Microsoft’s size and scope has gotten the attention of Germany’s antitrust regulator. The Federal Cartel Office announced Monday (Sept. 30) that it was placing the tech giant under closer scrutiny in the form of a five-year “extended abuse control” measure. The effort comes as Microsoft’s...
The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Friday (Sept. 27) that it decided it will not further investigate whether Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic created a relevant merger situation that could result in a lessening of competition. The decision followed the CMA’s invitation for...
Following through on reports circulated Monday (Sept. 23), the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, accusing it of stifling competition in the debit card market and suppressing alternatives. The Tuesday (Sept. 24) complaint alleged that Visa employed exclusionary contracts and anticompetitive...
The U.S. Justice Department reportedly plans to file an antitrust suit against Visa as early as Tuesday (Sept. 24). The agency plans to allege that the company illegally monopolized the U.S. debit card market through a range of anticompetitive acts, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 23),...
The European Commission (EC) said in a Monday (Sept. 23) press release that it began unannounced antitrust inspections at the premises of financial services companies in two member states. Neither the number of companies, the names of the companies or the names of the member...
Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart have reportedly been accused of violating India’s antitrust laws. An investigation found that the two eCommerce rivals broke the competition rules by prioritizing select sellers on their websites, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 12), citing reports by the Competition Commission of India (CCI). The CCI had launched an...
There are few institutions worldwide capable of standing up a greater legal team than Google. But the U.S. federal government might be one of them. And on Monday (Sept. 9), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Alphabet’s lawyers will square off again, just weeks...
A month after losing a landmark antitrust case, Google will reportedly face another antitrust trial that targets its digital advertising business. In a trial set to begin Monday (Sept. 9) in Alexandria, Virginia, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and a coalition of states allege that...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly escalated its antitrust investigation of Nvidia. After previously sending questionnaires to the chipmaker and other tech companies, the DOJ is now sending legally binding requests for information, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 3), citing unnamed sources. This move signals...
