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US DOJ persuades judge that defendant is on ‘fishing expedition’ in wage-fixing case January 22, 2025 | Alex Wilts

Healthcare staffing executive Eduardo Lopez, who the US Department of Justice has accused of wage-fixing, was unable to convince a federal magistrate judge today to order the production of other materials the ... (more story)

Apple asks Brazil’s CADE to reconsider restrictions on its access to evidence January 22, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Apple Inc. and Apple Services Latam LLC have formally asked the Brazilian competition authority to reconsider its recent decision denying them access to full documentation in an administrative proceeding. The ... (more story)

UK snooker damages suit followed promoter row marked by alleged threat of action January 22, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

A UK competition-law claim against the main professional snooker tour over the freedom of players to compete followed a row between a sports promoter and broadcaster that resulted in the alleged threat of lega... (more story)

Belgian flour merger is latest to draw scrutiny based on ‘Towercast’ ruling January 22, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

Belgian flour-maker Dossche Mills’ takeover of its rival Ceres’s artisan flour business has triggered scrutiny from the national competition authority, despite being too small to meet Belgium’s merger threshol... (more story)

Ousted UK CMA chair warns against ‘short-term expediency or vested interests’ January 22, 2025 | Jon Menon

Marcus Bokkerink, the departing chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority, has rebutted suggestions that he hadn't sufficiently supported the economy after he was ousted by the government. He warned th... (more story)

Train ticketing remains on EU antitrust radar January 22, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

How Europe’s incumbent train operators manage the sale of their tickets and limit the ability of online platforms to sell them is still an issue of interest to EU antitrust enforcers, according to the minutes ... (more story)

Google to challenge record Indonesian antitrust fine in court January 22, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos

Google’s record antitrust fine in Indonesia is headed to the country’s courts after the tech giant today said it “strongly disagrees” with the decision announced by the Indonesian Competition Commission late last night. 

Google faces setback as Indian court reverses lower court in Testbook lawsuit January 22, 2025 | Freny Patel

Google faces a setback after an Indian court reversed a lower court order in a lawsuit by Testbook challenging its Play Store billing policies, citing them as anticompetitive. The Madras High Court reversed a ... (more story)

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Big Tech looks a big winner as UK competition watchdog is jolted to help growth January 22, 2025 | Jon Menon and Simon Zekaria

The ousting of the UK competition watchdog's chairman brings the likelihood that it will take a lighter touch in its antitrust and merger decisions. Dedicated new legislation to police Big Tech might become le... (more story)

Apple defends ‘walled garden’ again in trial of UK mass claim over App Store January 22, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

Apple’s defense of a UK mass claim over its app distribution and monetization policies is a fresh test of its capacity to fend off “walled garden” attacks over its digital ecosystem. The outcome of the damages... (more story)

FTC turns page on ambitious period of US privacy enforcement under Khan, Levine January 21, 2025 | Mike Swift

Speaking with MLex while packing up his office at the FTC Friday evening, Sam Levine, chief of the Bureau of Consumer Protection under Chair Lina Khan, said the FTC made a “paradigm-shifting” change in privacy... (more story)

Mastercard gears up for Australia's 2025 blockbuster antitrust trial January 21, 2025 | Saloni Sinha and James Panichi

The high-stakes antitrust court action pitting Mastercard against Australia’s competition enforcer is set to dominate the first half of 2025. And there’s more at stake than the credit-card behemoth’s ability t... (more story)

Welsh Carson settlement ‘blueprint’ caps Biden FTC's crackdown on roll-ups January 17, 2025 | Chris May and Ilana Kowarski

A settlement between private equity firm Welsh Carson and the US Federal Trade Commission over allegedly illegal serial acquisitions in the Texas anesthesiology market offers “a valuable blueprint for future C... (more story)

For Big Tech companies, Southeast Asia can no longer be an afterthought January 17, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos

Big Tech’s increasingly contentious relationship with Southeast Asian governments is unlikely to improve in the coming year, with regulators growing bolder in cracking the whip against companies once thought t... (more story)

Google gets ominous disbarment warning as Epic antitrust claims ramp up January 16, 2025 | Mike Swift

With another round of antitrust litigation between Epic Games and Google ramping up – and a new participant, Samsung, at its heart – a federal judge advised Google today that its conduct on evidence discovery ... (more story)

Apple, Brazil CADE clash over global precedents for App Store probe January 15, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Apple and the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense are battling over the validity of global precedents that led the authority to grant a preventive measure against Apple sought by Mercado Livr... (more story)