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Vertical Agreements & Restriction Of Competition By Object: What’s New In Europe?
 |  Jul 14, 2023

By: Jacques Buhart, Stéphane Dionnet & Frédéric Pradelles (Antitrust Alert) The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a preliminary ruling on June 29, 2023, in the case of…

JPMorgan Chase Files Insurance Claim On Frank Acquisition
 |  Jun 21, 2023

J.P. Morgan Chase reportedly aims to collect on an insurance policy after its acquisition of college aid platform Frank. The bank and Frank founder Charlie Javice are now engaged in a…

Conference Debriefing (35): FIW SYMPOSIUM INNSBRUCK
 |  Mar 17, 2023

By: Justus Haucap (D’Kart) For the European Antitrust community, the Austrian city of Innsbruck, high in the Alps and famous for winter sports, invites a different kind of memory: that…

DOJ Indicts Health Care Exec For Fixing Wages Of Nurses
 |  Mar 16, 2023

On Wednesday a federal grand jury in Las Vegas handed down an indictment accusing a healthcare executive of conspiring to suppress the wages for local nurses, in violation of US…

FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson Stepping Down- WSJ
 |  Feb 14, 2023

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…

Google Loses Bid To Block Indian Android Ruling At High Court
 |  Jan 19, 2023

Google on Thursday lost its fight in India’s Supreme Court to block an antitrust order, in a major setback that will force the U.S. tech giant to change the business…

Gazprom Wins Appeal Against Nord Stream 2 Polish Antitrust Fine
 |  Nov 23, 2022

Russia’s Gazprom has won an appeal against a fine of over €6 billion imposed on it by Poland’s antitrust authority, UOKiK, for constructing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline without…

UK’s Apple App Store Investigation Adds Spotify Podcasts
 |  Nov 1, 2022

Apple stopped Spotify from circumventing its App Store fees for audiobooks, and now, Spotify is allegedly speaking with the British competition watchdog over the incident. Spotify wants to sell audiobooks…

UK’s Made.com Pulls Out Of Sale Talks
 |  Oct 25, 2022

British online furniture retailer Made.com said on Tuesday talks with a number of interested parties for a potential sale of the company have been terminated after they were unable to…

Anticommons. A Very Brief Introduction With Selected Applications
 |  Oct 25, 2022

By Karol B. Zdybel, University of Hamburg The concept of anticommons has been gaining researchers’ interest over the past 25 years. Although it is not fully novel and occasionally repeats…

AI Isn’t Ready to Make Unsupervised Decisions
 |  Sep 16, 2022

By: Joe McKendrick and Andy Thurai (Harvard Business Review) Artificial intelligence is designed to assist with decision-making when the data, parameters, and variables involved are beyond human comprehension. For the most part,…

Tech Tank Podcast: How Does Tech Policy Fall Short In Protecting People With Disabilities?
 |  Aug 16, 2022

By: Samantha Lai and Alex Engler (Tech Tank) In the tech policy space, people with disabilities face many problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) biases have created disparate outcomes in automated hiring, while surveillance technology…

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