Google has lodged its legal appeal against the European Commission’s €4.34 billion (~$5BN) antitrust ruling against its Android mobile OS, according to Reuters — the first step in a process that could keep its lawyers busy for years to come. “We have now filed our appeal of the EC’s Android decision at the General Court of the […]
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EU antitrust regulator eyeing Amazon’s use of merchant data
The European Union’s competition commission is looking into how Amazon uses data from retailers selling via its ecommerce marketplace, Reuters reports. Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager revealed the action today during a press conference. “We are gathering information on the issue and we have sent quite a number of questionnaires to market participants in order to […]
View More EU antitrust regulator eyeing Amazon’s use of merchant dataHate speech, collusion, and the constitution
Half an hour into their two-hour testimony on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were asked about collaboration between social media companies. “Our collaboration has greatly increased,” Sandberg stated before turning to Dorsey and adding that Facebook has “always shared information with other companies.” Dorsey nodded […]
View More Hate speech, collusion, and the constitutionAlphabet earnings and the jaws of antitrust
It pays to be a monopolist. Alphabet’s earnings were stellar, and that is truly saying something. Just a few weeks ago, the European Union placed a record €4.34 billion fine on the Mountain View-based company, a penalty for the company’s payments to OEMs to include Google Search as the default search option in order to […]
View More Alphabet earnings and the jaws of antitrustEU fines Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixing
The European Union’s antitrust authorities have issued a series of penalties, fining consumer electronics companies Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer more than €110 million (~$130M) in four separate decisions for imposing fixed or minimum resale prices on their online retailers in breach of EU competition rules. It says the four companies engaged in so called […]
View More EU fines Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixingTrump just noticed Europe’s $5BN antitrust fine for Google
In other news bears shit in the woods. In today’s second day Trump news: President ‘The Donald’ has seized, belatedly, on the European Commission’s announcement yesterday that it had found Google guilty of three types of illegal antitrust behavior with its Android OS since 2011 and was fining the company $5 billion; a record breaking penalty […]
View More Trump just noticed Europe’s $5BN antitrust fine for GoogleGoogle gets slapped $5BN by EU for Android antitrust abuse
Google has been fined a record breaking €4.34 billion (~$5BN) by European antitrust regulators for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system. Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has tweeted to confirm the penalty ahead of a press conference about to take place. Stay tuned for more details as we get them. Fine of €4,34 […]
View More Google gets slapped $5BN by EU for Android antitrust abuseCourt approves merger of AT&T and Time Warner
United States District Court Judge Richard J. Leon has ruled in favor of AT&T in the government’s antitrust suit to block AT&T’s proposed merger with Time Warner . That decision matches word on the street over the past few weeks, and delivers a stern rebuke to the Trump administration, which had opposed the deal from […]
View More Court approves merger of AT&T and Time WarnerTrump should invest in Amazon, not destroy it
For those who live under a rock (which, these days, I would recommend), President Donald Trump has become increasingly belligerent towards Amazon and its founder, Jeff Bezos. In addition to a sequence of tweets against the ecommerce and cloud giant , Gabriel Sherman reported in Vanity Fair yesterday that “Now, according to four sources close […]
View More Trump should invest in Amazon, not destroy itThe nuanced challenges of antitrust and AT&T-Time Warner
It’s been almost eighteen months since the boards of AT&T and Time Warner unanimously voted to sign an agreement to merge their two companies together and create a content and distribution powerhouse. That deal, pegged at $108 billion including debt from Time Warner, would be among the largest corporate mergers in American history. The U.S. […]
View More The nuanced challenges of antitrust and AT&T-Time WarnerGoogle fined $21.1M for search bias in India
Another antitrust fine for Google. India’s competition commission has issued a 1.36BN rupees (~$21.1M) penalty on the search giant for abusing its dominant position in the local search market for online general web search and web search advertising services. Read More
German antitrust office starts asking questions about online ad platform giants
Germany’s national competition regulator has announced it’s looking into market conditions in the online advertising sector, responding to concerns that a lack of transparency could be skewing market conditions. Read More