Is Aligning: WSJ
The European Union’s top antitrust regulator foresees greater alignment with the US on competition enforcement, particularly in the tech sector, amid a broader policy...
US FTC Will Decide Whether To Rescind 1995 Merger Policy
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) nnounced on Monday, July 12, that it will vote on July 21 on whether to rescind a 1995 policy statement...
States Go After Google Over Alleged Play Store Abuse
A group of 36 states and the District of Columbia sued Google on Wednesday over claims that its mobile app store abuses its market...
FTC’s Staffers Announced A “Moratorium On Public Events”
The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) chief of staff ordered the agency’s staff to cancel all public appearances, according to internal agency emails viewed by...
Antitrust Can Hurt U.S. Competitiveness
By Robert D. Atkinson, Wall Street Journal
When it comes to technology and the economy, the U.S. is grappling with two contradictory goals: competing with China...
Hagens Berman Gets Fee Award In Disk Drive Antitrust Fight
A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday awarded Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro more than $31 million in attorneys' fees stemming from its work...
US & Germany Work Together On Russia’s Nord Stream II Deal
The US and Germany want to conclude a deal by August to blunt Moscow’s geopolitical gains once the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline...
Rep. McCarthy Unveils Plans For Big Tech “Stop The Bias” Legislation
House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, unveiled plans over the weekend to hold Big Tech companies accountable for what he described as "conservative censorship"...
