Live Nation Ticket Buyers Sue in Wake of US Justice Department Case May 28, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit have been hit with the first in a likely wave of new consumer antitrust...
Google Fights $17 Billion UK Lawsuit Over Ad-Tech Practices May 10, 2024 Google parent Alphabet has urged a London tribunal to block a mass lawsuit which accuses it of abusing its dominance...
Google Trial Wraps Up as Judge Weighs Landmark US Antitrust Claims May 6, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Google and the U.S. Justice Department wrapped up closing arguments on Friday over claims that the Alphabet unit has unlawfully...
Consumers Sue Apple, Taking Page From US Justice Department Lawsuit March 26, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Apple has been hit with a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the smartphone market,...
Apple Antitrust Suit Mirrors Strategy That Beat Microsoft, but Tech Industry Has Changed March 22, 2024 By Mike Scarcella The U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple draws on the watershed 1998 case that broke Microsoft’s stranglehold on desktop software,...
US Judge Says Google Must Face Some Advertisers’ Antitrust Claims, Dismisses Others March 4, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel Alphabet’s Google must face advertisers’ proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes the ad exchange market, a U.S. judge...
Universities Settle Financial-Aid Antitrust Lawsuit for $166M February 26, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Dartmouth, Northwestern, Rice and Vanderbilt universities have agreed to pay a combined $166 million to resolve claims that they favored...
JD.com Wins Anti-Monopoly Lawsuit Against Alibaba December 29, 2023 Chinese online retailer JD.com 9618.HK said on Friday that it won a lawsuit against rival Alibaba 9988.HK, which was fined...
Amazon Asks Judge to Dismiss FTC Lawsuit, Says No Consumer Harm Shown December 11, 2023 By Diane Bartz Amazon.com asked a federal court on Friday to dismiss a U.S. government antitrust lawsuit which accuses the company of using...
New FTC Court Filing: Amazon Made $1B Through Secret Price Algorithm November 3, 2023 By Diane Bartz, Arriana McLymore and David Shepardson Amazon.com used a series of illegal strategies to boost profits at its online retail empire, including an algorithm that pushed...