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Facebook’s track record of strategic acquisitions lie at the heart of the Australian regulator’s decision to probe the platform’s decision to acquire Giphy. -
Oracle told Australian competition officials to focus on Google’s expanded use of personal information through the 2008 acquisition of DoubleClick. -
If Australian competition law is a circus, then Rod Sims is the man in the big tent sporting a top hat and tails, spinning priceless porcelain plates. -
Until relatively recently, there was little to indicate that Australia was on the cusp on a regulatory push that might keep Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies awake at night. -
Big Tech threw everything it had in recent legal attempts to have four separate court disputes in Australia moved to a court in California — and failed. -
A technical glitch that saw a regulatory decision on a proposed multibillion-dollar telecommunications merger published before the market had closed for the day was “deeply embarrassing,” Australia’s top competition official says. -
When New Zealand scrapped the joint-venture exemptions under the country’s competition law in 2017, few mourned their passing. “They were a dog,” one lawyer told MLex recently. “They were form over substance and very difficult to apply.” -
When word got out last week that Norwegian shipping line Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean had been added to a growing list of companies on the receiving end of criminal-cartel prosecutions in Australia, there was some surprise among the country’s competition-law practitioners. -
Outside the United States, Clearview AI’s business model is under threat. Australia and Canada have forced the company to shutter its local operations -
Pacific National-Aurizon court defeat still vindicates regulator, Australian competition chief saysA court finding that the acquisition of the Acacia Ridge Terminal in north-eastern Australia by freight operator Pacific National would have harmed competition has vindicated an ultimately unsuccessful court action launched by the country’s competition regulator, its chief says.