American Express Global Business Travel, which is operated by Global Business Travel Group (GBT), said Tuesday (Feb. 18) that updated provisional conclusions announced by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) support the company’s position as it defends itself against an antitrust case brought by...
Google and Epic Games will reportedly be in court Monday (Feb. 3) as Google seeks a reversal of a judge’s order that it allow rival app stores with its Play store. The 2023 jury verdict and October 2024 judge’s order that Google aims to overturn...
Google reportedly told the European Union’s Court of Justice Tuesday (Jan. 28) that the European Commission investigation that resulted in a 4.3 billion euro (about $4.5 billion) fine “punished Google for its superior merits, attractiveness and innovation.” Alfonso Lamadrid, a lawyer for Google, said this...
Apple and Google, the tech giants behind massive mobile ecosystems, are facing dual antitrust probes in the U.K. The investigations, launched by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), aim to determine whether Apple and Google hold “strategic market status” in their respective mobile ecosystems,...
The U.K. has reportedly replaced its competition watchdog for failing to prioritize the government’s growth agenda. According to a report Wednesday (Jan. 22) by Reuters, the government has replaced Marcus Bokkerink as head of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) with Doug Gurr, former head of Amazon’s U.K. operations. During an event...
Google is the first tech company investigated under the United Kingdom’s new competition law. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) began its first strategic market status (SMS) designation investigation under the new digital markets competition regime, which came into force at the start of the...
Apple is in court in the U.K. this week defending itself against monopoly-related charges. As Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 13), the potentially $1.8 billion class action suit before London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal accuses the tech giant of holding millions of iPhone and iPad users “captive” and forcing...
The head of the FTC is imploring the incoming administration to continue her antitrust work. In an interview with Bloomberg News Thursday (Jan. 9), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan said she has been in discussions with her successor, Republican Commissioner FTC Andrew Ferguson. “In the merger space, we were able...
England’s antitrust regulator is launching new investigations, buoyed by additional legal authority over tech giants. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced these plans Tuesday (Jan. 7), saying it was taking advantage of the new “digital markets competition regime” which came into force on Jan. 1 of this year....
