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South Korean auditor questions KFTC's cartel leniency, fine calculations, case handling
South Korea’s competition regulator was faulted by the country’s audit watchdog over some core parts of its enforcement work, with auditors flagging loopholes in ca... (more story)
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Philippine digital platform study urges privacy integration into competition law
A market study by the Philippine Competition Commission recommends integrating data privacy considerations into the Philippine Competition Act and strengthening coo... (more story)
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US DOJ's Assefi vows to reject 'half-measures,' wants more civil antitrust cases
Omeed Assefi, who took over as the acting chief at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division for a second time, and in an address to staff on Tuesday sought to d... (more story)
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The Brazilian Competition Tribunal upheld on Wednesday the preventive measure that requires Meta to suspend its new WhatsApp Business API terms that would effectively block external artificial‑intelligence pro... (more story)
The potential for AI chatbots to evolve into a “gateway” for access to internet services will be addressed in French conclusions in “late June or early July,” according to a senior official at the national com... (more story)
A proposed UK collective claim targeting salmon production companies Mowi, SalMar, Lerøy, Scottish Sea Farms and Grieg over cartelized pricing must advance to trial, a judge was told Wednesday by the suit's cl... (more story)
The trial of a UK mass claim against Motorola Solutions over alleged inflated prices paid by emergency services for its Airwave telecom network is proposed as scheduled to start in June next year, the UK compe... (more story)
Hotels will have to demonstrate “more clearly” that they suffered damage due to contractual clauses used by Booking between 2006 and 2016 for their claim to succeed, an Amsterdam court has ruled. The portal is... (more story)
The European Commission is moving forward its search for the new director-general of its powerful competition department, agreeing Wednesday to publish an ad for the position, MLex has learned. Olivier Guersen... (more story)
“Late rebidding” by electricity generators Stanwell and CS Energy was a deliberate choice designed to maximize price spikes rather than a routine response to changing market conditions, Stillwater Pastoral tol... (more story)
Japan’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Microsoft over a potential violation of the Antimonopoly Act in connection with its Azure cloud computing service practices, and on Wednesday cal... (more story)
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President Lee Jae Myung’s aggressive rhetoric on collusion and pricing can be read as a politically understandable push to restore market order and relieve pressure on households. But for the Korea Fair Trade ... (more story)
The US Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in a price-fixing case over Circana’s PotatoTrack product, maintaining a focus on anticompetitive information sharing and further clarifying the condi... (more story)
The US Department of Justice and US Federal Trade Commission’s joint inquiry over potential reissuance of guidance on collaboration between competitors is a green light for heavy lobbying from the antitrust ba... (more story)
US policymakers have shown an increased interest in standard-essential patents (SEPs) in recent months, as stakeholders tell MLex that 2026 will be critical for both patent owners and standard implementers. Wi... (more story)
Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act was meant to be a tougher answer to years of frustration with Apple and Google’s grip over the country’s $16.5 billion app market. But the first compliance reports under... (more story)
Germany’s top court backed VoiceAge in its standard essential patent dispute with HMD, ruling that companies must provide prompt financial security to rely on EU antitrust defenses. Judges rejected a rigid rea... (more story)
Uncertainty has arisen after Councilor Victor Oliveira Fernandes left the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) three months before concluding his term, and more resignations by top officials are ... (more story)
The first legislation to emerge from the California Law Revision Commission’s review of state competition laws would broaden California’s primary antitrust statute, the Cartwright Act, to cover anticompetitive... (more story)