November 06, 2012
E.U.: Amazon wins in longstanding e-book antitrust case against Apple,...
Sources say Apple Inc. and four publishers of e-books offered a settlement last month with the European Commission, offering to discontinue certain policies that restricted Amazon’s ability to set competitive...
November 05, 2012
The Consumer, Once King, Is Missing in the EU Interchange...
When the European General Court’s MasterCard Judgment came down my wife and I were celebrating a significant wedding anniversary with a long-planned trip to Sicily. Even though I was curious,...
November 05, 2012
U.S.: $46M fine for Wachovia in municipal bond bid-rigging
Wachovia Bank N.A. has been formally charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly rigging 58 municipal bond reinvestment transactions to earn fraudulent profits in the reinvestment of...
November 05, 2012
Australia: ACCC brings price-fixing charges to Flight Centre
According to a suit filed against Flight Centre by the ACCC, the travel agency is being charged with price-fixing in efforts to protect its guarantee of lowest airfares without losing...
November 02, 2012
Vietnam: National Assembly calls for antitrust investigation into fuel sector
Deputy of the National Assembly Le Thi Nga has called upon the Vietnam Competition Authority to investigate the nation’s fuel management sector, arguing that businesses harm consumer interest. Nga cited...
November 02, 2012
Endogenous Mergers and Collusion in Asymmetric Market Structures
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mattias Ganslandt (Centre for European Law and Economics, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder), Lars Persson (Research Institute of Industrial Economics,...
November 01, 2012
Payments’ Past, Present And Future: A Review
Here’s an assignment for you: outline the entire history of payments, delve into the current trends and predict where the industry will go over the next decade. That may seem...
October 31, 2012
The 25 Worst Passwords Of 2012: Is Yours On The...
Internet passwords. You need them for just about any service you use online, and it’s easy to get lazy. Creating intricate passwords can lead to account lockouts, and making different...
October 29, 2012
Botswana: CMA directors may receive P18.4M through BIHL sell-off
Three competition authorities have approved BIHL’s proposal to sell Bifm Capital, one of its subsidiaries, for up to P18.4 million, if Bifm wins an ongoing case to redeem shares from...