antitrust

Google faces EU fine next year for favouring own services, sources say

[BRUSSELS] Alphabet’s Google is expected to be fined by EU antitrust regulators next year for not doing enough to comply with EU rules against favouring its own services and products in search results...

In a rational world, what matters is whether consumers risk being worse off if Netflix boosts its market share.
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Netflix’s Warner Bros Discovery bid is an antitrust drama without a villain

Expect lawyers to home in on the definition of ‘relevant market’ that best suits their argument

Apple has denied all wrongdoing and the CCI is yet to make a final decision in the case.

Apple contests India’s antitrust penalty law with risk of US$38 billion fine, filing shows

[NEW DELHI] Apple is challenging India’s new antitrust penalty law under which the US company could potentially face a fine of up to US$38 billion, a court filing at the Delhi High Court, seen by Reut...

Judge James Boasberg of the federal district court in Washington concluded that Meta faces sufficient competition from rivals TikTok and YouTube.

Meta wins major antitrust case as US judge rules no monopoly

Ruling represents a setback for US antitrust enforcers who have pursued aggressive action against Big Tech companies

The fresh probe comes after the September fine of almost 3 billion euros against Google, for allegedly favouring its own advertising technology services over rivals.

Google hit by fresh EU probe into suspected news search abuse

There are suspicions that it is pushing down results for publishers’ websites when they include content from commercial partners

The take-private deal, unveiled in June, involves a real estate unit owned by group companies making a tender offer for the shares of Toyota Industries.

Toyota Industries 4.7 trillion yen buyout plan faces antitrust delays

The takeover bid is now is not likely to happen until at least February 2026

The lawsuit is Google’s second such test this year after the California-based tech juggernaut saw a similar government demand to split up its empire rejected by a judge earlier this month.

Google fights breakup of ad tech business in US court

GOOGLE faced a fresh federal court test on Monday as US government lawyers asked a judge to order the breakup of the search engine giant’s ad technology business.

Nvidia has found itself wound up in a tense competition between China and the United States for supremacy in the critical field of semiconductors.

Nvidia says complies with law after China antitrust finding

US CHIP giant Nvidia said on Tuesday it follows all laws after a Chinese investigation found it had breached antitrust rules, the latest development in a fierce tech battle between Beijing and Washing...

The European Commission said Google favoured its own online display technology services to the detriment of rivals and online publishers and that it abused its market power since 2014 until today.

Google hit with 2.95-billion-euro EU antitrust fine over adtech practices

[BRUSSELS] Alphabet’s Google was hit with a 2.95-billion-euro (S$4.4 billion) EU antitrust fine on Friday (Sep 5) for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative adtech business, marking its fourth pe...