Google has offered to allow rival ad intermediaries place advertisements on YouTube as a way of potentially ending a European antitrust investigation, according to a Monday (June 13) Reuters report. Per the report, sources close to the probe say Google is hoping this remedy can...
Amazon said in a Wednesday (June 1) blog post that an antitrust bill making its way through Congress that bans tech giants from giving their own businesses preferential treatment on their own websites unfairly targets the online retailer, explaining it goes easier on some of...
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has brought proceedings against Mastercard for allegedly engaging in anticompetitive practices, according to a Monday (May 30) press release. The alleged conduct occurred in 2017, when the Reserve Bank of Australia was looking to boost competition in the...
Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, has warned buyout firms that they may be subject to tougher regulatory review if future deals have the potential to harm the American economy. In an interview with the Financial Times, the top antitrust...
Facebook owner Meta Platforms said Tuesday (May 10) that a German antitrust order limiting its data collection was “clearly flawed” and undermined European data protection regulations. As Reuters reported, Meta’s criticism came in the wake of the German antitrust watchdog ordering the social media giant...
Match Group, the dating apps maker, has sued Google on Monday in what it says is a last-ditch effort to stop Tinder and its other apps from being booted off the Play Store, Reuters writes. That might happen because Match had refused to share up...
Google on Monday (May 2) asked Luxembourg-based General Court to do away with a $1.6 billion fine handed down three years ago by antitrust regulators who said the search engine hampered its rivals in online search advertising, according to a Reuters report. European Union antitrust...
Apple will be facing new antitrust charges in Brussels next week over how it reportedly restricts rivals from accessing its mobile payment system, the Financial Times (FT) reported Thursday (April 28). This comes while the European Union is setting up its newest challenges against the...
Meta Platforms Inc. is fighting allegations by the United Kingdom’s antitrust watchdog that the tech giant is violating anticompetitive rules, Bloomberg reported Monday (April 25). Meta has accused the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of being “irrational” and “inconsistent” when it determined Giphy, the GIF...
