Amazon, the country’s largest eCommerce player, has seen retailers in Austria file a complaint with their country’s competition authority over the company’s roles as both a retailer and a marketplace. Amazon’s business model is structured so that it sells products directly to consumers and enables third-party...
Mastercard incurred a $650 million fourth-quarter charge related to a large fine over a 2015 EU antitrust investigation, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Dec. 4). The company was accused of setting rules that blocked banks in one EU country from offering lower interchange fees to a retailer in another...
Walmart’s Flipkart, and Amazon, have not broken competitive rules in India through their respective efforts to promote certain brands or select certain merchants to sell across their platforms. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ruled earlier in the week that the two are not dominant...
In antitrust we trust – or at least a “look into” antitrust? News came Monday (Nov. 5) that, according to President Donald Trump, the current administration is – in his words – “looking into” possible antitrust violations that may have been committed by tech giants...
President Trump’s White House is considering an executive order that would force federal antitrust and law enforcement agencies to look into the practices of Big Tech social media companies like Google and Facebook, reported Bloomberg. According to a report in Bloomberg citing a draft of the...
In antitrust matters – and specifically in the tech realm – size may not matter all that much. And the biggest of the big tech players should not be singled out due to scale and reach. News came this week from Bloomberg reports that Makan Delrahim,...
The European Commission announced on Tuesday (July 24) that it fined, in four separate decisions, consumer electronics manufacturers Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer for breaching EU competition rules. In a press release, the European Commission accused those companies of imposing fixed or minimum...
Is a green light flashing for dealmaking in tech land, allowing large firms to easily snatch up smaller ones? There’s a verbal assent in place, according to the The Financial Times, that U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Chief Makan Delrahim sees value from such transactions. Delrahim...
Amazon Japan revealed news on Thursday (March 15) that its offices were raided by Japan’s fair trade regulator. Reuters, citing an Amazon Japan spokesperson, reported that the Fair Trade Commission raided the office over suspicions that the company was engaged in antitrust behaviors. The Amazon...
