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It’s the beginning of a new year for some of us, so let me wish all of you a good year, and a sweet year, even if you don’t know what I’m talking about. Private Anticompetitive Censorship Continued? Turning back to the agency beat: in a Sept. 7 guest essay in The New York Times, ... Antitrust at the Agencies: Happy New Year 5786 Edition The post Antitrust at the Agencies: Happy New Year 5786 Edition appeared first on Truth on the Market.| Truth on the Market
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Tying its various advertising tech services together has allowed Google to snare roughly 20% of each dollar that moves through its platforms. The post Is Google’s Ad Tech Biz Ripe for the Breaking? appeared first on The Daily Upside.| The Daily Upside
Is a divestiture of Google’s publisher ad server and ad exchange products is necessary – or impossible? During day two of the remedies phase of the DOJ's ad tech antitrust trial, both sides went through a grueling back-and-forth about the fug=ture of Google Ad Manager. The post DOJ v. Google: Judge Brinkema Calls For Less Ad Tech “Window Dressing” In The AdX And DFP Divestiture Debate appeared first on AdExchanger.| AdExchanger
Court is back in session. And the fate of the open internet is in the balance. US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled in April that Google operates an illegal monopoly in two markets where competition has been “anemic” and “stifled,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ): the display publisher ad server market and […] The post DOJ v. Google: During Opening Arguments, The DOJ And Google Battle Over An AdX Divestiture appeared first on AdExchanger.| AdExchanger
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The European Commission president appears to be winning the U.S. president’s ear on Ukraine, but that comes at a price.| POLITICO
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Just weeks after Skydance Media completed its acquisition of Paramount Global, the new company is reportedly preparing a majority cash bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) in its entirety, including its cable networks and movie studio. A Skydance-Warner combination could reshape the global entertainment landscape. Backed by Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison’s substantial family ... Scale or Fail: Why Paramount Skydance’s Warner Bros Gambit Makes Economic Sense The post Scale o...| Truth on the Market
A recurring claim among a certain breed of would-be antitrust reformers—most recently given voice by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) during a June hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee—is that “big is bad.” The claim suffers first and foremost from conceptual ambiguity. Big in what sense? Market share? Revenue? Headcount? Asset size? Geographic scope? ... Big Isn’t Necessarily Bad The post Big Isn’t Necessarily Bad appeared first on Truth on the Market.| Truth on the Market
The European Commission’s €2.95 billion decision against Google arrives amid heightened EU-U.S. trade tensions, the Trump administration’s recent criticism of EU tech regulations, internal disagreements within the Commission, and heated commentary on both sides of the Atlantic. But beyond geopolitics, the decision also raises important legal and policy questions. In particular, the Commission’s apparent request ... The EU’s Google Adtech Decision: Structural Remedies by Stealth? The...| Truth on the Market
Cartel collusion among competitors is widely seen as the “supreme evil of antitrust,” and for more than three decades, competition-law enforcers in the United States and abroad have cooperated to ferret out cartel activity. Beginning in the 1990s, major jurisdictions started to emphasize highly effective “leniency” agreements to get cartel members to inform on their ... Paying Whistleblowers to Take Down Cartels The post Paying Whistleblowers to Take Down Cartels appeared first on Tru...| Truth on the Market
The “user-side” search-query data remedy carved out by U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta in the just handed-down U.S. v Google decision appears to be animated by a similar intuition (search quality depends on large volumes of click-and-query signals) as the EU Digital Markets Act’s Article 6(11), but they also diverge in important ways. Where ... Comparing the EU DMA to the Search-Query Data-Sharing Remedy in US v Google| Truth on the Market
Explore the latest in antitrust news, including Elon Musk's lawsuit against Apple and the implications of recent Google rulings.| Platformonomics
Paris has decided that 2025 is the year to crack down on “autopréférence,” with the Autorité de la Concurrence opening a public consultation in June under France’s new law “to secure and regulate the digital space.” The inquiry asks interested parties to identify cases where a cloud-computing service provider treats its own software better than ... Self-Preferencing Isn’t a Sin. It’s Often the Way Competition Works.| Truth on the Market
In an Aug. 15 announcement, the White House and U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) pledged to undertake “an effort to identify State laws that significantly and adversely impact the national economy or interstate economic activity and to solicit solutions to address such effects.” This project complements the White House’s earlier April 9 executive order directing the federal antitrust agencies ... New Regulatory Reform Initiative Could Bolster Trade Negotiations The post New Regulatory R...| Truth on the Market
Charter Communications Inc. and Cox Communications Inc.—both providers of cable and broadband—are seeking approval of their proposed merger from the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC). While the prior administration’s enforcement agencies—who often relied on static market-share snapshots to pursue antitrust claims and failed to consider broader market dynamics—might have sued to block this ... Charter/Cox Merger Review and the Rule of Law The...| Truth on the Market
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Some of our favorite characters continue to work hard this summer. News AI Mulligan Taker Meta Takes Another Mulligan Can’t wait to hear Meta’s AI strategy (vs. […]| Platformonomics
The DOJ blocked Spirit's merger with JetBlue in 2022 over concerns about market consolidation, but markets also consolidate when failing firms go bankrupt and exit.| Reason.com
In a surprising move, the U.S. Justice Department’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division has thrown its weight behind a lawsuit that could reshape how courts—and antitrust enforcers—think about competition in digital media. The agency’s statement of interest filed last month in Children’s Health Defense v. Washington Post doesn’t merely take up the legal merits of a questionable ... Truth Cartels? The DOJ’s Misguided Leap into Viewpoint Regulation The post Truth Cartels? The DOJ’s Misguid...| Truth on the Market
A recent report prepared for NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association by the Brattle Group paints a troubling picture of the U.S. wireless-infrastructure industry. But a closer look at the report’s narrative demonstrates that it is built on faulty premises, misapplied economics, and a failure to connect the dots. While the report serves as a ... Claims of Monopsony in the Wireless Industry Don’t Add Up The post Claims of Monopsony in the Wireless Industry Don’t ...| Truth on the Market
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"Trump administration approves sale of CBS parent company Paramount after concessions" —NPR| Free Association
A U.S. appeals court has affirmed that Google's Play Store is an illegal monopoly. Google plans to appeal to the Supreme Court in the landmark antitrust case.| WinBuzzer
Opera has filed an antitrust complaint in Brazil against Microsoft, accusing it of using its Windows dominance to unfairly promote the Edge browser and limit user choice.| WinBuzzer
La semaine dernière, le Département de la Justice déposait plainte contre Google pour pratiques anticoncurrentielles.| Siècle Digital
The federal antitrust agencies appear to be easing up on merger enforcement, ditching a Biden administration policy of discouraging mergers. This change in direction could promote enhanced American innovation and economic growth. M&A Economic Benefits Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) generate various major economic benefits: They reallocate badly managed commercial assets to higher-valued uses, raising business ... M&A Enforcement Easing Under the Trump Administration The post M&A Enforcement E...| Truth on the Market
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) Antitrust Division filed a statement of interest late last week in a private antitrust case brought against a number of major news publishers by, among others, the Children’s Health Defense—the organization previously chaired by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Nominally, the DOJ’s statement can be ... Antitrust and Collusion on Regulating Misinformation: Thoughts on the DOJ’s Statement of Interest The post Antitrust an...| Truth on the Market
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently launched a public inquiry into technology platform censorship. Digital-platform censorship clearly raises serious policy concerns. Nevertheless, before filing lawsuits, the FTC and its fellow enforcement agency, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) will need to factor in platforms’ First Amendment protections and limitations on agency statutory authority. Bringing platform-censorship cases may ... Competition Law and Technology-Platform Censorship T...| Truth on the Market
つまり彼らは経済の癌なのだ。乳がん患者の味方であるはずがないのも、実に納得がいく。 The post 「社会の癌」と化す医療保険会社 first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
現在、MSGはソーシャルメディアを調査して同社を批判した一般人を特定し、*その人々の*顔を出入り禁止データベースに追加している。 The post 民間セクターのトランピズム first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
大統領就任式の壇上でトランプの背後に美しい半円を描くように並んだApple、Google、Facebook、Amazon、Tiktokの各CEOの姿。この光景は、テクノロジー企業が民主主義（あるいは民主党）の味方であるというオバマ時代の幻想に最後の楔を打ち込むものだった。 The post トランプはビッグテックを愛している first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
The writing is on the wall. Should John Deere choose to defend itself in court rather than attempt to reach a settlement, it very much may be handed a massive spanking by the Justice Department, which alleges the company’s repair restrictions violate federal and state antitrust laws. See here, here and here. In a nutshell, […]| Investigate Midwest
This class action alleges that 26 nuclear power companies conspired to exchange confidential information about and depress the compensation of their employees in violation of the federal antitrust laws. The post Nuclear Power Employees’ Compensation first appeared on Handley Farah Anderson Law Firm.| Handley Farah Anderson Law Firm
In recent weeks, the global independent community has come together to express More The post European Commission to open detailed investigation into UMG/Downtown acquisition appeared first on WIN.| WIN
Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) and Interpublic (NYSE: IPG) today announced the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has granted clearance for Omnicom’s pending acquisition of Interpublic. The post Omnicom and Interpublic Clear Australia Antitrust Review appeared first on Omnicom Group.| Omnicom Group
Only in the United States is gutting a world-leading firm seen as a policy win. No other government would be insane enough to attack its own national champions the way American antitrust enforcers do.| www.policyarena.org
Petitions for rehearings en banc are rarely granted, and a petition by Michael Jordan's 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports for one has been denied.| Sportico.com
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is taking significant steps to update its approach to merger control following both the coming into force of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act on 1 January 2025 and the most recent strategic steer from the UK government. While the DMCC Act expanded the CMA’s merger […]| Cooley M&A
In the US, the election of Donald Trump for a second term has significant implications for antitrust enforcement at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). New leadership is expected to implement an agenda that hews more closely to traditional antitrust norms but will be an aggressive […]| Cooley M&A
The Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act thresholds, which determine whether mergers and acquisitions must be reported to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), will increase by nearly 6% in February 2025. The key minimum “size-of-transaction” threshold will increase from $119.5 million to $126.4 million. These annual adjustments, announced by the FTC on […]| Cooley M&A
As the new European Commission (EC) assumes office for the 2024 – 2029 term, in-house legal counsel across industries must brace for an evolving regulatory environment that promises to influence the landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). With significant shifts in priorities – from sustainability to strategic autonomy – and a new College of Commissioners, […]| Cooley M&A
On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a unanimous 5-0 vote to finalize changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification program, including changes to the HSR form and associated instructions, with the Department of Justice (DOJ) concurring with the final rule. Under the HSR Act, parties to transactions are required to notify the FTC […]| Cooley M&A
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint and proposed consent decree alleging that Legends Hospitality Parent Holdings prematurely acquired beneficial ownership – often referred to as “gun jumping” – in connection with its proposed acquisition of ASM Global. The proposed final judgment requires Legends, a global venue services company providing food and beverage services in stadiums and […]| Cooley M&A
La Commissione Europea ha inflitto una sanzione di 489.000 euro all'azienda farmaceutica Alchem International per aver fatto cartello sul prezzo del principio attivo del Buscopan, dal 2005 al 2018| il Salvagente
Back in October, I asked a simple but unresolved question: “Who represents you in the AI copyright suits?” Now, eight months later, we’re getting closer to an answer—at least for some authors. In B…| Authors Alliance
The European Commission initiated last week a consultation[1] intended to inform the first review of the EC Horizontal Merger Guidelines since 2004 (!) and of the Vertical Merger Guidelines since 2008. While Guidelines (at least in Europe) are always just that, a sense for the direction of travel rather than prescriptive roadmaps (in no case […]| The “Post-Bubble” Blog
The past week has seen two major antitrust policy speeches given in the US by the new head of the Antitrust Division, Gail Slater, and newly confirmed FTC Commissioner Mark Meador: AAG Slater gave her Remarks on “The Conservative Roots of America First Antitrust Enforcement”[1] at Notre Dame Law School (home of her Principal Deputy, […]| The “Post-Bubble” Blog
Antitrust Review Episode 39: In Conversation With Cristina Caffarra | Cleary Antitrust Watch| The “Post-Bubble” Blog
Apple: The European Commission has required Apple to make a series of additional changes under the Digital Markets Act: […] The wording of this sentence makes it sound like the list of specific policies following it were dictated by the European Commission, but I am not sure that is true. John Voorhees, MacStories: Fees have changed for […]| pxlnv.com
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FTC v. Meta Platforms Inc. has gone to court, and trial is just underway in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges that Meta is currently, in 2025, engaged in monopolization in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by dint of having acquired Instagram ... The FTC’s Zombie Antitrust Action Against Meta Continues to Lurch Forward| Truth on the Market
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Despite Apple positioning itself as a force for good, the company’s App Store policies and grudging compliance with court orders reveal a company prioritizing profits over developer partnerships. Now is the time for Apple to realign the less attractive aspects of its corporate behavior with its values of excellence and care.| TidBITS
A group of trade associations representing European retailers reportedly asked the European Commission to take action against Mastercard and Visa under| PYMNTS.com
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email -Onomics continues to …| Platformonomics
While the DMA may be motivated by Europe’s commitment to its long-held ordoliberal model of competition policy, its disproportionate effects on U.S. firms are intentional.| itif.org
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Lots of database vampi…| Platformonomics
Tennessee first baseman Alberto Osuna lost his bid for a temporary restraining order to play this spring but will have another shot later this month.| Sportico.com
London - UK antitrust officials have announced an investigation into Google search, marking the first inquiry under a new digital markets regime. The| CCIA
On December 12, 2024, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) authorized its staff to file a complaint against alcohol distributor Southern Glazer’s Wine| Covington Competition
Apple wants the DOJ to dismiss the case it has against it. The decision could come before January.| Android Headlines
Michael Jordan didn't score a preliminary injunction against NASCAR at the trial court level but is now asking the Fourth Circuit to impose one.| Sportico.com
Nestled within the Biden administration’s recent, sweeping Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy is a small, rather oblique paragraph that has garnered little attention to date. Appearing as Section 5(d), it urges the Attorney General and the … The post Biden Administration Signals Reversal Of Delrahim Position on Standards Essential Patents appeared first on ConsortiumInfo.org.| ConsortiumInfo.org
Election Day is here, and while many real estate professionals are likely very attuned to the outcome of national races,| RISMedia
In a court filing on October 9, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) let it be known that it was considering a break-up of Alphabet, with the addendum that it would also be pushing for the company to share the data it collects across its multiple platforms with competitors. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and it is entirely possible that these are threats designed to extract more concessions from the company, but the break-up talk is a continuation of a debate about the ...| Musings on Markets
Individual income taxes are very progressive: In contrast, business taxes are completely flat. The federal corporate income tax rate is a flat 21%. Which means that: In fact, the truth is even more weird. The bigger a corporation, the more lawyers and accountants they can hire in order to perform tax wizardry, apply for tax … Continue reading The Best Way to Break Up Mega-Corporations: Progressive Taxes→| Outlook Zen
The European Commission’s draft guidelines on exclusionary abusive conduct by dominant firms under Article 102 TFEU (the “Draft Guidelines”) were| Covington Competition
L’autorité administrative a estimé que cette acquisition n’entraînerait qu’une “modification limitée de la structure de la...-Téléphonie mobile| www.usine-digitale.fr
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Antitrust regulators should block natural monopolies from acquiring their biggest threats: new potential monopolies Photo: Lionel Bonaventure/Getty Images “All happy companies are different: each o…| Zander Nethercutt