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Pepsi worked with Walmart to create price gaps to hurt rivals, US FTC complaint says
Pepsi worked with Walmart to create a retail “price gap” or “price hedge” between the hypermarket chain and its competitors in the resale of Pepsi soft drinks, acco... (more story)
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South Korea's president seeks compulsory investigation powers for antitrust watchdog
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered a review of granting compulsory investigative powers to the country’s antitrust watchdog and other regulators that ... (more story)
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Dream Big Media’s tying claims against Google correctly dismissed, US court rules
Dream Big Media’s tying and exclusive dealing claims against Google over its Google Maps products were correctly dismissed by a federal district court, the US Court... (more story)
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The EU's powerful law against digital gatekeepers could clamp down on bottlenecks in the access to data and infrastructure needed to power AI technology, but there are enforcement gaps and tricky questions aro... (more story)
More Japanese companies have begun accepting higher procurement prices from their suppliers to reflect rising energy, material and labor costs, according to the results of a survey by the country's competition... (more story)
China's State Administration for Market Regulation has released draft compliance guidelines for pricing conduct in the automobile sector to curb disorderly competition and restore fair market conditions. The d... (more story)
Engaging with and using artificial intelligence is essential for regulators because it is becoming critical to how businesses make decisions, an Australian competition official has said. In a webinar, an offic... (more story)
Pepsi worked with Walmart to create a retail “price gap” or “price hedge” between the hypermarket chain and its competitors in the resale of Pepsi soft drinks, according to an unsealed complaint filed by the B... (more story)
A California federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over an alleged antitrust conspiracy involving cannabis oil vaporizing systems said on Friday that he’s been reconsidering a negative “knee-jerk r... (more story)
Microsoft has told a UK judge that a planned UK collective action seeking damages over its cloud licensing operations is invalid because its methodology is defective. The tech giant's arguments wrapped up a tw... (more story)
Meta will appear at a closed-door hearing in Rome on Tuesday, to contest a move by the Italian antitrust authority to temporarily keep AI chatbots on WhatsApp. The meeting, to be attended by investigators, Met... (more story)
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Meta Platforms must explain to enforcers why it opened up WhatsApp to companies large and small a few years ago, only to now expel other companies' AI chatbots that compete with its own Meta AI service. Regula... (more story)
India’s early-December aviation collapse has sparked calls to probe IndiGo for abuse of dominance. Yet the deeper issue is how merger control allowed such extreme market concentration — and why the Competition... (more story)
There is no shortage of interest in an ongoing clash between Ross Intelligence and Thomson Reuters in what could yield the first US appellate ruling on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an arti... (more story)
Japan is recalibrating its industrial policy to safeguard critical technologies and secure domestic supplies of strategic materials, amid escalating geopolitical tensions and widening export controls by major ... (more story)
Consumers who want to unwind the Alaska-Hawaiian Airlines merger have returned to court with an amended lawsuit, telling the judge who rejected their prior effort to block the merger that they have ample proof... (more story)
The Global Disinformation Index, or GDI, has joined Media Matters in asking a US court to curb the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into an alleged advertiser boycott — a challenge that is expected to see simi... (more story)
Business partnerships between Big Tech and AI players of all shapes and sizes offer an easy target for US federal antitrust enforcers who have revived a previously neglected tool for cracking down on anticompe... (more story)
Brazil’s competition authority is moving forward with an investigation into Ericsson’s 5G patent licensing practices after receiving an unexpectedly high volume of market feedback, suggesting the sector may be... (more story)