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[Link] Amazon referred to US attorney general over ‘potentially criminal conduct’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Members of the Democratic-controlled House judiciary committee have referred Amazon to the Department of Justice, alleging “potentially criminal conduct” by the company and some of its senior executives.
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[Link] Google loses appeal, faces €2.4 billion shopping antitrust fine
Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Google and the European Union are still battling it out over various product-bundling schemes across Google's empire. The latest news has to do with Google Shopping's integration with Google Search.
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[Link] Mark Zuckerberg downloaded and used a photo app that Facebook later cloned and crushed, antitrust lawsuit claims
Read: 7/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com
The founders of a photo-app startup filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta, The New York Times first reported on Thursday.
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[Link] Australia also wants Google to unbundle search from Android
Read: 31/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is the latest government regulatory body to take issue with how Google does business.
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[Link] Report: Judge Throws Out Antitrust Cases Brought Against Facebook
Read: 2/7/2021 uploadvr.com
The United States Federal Trade Commission has 30 days to refile its complaint against Facebook after a federal judge on Monday threw it out as well as another case brought by dozens of individual states. You can read through the opinions written by judge James E. Boasberg for the U.S.
[Link] Jack Ma’s Alibaba Hit With $2.8 Billion Fine For Abusing Its Dominant Market Position
Read: 11/4/2021 www.forbes.com
Alibaba Group was hit with the highest-ever antitrust fine imposed in China when the country’s regulator announced on Saturday that it had slapped a fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) on the Hangzhou-based tech giant.