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Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
N.C.A.A. President Seeks Delay on Vote to Let Students Profit From Fame. The N.C.A.A., confronted with new scrutiny from the Justice Department, on Saturday all but abandoned plans for votes in the coming days that could have allowed student-athletes to profit off their fame, assuredly inflaming a debate...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
Ticketmaster pays $10 million criminal fine for invading rival's computers. Ticketmaster LLC will pay a $10 million criminal fine to avoid prosecution on U.S. charges it repeatedly accessed the computer systems of a rival whose assets its parent Live Nation Entertainment Inc later purchased. The fine is...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
Supreme Court to Rule on N.C.A.A. Limits on Paying College Athletes. The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to decide whether the N.C.A.A. had violated federal antitrust laws by restricting what college athletes could be paid. In May, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
Facebook antitrust cases assigned to U.S. judges named by Obama. Lawsuits filed against Facebook Inc. by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and nearly every U.S. state on Wednesday were assigned to two U.S. judges in Washington appointed by former President Barack Obama, federal court records released...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
Justice Dept. Suit Says Facebook Discriminates Against U.S. Workers. The Justice Department sued Facebook on Thursday, accusing it of being un-American by favoring foreign workers with visas over those from the United States, in a new push against tech companies in the waning days of the Trump...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
EU plans easier access to generics in potential blow to big drugmakers. The European Commission wants to make it easier for patients to access cheaper, generic medicines, a draft EU document seen by Reuters shows, in a move that could cut the revenues of big pharmaceutical firms. The EU executive...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
Facebook probe in final stages as FTC, U.S. states prepare lawsuits. The Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan group of dozens of state attorneys general are in the final stages of filing one or more major antitrust complaints against Facebook Inc. FB.O in early December, according to four sources...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
EU antitrust chief does not see breakup of tech giants: paper. Splitting up large tech companies such as Google and Facebook will not be necessary, Europe’s antitrust chief was quoted as saying. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is due to announce new draft rules for the digital...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
Online giants will have to open ad archives to EU antitrust regulators. Dominant tech companies will have to explain how their algorithms work under proposed new EU rules and also open up their ad archives to regulators and researchers, Europe’s digital and antitrust chief said on Friday. The move is...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
F.T.C. Decision on Pursuing Facebook Antitrust Case Is Said to Be Near. The Federal Trade Commission is moving closer to a decision about filing an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook for its market power in social networking, according to two people with knowledge of the agency’s talks. The five...