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Romania’s competition regulator imposed fines totaling 83.2 million lei ($18.3 million) on 21 companies after an investigation found agreements that restricted how distributors priced agricultural seeds and crop-protection products, according to SeeNews, citing the country’s Competition Council. The enforcement action targets a network of manufacturers and distributors in Romania’s agricultural-input market....

Drugmaker’s U.S. unit resolves three complaints tied to sprawling generic-drug price-fixing litigation. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.’s U.S. unit agreed to pay about $15.3 million to settle antitrust claims brought by Humana Inc. over alleged price fixing and market allocation in the generic-drug industry, according to BigGo Finance. The settlement calls for...

A long-running fight over the economics of the West Coast Dungeness crab industry is escalating, with commercial fishermen seeking $789 million from Pacific Seafood and other buyers accused of conspiring to suppress prices paid at the dock. The damages demand is part of an antitrust case alleging that seafood companies...

Apple has hired longtime American Airlines Group Inc. executive Nate Gatten to lead its government affairs operation as the technology company works to manage its relationship with the Trump administration and policymakers in Washington. Gatten will become Apple’s vice president of government affairs on Aug. 31, according to a company memo...

PayPal has defeated antitrust claims accusing the payments company of using merchant rules to suppress competition from cheaper payment options and inflate prices paid by online shoppers. The case centered on PayPal provisions that restrict merchants from steering customers toward alternative forms of payment, including by offering discounts or expressing a preference for another...

New York City lawmakers are investigating Polymarket and raising questions about marketing practices across the fast-growing prediction-market industry, adding a new front to the regulatory pressure facing platforms that let users trade contracts tied to real-world events. City Council Speaker Julie Menin accused major prediction-market companies of using aggressive and...

Germany’s top soccer clubs have gained greater clarity over one of the sport’s most unusual ownership systems after the country’s competition watchdog indicated that limits on investor control can coexist with antitrust law — provided the league applies them fairly. The Bundeskartellamt’s guidance gives the German Football League, or DFL, a route...

Microsoft Corp. is asking a federal court to throw out antitrust allegations that it participated in an unlawful arrangement with Valve Corp. to coordinate prices for PC games, arguing that the gamers bringing the case have incorrectly characterized an ordinary distribution relationship as horizontal price fixing. Microsoft made the argument...