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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  12/9/19
								

				 
								 				Facebook in EU antitrust crosshairs over data collection.  EU antitrust regulators are investigating how Facebook collects and monetizes its data, the European Commission said, opening a second front on top of an existing probe into the social media giant’s online marketplace. “These investigations concern the way data is gathered, processed, used and monetized including for advertising purposes,” the EU...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  12/2/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

U.S. Closes Wireless Collusion Investigation With No Charges.  The Justice Department said Wednesday that it had ended an investigation into possible coordination among AT&T, Verizon and a standards-setting organization to make it more difficult for people to switch wireless carriers. The agency said the...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  11/25/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

Justice Dept. to Abolish Movie Distribution Rules Dating to 1949. The Justice Department says that it plans to overturn antitrust-related movie distribution rules from the early days of Hollywood, citing an entertainment landscape that has been radically reshaped by technology. “We cannot pretend that...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  11/18/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

Visa discloses FTC probe on debit transactions.  Visa Inc. on Thursday said the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has initiated an inquiry into whether the payments processor’s actions prohibited merchants from using other debit payment networks. Bloomberg Law reported on Wednesday the regulator was...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  11/11/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

U.S. Justice Dept sets up anti-price collusion 'strike force.'  The Justice Department said on Tuesday it had created a strike force that will identify and prosecute companies that fix prices or collude to push up the cost of billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. government purchases. The announcement...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  11/4/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

Facebook in EU antitrust crosshairs, online marketplace now under scrutiny. Facebook’s online marketplace has attracted scrutiny from EU antitrust regulators who are seeking details about its role vis-a-vis rivals in online classified ads, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed. Launched in 2016,...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  10/28/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

47 Attorneys General Back Antitrust Probe Into Facebook.  Facebook's latest foes: nearly every U.S. state. A state-level antitrust investigation into the social networking giant now has the backing of a bipartisan group of 47 attorneys general, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday. The...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  10/21/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

Sutter Health to Settle Antitrust Lawsuit.  A tentative settlement was announced on Wednesday in a case against Sutter Health, the sprawling hospital system in Northern California accused of anti-competitive behavior, just as the trial was to begin. The class-action lawsuit, which was brought by the...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  10/14/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

State attorney general group probing Facebook could expand to 40: source.  An estimated 40 U.S. state attorneys general will participate in a probe of Facebook Inc, a source said, suggesting many more states want allegations of anticompetitive practices at the social media company investigated. The probe...				 
				 				
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Posted  10/7/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

Exclusive: Antitrust probers in Congress ask Spotify to detail alleged Apple abuses – sources.  U.S. lawmakers have requested information from Apple critic Spotify as part of an antitrust probe, according to two sources briefed on the investigation into allegations the iPhone maker engages in...				 
				 					 

						
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