Here you will find all the articles with the tag: antitrust.
Microsoft has to convince antitrust regulators that the deal won't hurt competition. Microsoft President Brad Smith is travelling to Brussels this week to make a very important pitch to European regulators, according to Reuters. His challenge is to convince the antitrust watchdogs from multiple ... Read more
1 year ago
The $20 billion deal will be reviewed at the request of 16 EU member states. The European Commission has decided that it will "assess" Adobe's proposed acquisition of Figma, a company that offers a web-based collaborative tool for product design, Figma Design, as well as a whiteboarding tool, Fi... Read more
1 year ago
Amazon is now facing threats from competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic. This week the Wall Street Journal reported that the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing a lawsuit that "could challenge an array of Amazon’s business practices as anticompetitive", ac... Read more
1 year ago
The chip maker got one of the EC's findings quashed, but a second complaint against the company is still on appeal. Intel is has not quite escaped the long arm of European Union antitrust regulators, even after the bloc’s second-highest court squashed a 1.06 billion euro fine against the US te... Read more
1 year ago
The UK market regulator (CMA) launched an official investigation into the acquisition of VMware. Broadcom wants to buy the firm for $61 billion, but regulators fear the deal may thwart competitors. The CMA first voiced concerns about the acquisition in November 2022. The regulator launched a pr... Read more
1 year ago
The US tech giant seeks to squash an investigation by the UK's competition watchdog. This week Reuters reported that Apple has filed an appeal against an investigation launched by Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) into the dominance of its mobile browsers in the cloud gaming mark... Read more
1 year ago
Germany's antitrust regulator, the so-called Bundeskartellamt, announced that it has issued objections against Google's data processing terms, ordering the tech giant to move to comply with national antitrust laws. The agency said that "the new provisions for large digital companies (Section 19a... Read more
1 year ago
The European Commission will investigate whether Broadcom's acquisition of VMware affects competition. Among other things, the regulator wants to assess whether VMware remains compatible with processors from other suppliers. Many of the network devices in the datacenters running VMware's softwar... Read more
1 year ago
Insiders told Reuters that Meta is trying to settle with European Union antitrust investigators to ward off paying damages for the infringement of user data security and data law breaches. The EU has strict laws in place to prevent social media networks from using users' confidential information... Read more
1 year ago
After making concessions to address concerns over the use of seller data, US retail giant Amazon may be able to settle two EU antitrust probes by the end of the year, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. If it manages to conclude the probes, Amazon escapes a fine of up to 10 percent... Read more
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