More than 30 competitors in the travel holiday rental industry are accusing Google of promoting its own services over theirs, and one of them has submitted an official complaint to the European Commission, according to a report by the Financial Times. The timing of the...
Amazon has fired back in court over antitrust allegations in India, according to a report by Reuters. Amazon said a probe by the country’s competition regulator could cause “irreparable” damage to its reputation. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered the probe last month, with...
The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), the country’s antitrust watchdog, searched the Tokyo headquarters of eCommerce giant Rakuten on Monday (Feb. 10) over complaints about its free shipping policy, numerous reports indicated. The JFTC said Rakuten was breaching anti-monopoly laws by taking advantage of its...
Antitrust investigators from the European Union (EU) have requested internal records from Facebook as its investigation into the tech giant intensifies, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday (Feb. 6), citing sources. The European Commission has increased its push for information – including internal emails,...
Google ad tools have taken center stage in the Justice Department’s antitrust investigation of the search giant. As part of the probe, the DOJ talked with publishers, advertising technology firms and advertising agencies regarding Google’s online ad tools, sources told The Wall Street Journal, as...
As part of an ongoing probe into Apple, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has contacted app developers to inquire about the company’s behavior and potential antitrust actions, according to a report by Reuters. Suren Ramasubbu, the chief executive officer of parental control app Mobicip,...
Regulators are looking into a possible merger between Dean Foods and Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and its potential antitrust implications for the industry, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. Department of Justice has been meeting with retailers and farmers...
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials will meet with U.S. state attorneys general to share information about the ongoing investigation into Google’s alleged antitrust violations, according to unnamed sources cited by Reuters. The probe is centered on whether Google’s monopoly of the online search world...
Too big, too dominant — and anticompetitive, to boot. To that end, at a House Judiciary Committee “field” hearing in Colorado, titled “Online Platforms and Market Power: Competitors in the Digital Economy” a number of smaller tech firms called out Big Tech giants such as...
