Judge Amit Mehta, the U.S. federal judge hearing the government’s antitrust case against Alphabet’s Google, said he isn’t convinced he can sanction the company for overzealous attorney-client privilege use, Reuters reported Friday (April 8). Mehta said that would be the case if the behavior occurred...
Last year, South Korea became the first country to approve legislation changing Google and Apple Inc.’s policies on how apps on their platforms sell subscriptions, in-game items, and other online content. The law forbids Google and Apple from forcing apps to use their own in-app...
Visa will need to defend, for the second time, its debit card fees in an antitrust suit filed by payment processing network Pulse Network L.L.C. for practices that it claims reduce competition in the debit card market. On April 5, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court...
Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust division, delivered on Monday his remarks at the 2022 Spring Enforcers Summit announcing the division’s plans to step up their enforcement actions. The time for this summit and his remarks have probably been...
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...