ANTITRUST popularity and ANTITRUST trends

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice accused Apple and a number of other large U.S. publishers of conspiring to fix eBook prices and filed an antitrust lawsuit. While most of the publishers quickly settled the lawsuit, Apple decided to fight. Earlier this week, as Ars Technica reports today, Apple responded (PDF) to the government's accusations. Apple doesn't mince words in its response. ...

MasterCard Inc has lost a court challenge seeking to overturn a European Union decision that the company’s cross-border card fees violated antitrust rules.

Is $1.14 billion an “unnecessary, unlawful and totally disproportionate" fine? Tune in next month.

(Reuters) - Apple Inc is rejecting charges that it conspired to fix prices of electronic books, calling the U.S. government's antitrust lawsuit a "fundamentally flawed" endeavor that could discourage competition and harm consumers.

The pre-charge settlement talks are an important turning point for the technology group which is facing mounting antitrust scrutiny worldwide

Fluffeh writes "The EU has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in advertising to benefit its own advertising services at the expense of competitors. In a twist however, rather than initiating formal proceedings, the EU has given Google a chance to settle the whole matter without much fuss. They outlined four changes that Google can make that will put it firmly back in the good grace...

Google stands accused of boosting its ad services while suppressing rival ad vendors

The European Commission said Google might have abused its dominant position in online search but gave the company a chance to settle without facing formal charges.

Concerns center on how Google deals with search results, how content is used and how advertising is run.

The European Commission is giving Google a “matter of weeks” to settle an ongoing antitrust case by changing several of its business…

In a scolding letter sent to Google on Monday, European regulators outlined their "concerns" about Google's business practices, giving the search giant "a matter of weeks" to shape up or pay up.

European Union anti-trust chiefs said Monday they had asked Google to come up with "remedies" to satisfy Brussels concerns the Internet search king has abused its dominant market position.

The European Commission said Google might have abused its dominant position in online search but gave the company a chance to settle without facing formal charges.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union says Google Inc. must in `'a matter of weeks" outline steps it is willing to take to ease concerns about alleged abuses of its dominant position in the online search market....

Les autorités européennes ont offert à Google une opportunité de régler à l'amiable l'enquête ouverte sur les soupçons d'abus de position dominante après des plaintes de Microsoft et de plusieurs autres concurrents, a déclaré lundi Joaquin Almunia, le commissaire à la Concurrence. "J'accorde...

China's anti-trust authorities have approved Google Inc.'s acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. with conditions.

BRUSSELS, May 16 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators will decide by Aug. 31 instead of Aug. 9 whether to clear a bid by U.S. conglomerate United Technologies Corp to buy U.S. aircraft components...

According to Best Lawyers — “the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession” — Emmet Bondurant “is the go-to lawyer when a business person just can’t afford to lose a lawsuit.” He was its 2010 Lawyer of the Year for Antitrust and Bet-the-Company Litigation. But now, he’s bitten off something even bigger: bet-the-country litigation. Read full article >> ...

The Federal Trade Commission has started an antitrust probe of the $1billion deal for Facebook to takeover photo-sharing app Instagram, it has been revealed.

India's antitrust agency is flexing its muscles, with new investigations of Apple and Google and a request for greater powers, presenting more challenges for firms that want to do business in the country.

ICM filed a motion to dismiss Manwin’s complaint for Anti-Trust on the .XXX extension for a second time yesterday. (You can read the motion to dismiss again here). Here are some of the highlights of the Motion to Dismiss: “”Even though it is their second try, Plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint fails to state a claim and should be dismissed.” “The Amend Complaint is (like the original Complaint...

Google has yet again managed to slip into the dirty pit of antitrust probe after Chennai based Consim Info that runs the match-making site Bharatmatrimony.com, filed a case against the largest search engine provider of the world.

Jon Leibowitz is the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to his tenure at the FTC, Leibowitz served as the democratic chief counsel and...

MILAN, April 27 (Reuters) - An antitrust probe into a planned merger between loss-making Italian insurer Fondiaria-SAI and peer Unipol does not compromise its 1.1 billion euro cash call due in June,...

The FTC has signaled it means business in its proceedings against Google for antitrust violations. For the first time in five years, the agency has hired an outside litigator to lead their prosecution—no, it's not Harvey Birdman. More »

Anti-trust body Competition Commission of India (CCI) has launched an investigation against online search engine Google to ascertain whether it has abused its dominant position and indulged in discriminatory trade practices  as claimed by Chennai-based Consim India Pvt Ltd, which owns the matrimonial Website, bharatmatrimony.com.

Today, Tor Books, the largest science fiction publisher in the world, announced that henceforth all of its ebooks would be completely DRM-free. This comes six weeks after an antitrust action against Tor's parent company, Macmillan USA, for price-fixing in relation to its arrangements with Apple and Amazon. Now that there is a major publisher that [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swiss food group Nestle SA may sell about 10 to 15 percent of the $11.9 billion baby food business it is buying from Pfizer Inc to address antitrust concerns, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.

The goverment didn't have much choice but to file its e-books lawsuit against publishers and Apple, antitrust scholars say.

Apple, Google, Intel and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally agreed not to poach each other's employees.

Justice Dept. trustbusters should've left Apple and book publishers alone.The Justice Department filed suit last week againstApple Inc.and two major book publishers, Macmillan and Penguin Group USA, accusing them of colluding in 2010 to raise the prices of e-books. Three other publishers that were investigated — Hachette, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins — agreed to a settlement, which Sh...

Apple (AAPL) has responded to the Department of Justice's antitrust charges of colluding with book publishers, claiming the accusations are not true. "The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry," the company said in a statement. "Since then customers have benefited from eBooks that are more interactive...

Company will soon be able to resume its deep discounting and maintain its role as the market leader

The big publishing news this week is the US Department of Justice bringing an anti-trust suit against the major book publishers and Apple for allegedly colluding to force the "agency model" of ebook pricing on Amazon and other retailers, resulting in higher prices for consumers. I already links dumped an article about the detailed charges, and three of the six companies involved have agreed to ...

Shares of Amazon.com (AMZN) are up $1.68, or 0.9%, at $189.65, while Apple (AAPL) shares are up 7 cents at $626.27 a day after the U.S. Department of Justice's anti-trust division filed suit against Apple and a group of five of the top six U.S. trade book publishers for hatching a conspiracy to break Amazon's practice of undercutting e-...

What's buzzing in the books world today? The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against major publishers.

Les autorités américaines de la concurrence ont lancé mercredi des...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. government filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and various major book publishers Wednesday, saying the publishers conspired with Apple to raise retail electronic-book prices to limit competition....

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether marketing support and airport charges deals between Ryanair and operators at France's Carcassonne airport gave the Irish...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union's competition watchdog says it has opened two investigations into whether Motorola Mobility, which is being bought by Google, is unfairly restricting competitors from accessing essential patents....

China continues to add broadband subscribers at a rate of about 30M per year. MIIT puts the January growth at 2.5M to a total of 152.5M. Of those, about 1.5M were DSL. They don't release fiber counts, but Jeff Heynen of Infonetics is reporting tens of millions of lines of fiber gear are in the pipeline. China has been consistently at 2-3M net adds per month. Two key policy moves are likely to...

EU antitrust regulators opened an in-depth investigation into a bid by Vivendi’s Universal Music to buy EMI’s recorded music unit for $1.9 billion, saying the proposed deal could reduce competition to the detriment of consumers.

AT&T bet $4 billion it could purchase rival T-Mobile USA without interference from antitrust regulators. It lost. Now, Vivendi's Universal Music Group is making a similar wager that could prove even more painful.

Ryanair's tense relationship with the European Commission took another turn for the worse yesterday when anti-trust officials re-opened an investigation into allegedly illegal state aid payments to the low cost carrier.

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ISLAMABAD - The CCP has earned yet another international recognition as it has become the first regulatory authority from South Asia to be short listed by the Global Competition Review for the Enforcement Award in the category ‘Agency of the Year - Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa’ for 2012. The London-based Global Competition Review (GCR) is the world’s leading anti-trust ...

Apple is one of several handset makers that have reportedly been subpoenaed as part of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust probe into Google. According to Bloomberg, two unnamed “people familiar with the matter” have said that the agency is seeking answers about how Google’s search engine is used on the iPhone and iPad. The request is reportedly asking for documentation including the dea...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - German healthcare conglomerate Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy Liberty Dialysis Holdings Inc, provided it sells 60 dialysis clinics, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.

Internet giant Google Inc launched Google+ in June last year, pitting it against Facebook, the world's biggest social network, and Twitter, among others.

Japan's Yazaki Corporation and Denso Corporation agree to plead guilty for fixing prices of auto parts supplied to US manufacturers.

La Commission européenne annonce avoir lancé une enquête antitrust à propos de l'alliance transatlantique entre Air France-KLM, Alitalia et Delta…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - William Baer, a widely respected antitrust veteran, is the White House's top choice to head the Justice Department's antitrust division, legal sources said.

EU regulators will decide by March whether to file an antitrust complaint against Google, potentially ending the squabble sooner than expected.

China's Ministry of Commerce received 203 antitrust filings in 2011, up 49 percent year-on-year, and launched investigations into 185 cases, a rise of 57 percent, a senior official said Friday.

The investigation was opened before the start of the cottage-cheese boycott last summer.

A federal judge on Monday agreed to delay the Justice Department’s challenge to the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA.

EU's antitrust watchdog is probing whether Apple helped five major publishing houses illegally raise prices for e-books when it launched its iPad tablet and iBookstore in 2010.

The European Union's antitrust watchdog is investigating whether consumers are paying higher prices for their novels because of 'illegal practices' which restrict competition in the market.

Jan Vesely will remain in the Czech Republic for another week, possibly until at least the day before Wizards training camp is set to begin, while he waits for the NBA lockout to get lifted in order to acquire a work visa. Owners and players may have reached a tentative settlement on their antitrust lawsuit that will allow training camps to begin on Dec. 9. But Alexander Raskovic, one of Vese...

Microsoft's Bill Gates returned to the witness stand Tuesday to defend his company against a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit that claims the software giant tricked a competitor into huge losses and soared onto the market with Windows 95.

The NBA players merged their two anti-trust lawsuits against the league into one on Monday in an effort to speed up the judicial process, local media reported.

(Reuters) - The NBA players merged their two anti-trust lawsuits against the league into one on Monday in an effort to speed up the judicial process, local media reported.

Novell sued Microsoft in 2004 for antitrust abuse.

NBA players and owners haven't met since their 11-hour negotiating session on Nov. 10, when the league offered a revised proposal (including a 50-50 split of revenues) and an ultimatum (take it or receive a worse offer). A lot has changed since then: Players refused the offer, dissolved the union, filed two antitrust suits against the league and had another two weeks stripped from their regular...

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An overdue antitrust suit by the F.T.C. against Intel could finally open the door to increased innovation from rival firms.