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Before reviewing key developments in the antitrust enforcement of M&A in the United States over the past year, it is helpful to begin…

Lina Khan, Biden’s FTC chair, promises to take a more aggressive regulatory approach.

By complaint filed in federal court in Seattle, Washington, a consumer has made known her intentions to sue Amazon.com Inc. for its allegedly

The Sherman Antitrust Act is the first of three major antitrust laws designed to stop anticompetitive practices

Justice Department Investigating Overwatch League Share Image: Robert Paul / Activision Blizzard / DoJ / Kotaku The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into the Overwatch League’s soft salary cap policy that punishes teams who pay players too much, according to a new report by Dot Esports. The investigation is being headed up by the Civil Conduct Task Force, part of the department’s antitrust division. According to Dot Esports, regulators are looking into whether the Overwatch League’...

US judge throws out antitrust complaints against Facebook The ruling is a major blow against the federal governments efforts to rein in big tech companies. The FTC claims Facebook wield too much power in the social media market A US federal judge in Washington DC on Monday threw out antitrust complaints by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a group of state attorneys general against tech giant Facebook.  The ruling is a major setback for the federal governments efforts to rein in the powe...

Facebook hits $1T market cap as FTC antitrust lawsuit is dismissed SHARE Shares in Facebook Inc. surged today following a court ruling dismissing an antitrust complaint brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The 4% rise in Facebook’s share price catapulted the company’s market cap to $1 trillion for the first time. In passing $1 trillion, Facebook has become the fifth listed company in history to reach the mark behind Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com ...

What you need to know DCs Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Amazon alleging that the company fixes online retail prices. DC AG says that the practices arent helping third-party resellers. Amazon has been under anti-competitive scrutiny for over a year now. DCs Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Amazon to end anti-competitive practices that have raised prices for consumers and stifled innovation and choice across the platform. Karl Racine alleges in a press release that Amazons ...

中国颁布阻断立法应对外国法律不当域外实施 As the first departmental legislation of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) in 2021, Rules on Counteracting Unjustified Extraterritorial Application of Foreign Legislation and Other Measures (Blocking Rules) were published with immediate effect beginning Jan. 9, 2021. Given the trade, technology, and even diplomacy tensions between the United States and China, a series of legislations were promulgated starting in the second half of 2020. ...