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The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  09/24/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Visa, Mastercard reach $6.2 billion settlement over card-swipe fees.  Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., and a number of U.S. banks on Tuesday agreed to pay $6.2 billion to settle a long-running lawsuit brought by merchants over the fees they pay when they accept card payments. Visa and Mastercard previously reached a $7.25...

Tagged in: Antitrust Enforcement, Antitrust Litigation, International Competition Issues,

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The Antitrust Week in Review

Posted  09/17/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Trump's antitrust enforcer considers shifting up a gear.  The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which stops mergers it believes will push up prices, signaled Thursday he was willing to consider tougher enforcement, a move that could affect high profile big tech companies but also energy producers, drug makers and a...

Tagged in: Antitrust Enforcement, Antitrust Policy, International Competition Issues,

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The Antitrust Week in Review

Posted  09/10/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Apple’s Takeover of Shazam Is Cleared by European Regulators.  European authorities on Thursday cleared Apple’s acquisition of the popular song-recognition app Shazam, after months of study into whether the deal would give the iPhone maker an unfair advantage over rival streaming music services like Spotify. Apple said in December that it...

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The Antitrust Week in Review

Posted  09/4/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Big banks win dismissal in U.S. of bond rigging lawsuit.  A U.S. judge has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit by investors that accused nine big banks of rigging the roughly $9 trillion government agency bond market from 2005 to 2015. In a decision made public on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos...

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The Antitrust Week in Review

Posted  08/27/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Apple to gain unconditional EU approval for Shazam buy: sources.  Apple is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its planned acquisition of British music discovery app Shazam, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The deal, announced in December last year, would help the iPhone maker better...

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The Antitrust Week in Review

Posted  08/20/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Apple accused of pressuring game rivals in Japan: Nikkei.  Japanese regulators are investigating Apple Inc over allegations it unfairly pressured Yahoo Japan Corp to slow the expansion of its online games platform, which competes with Apple’s App Store, Japanese media reported on Thursday. The Fair Trade Commission is looking at whether...

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The Antitrust Week in Review

Posted  08/13/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Beer drinkers lose U.S. appeal over Anheuser-SABMiller merger.  A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an antitrust challenge by 23 beer drinkers to Anheuser-Busch InBev SA’s (ABI.BR) $107 billion purchase in 2016 of SABMiller Plc, which they claimed would thwart competition and raise prices in the U.S. beer market. The 9th...

Tagged in: Antitrust General, Antitrust Litigation,

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The Antitrust Week in Review

Posted  08/6/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. U.S. court allows release of bench transcripts in AT&T merger fight.  An appeals court that is hearing the U.S. Justice Department’s fight with AT&T over its merger with Time Warner agreed on Friday to allow the release of transcripts of bench conferences that the public was unable to listen in on...

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The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  07/30/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Several banks dismissed from U.S. metals price-fixing lawsuits.  A U.S. judge has dismissed five large banks from two antitrust lawsuits by investors alleging multi-year conspiracies to rig prices for hundreds of billions of dollars of transactions in the global silver and gold markets. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni threw out all...

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The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  07/23/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. E.U. Fines Google $5.1 Billion in Android Antitrust Case.  European authorities fined Google a record $5.1 billion on Wednesday for abusing its power in the mobile phone market and ordered the company to alter its practices, in one of the most aggressive regulatory actions against American technology giants and one that...

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