Does anybody remember Napster? Launched in June 1999, the revolutionary peer-to-peer music sharing platform peaked at 80 million music lovers worldwide. It famously fell from greatness into bankruptcy three years later after…
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President Trump has directed his foreign investment agency to conduct a fresh national security review of Nippon Steel’s proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The proposed $14 billion…
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/ Elections & Politics, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions
The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved the proposed merger of American Express Global Business Travel Group (Amex GBT) and Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT Holdings LLC), a global travel and…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Law & Trade
The Department of Justice and 39 state attorneys general have revised proposed remedies they say will restore competition in the internet search engine market dominated by Google via an “illegal monopoly,” as they successfully…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Science, Computers, & Technology
The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and state antitrust authorities have plausibly alleged that Live Nation engaged in illegal tying and coercion of performing artists, a federal judge in the Southern District of…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Civil Procedure, Mergers & Acquisitions
Advertisers began pulling their ads from the microblogging site, then called Twitter, shortly after Elon Musk took the company over in October 2022. Within a month at least six major companies had stopped advertising on the…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications & Media Law, Elections & Politics
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and State Democratic Senator Melissa Hurtado want a bigger hammer to enforce California’s Cartwright Act, a key tool in prosecuting antitrust cases. The bill, SB 763, would raise the maximum…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Business Torts, Consumer Protection
Senators urge investigation of companies that share 80% of the online gambling market. In the lead-up to Super Bowl LIX fans were busily restocking their stores of face-paint, sharing recipes, and locking down their daily…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
A suit brought by state attorneys general accusing Google of overseeing a broad scheme of anticompetitive conduct in digital display advertising markets will continue following a Jan. 28, 2025, ruling from the Eastern District…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Science, Computers, & Technology
In the closing days of the Biden administration, antitrust law enforcers issued cautions to employers about conduct that could draw criminal charges against them. One is the use of restrictive non-disclosure agreements that…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law
Government credits HSR pre-merger notification program with halting anticompetitive deals. Companies planning mergers and acquisitions tend to avoid challenging the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Business Torts, Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
Case pits newcomer against colossus said to control as much as 80-90% of the market. Particle Health Inc., a young healthcare data platform provider, has filed an antitrust complaint against Epic Systems Corp., the dominant…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
Injunction is a victory for Epic Games and other app developers who want alternatives to the Google-controlled app store. Knocking another dent in the shield of Google’s multi-market dominance, U.S. Judge James Donato has…
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The government’s antitrust case against Google’s Search business passed another milestone with the government’s proposal of a remedies “framework” to loosen Google’s monopoly grip on the general search services and search text…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, Science, Computers, & Technology
Exclusionary conduct has been a key to Visa’s success. The Antitrust Division of the Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Visa Inc. in the Southern District of New York yesterday for illegal monopolization…
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