See Musk’s X Adds Nestlé, Colgate, Shell, Other Brands to Ad-Boycott Suit: Social-media platform alleges companies illegally boycotted the platform over Elon Musk’s changes to safety standards by Patience Haggin of The WSJ.
Musk said that several companies conspired to not advertise on Twitter (X).
See Outbrain-Teads $1 Billion Merger Deal Cleared by U.K. Antitrust Regulator: The companies aim to bolster their position in digital advertising, challenging dominant players such as Google and Meta by Edith Hancock of The WSJ.
The firms are online recommendation platform Outbrain & media company Teads. "Outbrain and Teads revealed their merger plans in August 2024 in a bid to bolster their position in digital advertising, challenging dominant players such as Google and Meta."
See U.K. Watchdog Fines Global Banks Over Information Sharing on Government Bonds: Traders shared competitively sensitive information about the pricing of gilts, the regulator found by Elena Vardon of The WSJ. Excerpts:
"individual traders shared competitively sensitive information about the pricing of U.K. government bonds–gilts and gilt asset swaps–on various dates. The CMA said unlawful exchanges of information took place in one-to-one chatroom conversations between certain traders"
"The banks have since implemented compliance measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again"
See EU Court Backs Italian Antitrust Ruling on Google’s Android Auto Platform: The ruling comes after a years-long dispute between the Italian energy company and the tech giant over how it manages access to Android Auto by Edith Hancock of The WSJ.
Google was fined 102 million euros because let another company put an electric-vehicle charging app on its phones.
See Samsung, BBC, Others Respond to U.K. Competition Watchdog’s Google Search Investigation: Retailers, broadcasters and tech groups share comments on the impact of Google’s search engine dominance by Edith Hancock of The WSJ.
Google might have to "make the data it collects available to other businesses or to give more control to publishers over how their data are used, including in Google’s artificial-intelligence services."
See Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Gets U.K. Antitrust Clearance: The review was to determine if the partnership should be considered a de facto merger that could have stifled competition in the country by Mauro Orru of The WSJ.
They determined that Microsoft does not control OpenAI and their partnership would not hurt competition.
See Google-Apple Deal Still in DOJ Crosshairs by Dan Gallagher of The WSJ. Excerpt:
"Late Friday, the Justice Department reiterated its request for a federal judge to end Google’s payments to Apple for preferential search-engine placement on iPhones and other devices.
That was part of the “final remedies” the government is proposing in the antitrust lawsuit it won last year. The government is also still looking to force Google divest its Chrome internet browser and to make portions of its search index available to rivals at marginal cost."
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