China’s top market regulator has cautioned online platforms against forcing merchants to guarantee the lowest prices across the internet, warning that such practices may violate the country’s anti-monopoly laws. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) issued the warning on Wednesday during a news briefing focused on antitrust enforcement in...

Booking.com must pay damages to more than 1,000 hotels in Germany after a Berlin court concluded that the travel booking platform violated European competition rules, according to a statement. The Berlin Regional Court found that Booking.com’s use of price parity clauses unlawfully constrained competition by limiting how hotels could set prices....

A burst of bank charter approvals is putting crypto companies on a faster track into the federal banking system, albeit through a narrowly tailored “trust bank” lane rather than full-service banking. Last week, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced conditional approvals for five national trust bank charter applications: de novo charters...

President Trump’s recent executive order aimed at overriding state-passed AI laws may be earning applause from technology companies that have been clamoring for relief from a morass of sometimes conflicting compliance requirements. But it’s earning jeers from state officials. In the days since the preemption order was announced, governors and...

The Trump administration is preparing to rewrite some of the government’s most important cybersecurity ground rules. Those rules determine how federal agencies respond when a major breach hits U.S. networks and how aggressively the U.S. can operate in cyberspace abroad.  A new White House cyber strategy, due in January, is expected to arrive alongside changes...

DirecTV has cleared a major hurdle in its long-running legal battle with Nexstar Media Group after a federal appeals court revived the satellite television provider’s antitrust lawsuit, according to Courthouse News. The decision reverses an earlier dismissal and allows DirecTV to move forward with claims that Nexstar and two affiliated...

A group of prominent Congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, is urging federal regulators to closely scrutinize Nexstar Media Group’s proposed acquisition of Tegna, warning that the deal could harm consumers, workers, and local journalism, according to Hollywood Reporter. In a letter sent late Monday to Federal Communications Commission...

U.S. regulators escalated their legal challenge against Uber on Monday, with the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of 21 states, along with the District of Columbia, filing an amended complaint that accuses the ride-hailing company of misleading consumers over billing and cancellation practices tied to its subscription service, according to...