The FTC sued 1800Contacts for entering into a series of agreements with competitors that limited the competitors’ ability to bid on certain trademarked terms as search terms in online search term auctions.
Search engines like Google sell search terms. An
Uber Technologies Co. announced today that it was selling its Chinese affiliate to rival Didi Chuxing Technology Co. The Wall Street Journal reports that the sale is the end of a three-year effort by Uber to penetrate the Chinese market.
Somewhat overshadowed by media attention surrounding the repercussions of the Brexit vote and subsequent impact on the United Kingdom’s laws and economy, the landscape of Europe’s competition law regime is undergoing a notable change this year, as well. By December
Last month, AMC and Carmike announced plans to merge. They would form the nation’s largest cinema chain with over 8,000 screens. Also last month, Napster founder Sean Parker announced a new product—Screening Room—which will stream first-run movies
News Corp Complains about Google
News Corp recently filed a complaint with the European Commission against Google over “improper scraping of content for use in search results.” News Corp alleges that Google takes News Corp content and makes it available
On Wednesday, March 9, 2016, Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division Bill Baer testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights that the Division is presently investigating minority common ownership of natural competitors in
On Wednesday, March 2, 2016, the Bundeskartellamt (BKA), Germany’s antitrust enforcer, announced that it had initiated a probe of Facebook. In announcing the probe, BKA president Andreas Mundt stated that, “For advertising-financed internet services such as Facebook, user data are
New York State Health Care—DSRIP, PPSs,
COPAs and Antitrust “Immunity”
New York has received permission to use over $8 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funds to revamp how healthcare is provided throughout the State. As part of this process, the
On October 12, 2015, the Antitrust Bureau of New York Attorney General’s Office sent a letter of inquiry to Turing Pharmaceuticals asking about its 5000 percent increase in the price of its recently acquired AIDS drug Daraprim. Among other things,
