Indian antitrust regulators from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) are looking into food delivery companies Zomato and Swiggy over allegations of the companies not being as neutral as they should be, Reuters wrote Monday (April 4). The report noted that the delivery firms may...
Microsoft is facing scrutiny from regulators in the European Union over its cloud business and licensing deals, Reuters reported Friday (April 1). Over the past 10 years, the European Commission fined Microsoft roughly €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) over various violations of antitrust rules, the report...
After the agreement on the Digital Markets Act last week and the soon-to-be approved Digital Service Act, the EU is poised to use the political tailwind to continue with the modernization of its competition laws. The latest addition to laws and regulations that may be amended...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is accelerating its investigation into whether Google Maps’ practice of bundling the service with other Google software goes against anti-competition practices, Reuters reported Wednesday (March 30). The DOJ’s examination into Google began in 2020 and had gone dormant until...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has just officially endorsed the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act that mainly prohibits giant digital platforms like Amazon and Google from giving preference to their own products and services over those of competitors, marking the Biden administration’s first full-throated...
Proposed legislation that would reel in the power of big technology companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google got official support from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday (March 29), citing a letter to the bipartisan leaders of the Senate...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has filed a brief urging an appeals court to reject an appeal by several states to revive their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, Reuters reported Monday (March 28). The Chamber said the district court judge had been right to throw the...
Amazon and Microsoft can breathe a sigh of relief — for now. Two of the biggest providers of cloud computing networks don’t raise competition concerns, the European Union’s Commissioner for Competition told Reuters Monday (March 28). “No, so far we’ve had no concerns,” Margrethe Vestager...
Google parent Alphabet has urged a judge at its antitrust case to reject requests from the Justice Department that it be sanctioned over allegations of attorney-client privilege abuse, Reuters reported Thursday (March 24). The department asked the judge to sanction Google over the company’s “Communicate...
