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The US$324.5 million class action settlement between Silicon Valley employees and technology firms including Google, Intel and Adobe has been denied preliminary approval by Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court in the...

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Hong Kong’s new competition law, which is expected to start next year, is already having an impact on businesses in the city.  The new law prohibits price fixing and other forms of anti-competitive conduct. Recommended...

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The class action lawsuit against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies alleging a conspiracy to not “cold call” employees has been settled for a reported US$324 million. The lawsuit followed a DOJ investigation and enforcement...

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Where the rubber meets the road

February 27, 2014 | 0 Comments

U.S.-based Goodyear is seeking to end its global alliance with Japan-based Sumitomo on the grounds that Sumitomo “has engaged in anticompetitive conduct that we concluded warrants the dissolution of the global alliance”.  Under the global...

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Obama picks new FTC commissioner

September 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

President Obama has nominated Joshua Wright to be an FTC commissioner.  Wright is an antitrust professor at the George Mason University School of Law and has a PhD in economics. The FTC is one of...

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Google is attracting even more antitrust scrutiny after its announcement on 13 August that it was acquiring Frommer’s, the travel guide publisher.  Various consumer and internet groups including, Fairsearch.org, an organisation composed of Google’s competitors...

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Google faces further scrutiny in India

August 14, 2012 | 0 Comments

India’s Minister of State for Corporate Affairs, R.P.N. Singh, has confirmed that Google faces further competition scrutiny in India. In response to a question from Parliament, Mr Singh said that the Competition Commission of India...

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