Italy's Antitrust authority, the AGCM, has launched an investigation into major wine bottle producers, both local and international, following complaints from Italian winemakers about a suspected cartel influencing the pricing...

Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Wilson, the sole remaining Republican at the FTC’s governing board, said she plans to resign from the position, citing her reason for this decision as Democratic Chair Lina Khan’s “disregard for the rule of law and due process.” “Much ink has been spilled about Lina Khan’s attempts to remake federal antitrust […]

The South Korean parliament approved a bill on Tuesday, August 31, that will ban major app store operators — like Google and Apple — from requiring developers to only use their payment systems to process the sale of digital products and services, reported The Wall Street Journal. The legislation will become law once signed by […]

The Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division today issued joint statement detailing an expedited antitrust procedure and providing guidance for collaborations of businesses working to protect the health and safety of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The expedited procedure notes, for example, that health care facilities may need to work together […]

Hillary Clinton is urging federal regulators to go after an embattled pharma CEO who raised the price of a decades-old medication by 5,000 percent. The Democratic front-runner wrote to the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission about the anti-parasite drug Daraprim, according to Reuters. The price of the generic drug rose from $13.50 […]

European Union regulators are keeping their options open as to whether to sanction Google for abusing its market power or settle the long-running case with the company, Europe’s chief competition regulator said on Wednesday. The comments by European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager came as her officials reviewed Google’s response to EU charges laid out in April and […]