Mexico’s antitrust watchdog Cofece reportedly found that Amazon and Mercado Libre create barriers to competition for sellers on their platforms but said it will not order corrective measures. These decisions followed Cofece’s investigation into the country’s eCommerce market, in which the two companies account for a collective 85%...
The European Commission has accepted Microsoft’s proposals to address the European Union’s competition concerns over the company’s conduct around its collaboration platform Teams. This decision resolves the Commission’s antitrust investigation launched in July 2023, which looked intowhether Microsoft violated EU competition rules by tying Teams...
Microsoft and the European Union have reportedly reached a settlement in which the tech giant will avoid an antitrust fine by agreeing to sell its Teams videoconferencing app separately from its Office packages. In addition, the settlement, which is still in draft form, would require Microsoft to charge less for packages...
Elon Musk-owned companies X and xAI reportedly sued Apple and OpenAI, alleging that they operate an “anticompetitive scheme” in which Apple favors OpenAI and deprioritizes the artificial intelligence startup’s competitors in its App Store rankings. The lawsuit also alleges that Apple favors OpenAI by integrating...
American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) said Tuesday (July 29) that the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed its antitrust lawsuit challenging the company’s acquisition of global business travel and meetings solutions provider CWT. The companies now expect the acquisition to close in the third...
The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority said “Apple and Google’s mobile platforms hold an effective duopoly.” As such, the CMA is proposing new guidelines for how the two tech giants operate in the U.K., according to a Wednesday (July 23) press release. “Apple and...
The Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission, alleging that Google’s AI Overviews represent an abuse of the company’s market power in online search. The association alleged in its complaint that by positioning these artificial intelligence (AI)-generated summaries, which use publishers’ material, at the top of...
Pay-later platform Sezzle has filed an antitrust lawsuit against eCommerce platform Shopify. The lawsuit, filed Monday (June 9) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, accuses Shopify of engaging in monopolistic and anticompetitive practices to limit competition for buy now, pay later (BNPL) options on its...
Google and the Department of Justice are set to present their closing arguments Friday (May 30) in an antitrust case that could force the tech giant to sell its Chrome browser, stop paying Apple to be its default search engine and share data with competitors....