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Byline: Mark Hollmer Tekion Corp. has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against CDK Global Inc. alleging the segment leader engages in 'a systematic scheme to thwart competition in the franchise [...]

Fubo's antitrust lawsuit against Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is still set to move forward as a federal judge had ruled against the mega media companies' latest bid [...]

The transition period to Donald Trump taking over the White House has not stopped antitrust enforcers from continuing to govern in the twilight hours of the Biden administration. Today, the [...]

Particle Health has raised $10 million from its existing investors, Business Insider has learned. The raise comes shortly after the startup filed an antitrust lawsuit against EHR giant Epic Systems. [...]

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Byline: Adgully Bureau The US Justice Department has concluded its case against Google, arguing that the tech giant illegally monopolized online advertising technology. The government seeks a second antitrust win [...]

Byline: Erich Wagner The General Services Administration is set to institute a new tweak to the rules governing how agencies may reimburse federal workers for expenses associated with relocating for [...]

Byline: Larry P. Vellequette More than a dozen years after the first civil lawsuits were filed in what was at the time one of the largest and most complex antitrust [...]

A U.S. District Court judge has officially denied an application to re-hear a dismissed lawsuit regarding the USD 1.9 billion merger between Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines. This decision, delivered [...]

Microsoft settled on Monday an antitrust lawsuit contesting its $69 billion dollar acquisition deal to buy Activision Blizzard in 2022. Details of the settlement were not disclosed in court documents [...]

America's Department of Justice laid out its proposals for how to deal with https://www.economist.com/business/2024/10/03/will-americas-government-try-to-break-up-google , after a court in August found that the company had acted illegally to maintain a [...]

A California judge on Monday ruled Google must open up Android to rival third-party app stores. The outcome notably differs from a similar suit filed against Apple that was decided [...]

McDonald's (MCD) has sued four of the biggest beef producers in the US, including Cargill, JBS, National Beef and Tyson Foods (TSN), alleging the producers conspired to drive up the [...]

According to a ruling, the U.S. antitrust case against Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) and Ticketmaster will remain in New York federal court, Bloomberg Law's Justin Wise reports. The case brought [...]

A new US district judge was announced Thursday in the Sean 'Diddy' Combs sex-trafficking case. Judge Arun Subramanian is now in charge of Combs' case and a potential third bid [...]

For years shareholders have paid little heed to the thunderbolts hurled at America's west-coast technology giants by the trustbusting deities of Washington, DC. No longer. Despite expectations of solidly rising [...]

The parallels draw themselves. In 1999 America's government prevailed in a high-profile antitrust suit against a tech giant it alleged was abusing a monopoly. The case then turned on the [...]

A U.S. court has awarded Amazon (AMZN) a partial dismissal of an FTC lawsuit accusing it of illegal monopolies, in a sealed ruling whose details aren't immediately clear, Reuters' Jody [...]

Epic Games is suing Google -- (https://www.thewrap.com/fortnite-epic-games-legal-battle-apple-google/) once again -- for anticompetitive practices, this time adding Samsung to the mix. The Fortnite developer accused the two tech giants of conspiring [...]

After the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa (V) this week, alleging the card network has monopolized the U.S. debit card market, Macquarie noted that subsequent [...]

After the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit, claiming that Visa has acted illegally in its pursuit and protection of its market position in debit transaction processing, Morgan [...]

JPMorgan analyst Tien-tsin Huang keeps an Overweight rating on Visa (V) after the Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against the company over its U.S. debit practices, alleging that [...]

The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit accusing Visa of engaging in (https://www.businessinsider.com/visa-investigation-justice-department-possible-anticompetitive-practices-wsj-2021-3) anticompetitive behavior. Prosecutors say the financial giant's monopolistic actions affect 'the price of nearly everything.' Visa [...]

In a filing made in the U.S. Southern District Court of New York, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division alleged Visa has 'monopolized debit transactions; penalized industry participants that seek [...]

Monness Crespi reiterates a Neutral rating on Visa and continues to see fair value per share of $240 after Bloomberg reported the company is set to be charged in an [...]

A federal judge in Illinois has granted preliminary approval to a settlement in which CDK Global agrees to pay $100 million to resolve claims in an antitrust lawsuit. The class-action [...]

Byline: BF Firos The highly anticipated antitrust trial against Google, initiated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), marks one of the most significant antitrust cases in the tech industry [...]

The Justice Department wanted a jury for its ongoing adtech antitrust trial against Google. Google made sure it would go jury-less by paying a cashier's check of exactly $2,289,751. The [...]

https://www.economist.com/newsletters/us-in-brief to receive 'The US in brief' as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Tonight Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, who have never met each other, will engage in [...]

Yelp (YELP) is suing Google (GOOGL) in federal court in San Francisco, alleging the company used its dominance as an all-purpose search engine to gain an unfair advantage in local [...]

Imagine that you are about to enter a room with a group of nine other people. You will display a number—any between, say, 2,500 and 3,000. Once the group enters […]

(https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1519404889157-ff27ecee077e?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyOHx8cmVudCUyMHRvbyUyMGhpZ2h8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzI0Nzc5MTEwfDA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080) Well that’s the bridgekeeper’s house on top of a railroad drawbridge. Even if the bridge is down, it’s too damn high! Photo by (https://www.wonkette.com/true) Laura Crowe on (https://unsplash.com) Unsplash [...]

Byline: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF The Justice Department, together with the Attorneys General of North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit Friday [...]

VoIP-Pal.com (VPLM) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against telecommunications giants AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ), T-Mobile (TMUS), and Deutsche Telekom (DTEGY) in the United States District Court for the District of [...]

The Attorneys General of Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah and Vermont joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, 29 other states [...]

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said she wants to “reset the entire” advertisement industry through her and Elon Musk’s ad world antitrust lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers. Though Global [...]

The World Federation of Advertisers halts the Global Alliance for Responsible Media activities. The decision follows an antitrust lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X against the organization. WFA said it [...]

Global stockmarkets had a rollercoaster week, underlined by the VIX index of volatility reaching its highest level since the start of the covid-19 pandemic. The S&P 500 fell sharply and [...]

What happened U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Monday that Google illegally operated a monopoly over the internet search industry. The massive antitrust decision followed a 10-week trial in which [...]

Elon Musk’s X has sued a large group of influential and deep-pocketed advertisers including Unilever and Mars, alleging they illegally conspired to boycott the social media platform following the billionaire’s [...]

Rumble (RUM) has joined the social media platform X to file antitrust lawsuits alleging a conspiracy to withhold advertising revenue from Rumble and other digital media platforms. In its filing [...]

X is suing a group of advertisers, alleging they violated antitrust law. The lawsuit alleges an advertising group convinced top brands to withhold billions in ad revenue from X. X [...]

Amid the 286-page judgment, issued after nearly four years of trial proceedings and petabytes of evidence, four words stand out. 'Google is a monopolist,' wrote Amit Mehta, the judge of [...]

Apple has requested that U.S. District Judge Julien Neals reject federal and state antitrust regulators' lawsuit accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the smartphone market, claiming the case seeks [...]