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It can’t prevent Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard, but the U.S. FTC will nonetheless hold an internal trial on the topic.
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The U.S. FTC today sued Amazon.com for illegally maintaining its monopoly power by harming competition and consumers. 17 U.S. states joined the FTC in its lawsuit.
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The United States v. Google antitrust trial opened today, and it’s already provided the type of revelation I was hoping for.
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Next week, Google will face off against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in a milestone antitrust trial with strong echoes of the past. The DOJ is involved in an antitrust trial against a technology juggernaut? Now what does that remind us of?
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The CEO of Zoom has publicly asked the U.S. FTC to require Microsoft to unbundle Teams from Microsoft/Office 365 in the United States.
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European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager announced today that she is stepping down temporarily so she can pursue a new job.
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As I observed in Nice Guy (Premium), Microsoft’s approach to antitrust in recent years is quite a bit different than it was when the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was trying to break up the company and European Commission (EC) regulators were forcin… Continue reading Win-Win? (Premium)
The EU said today that it would determine whether Microsoft’s new UK concessions represent a reneging of its own deal with the software giant.
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With the UK Competition and Markets Authority CMA unexpectedly pushing back against Microsoft’s admittedly concession-free “material changes” in its Activision Blizzard acquisition, the software giant, finally, has blinked. And it is now offering a com… Continue reading Pushback (Premium)
After publishing Microsoft’s list of “material changes” on Monday, The UK CMA is giving the public four days to provide it with feedback.
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