Wall Street is foaming at the mouth with all the possible mergers and acquisitions that may now go through with Trump as president Goldman Sachs expects a 20% increase in M&A activity next year. Fortune · Nov 7, 2024
Dealmakers Ponder What's Next After Tough Biden Antitrust Years President Joe Biden's skeptical approach to corporate mergers has been a hallmark of his administration's business policy -- a stance generally expected to ease if Donald Trump returns to the White House. International Business Times · Aug 25, 2024
US Alleges Software Scheme To Raise Rent Prices US prosecutors unveiled sweeping antitrust charges Friday against a property management software company that they allege employs algorithms to enable collusion among landlords, harming renters across numerous US markets. International Business Times · Aug 23, 2024
DOJ alleges RealPage helped landlords inflate rents - Roll Call The Justice Department and eight states on Friday sued real estate company RealPage, alleging the company helped landlords collude on rents. Roll Call · Aug 23, 2024
We know the Google antitrust ruling is huge, but we don’t know what it really means yet Consumers could see hardly any changes at all, or they could see Google being split up. Fortune · Aug 6, 2024
The United States is not facing an imminent recession. This is nonsense The American economy is still growing. There is no reason to panic, despite Trump’s ‘world war three’ comments The Guardian - US · Aug 6, 2024
Top antitrust official raises red flag on personalized dynamic pricing and warns of biggest 'extraction of monopoly power' ever "Companies are getting better at figuring out how to maximize profits. The more information they have about who you are and what you’re willing to pay, the more they can charge you." Fortune · Jun 23, 2024
AI's regulatory troubles pile up as U.S. prepares antitrust probes and activists target Meta over privacy The Justice Department will reportedly tackle Nvidia, with the Federal Trade Commission taking on OpenAI and Microsoft. Fortune · Jun 6, 2024
Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia investigated over monopoly laws US regulators open inquiry into AI firms over antitrust laws that oversee fair competition The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2024
‘Strong likelihood’ ECB is in dialling back phase, says Lagarde, after first rate cut since 2019 – as it happened European Central Bank lowers borrowing costs for first time in almost five years, but won’t pre-commit to further cuts The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2024
News Publishers Try To Sic the Government on Google AI A journalism industry trade group is asking the federal government to thwart a tech tool that could make news publishing less profitable. Reason · Jun 3, 2024
The US sues Apple for monopoly antitrust violations, says the company has smothered an entire industry US Attorneys General have filed suit that Apple is locking in users, hurting development, and making smartphone worse. TechRadar · Mar 21, 2024
FTC and Justice Department double down on strategy to go after corporate monopolies New guidelines from the FTC and Justice Department are part of a broader push to promote competition and limit what the White House sees as excessive consolidation. WEKU · Jul 19, 2023
Microsoft, Activision and the battle with competition tsars In a “striking show of leniency by a notoriously tough regulator”, the European Commission has approved Microsoft’s $69bn megadeal with games-maker Activision Blizzard, said DealBook in The New York Times – just weeks after the UK’s competition regulator threw it out. The Week · May 19, 2023
Los Angeles Times · Apr 7, 2023 Warner Bros. Discovery called out for scrapping Latino programs, cutting CNN jobs after merger Four Democrats in Congress have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to review the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, alleging the deal is responsible for "hollowing out an iconic American studio."
Tribune News Service · Jan 24, 2023 US sues Google to break up ad unit in heated antitrust fight The U.S. Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google, calling for the break up of the search giant’s ad-technology business over alleged illegal monopolization of the digital advertising market.
Reason · Jan 19, 2023 The Courts Are Rejecting Biden's Antitrust Crusade The Biden administration's antitrust efforts are being shut down by judges, except for a single successful case where best-selling authors were involved.
Financial Times · Jan 2, 2023 Business trends, risks and people to watch in 2023 What to look for this year in the corporate world in sectors from energy to private capital and technology
Los Angeles Times · Nov 1, 2022 Judge blocks Penguin Random House takeover of Simon & Schuster A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House’s attempt to swallow its smaller rival, Simon & Schuster, dealing a blow to the world’s largest book publisher’s attempt to become an even bigger giant.
Axios · Nov 1, 2022 Judge blocks $2.2 billion merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster The DOJ has argued that the merger violates antitrust law and would harm competition.
Tribune News Service · Oct 26, 2022 DOJ antitrust losses in court are seen as setback for Biden’s merger crackdown In the span of just a month, federal judges rejected the U.S. Justice Department’s attempts to block three mergers in the health technology, agriculture and defense contracting industries.
Axios · Jun 9, 2022 FTC's new stance: Litigate, don't negotiate Agency head Lina Khan says she'll sue to stop anticompetitive mergers rather than negotiate settlements.
Axios · May 24, 2022 Larry Summers' new inflation target: Biden's "hipster" antitrust policies Larry Summers is criticizing BIden's antitrust police on inflation, including the FTC and DoJ.
The Independent UK · Jan 18, 2022 US regulators aiming at illegal and anticompetitive mergers U.S. competition regulators have mounted an effort to tighten enforcement against illegal mergers, in line with President Joe Biden’s mandate for greater scrutiny to big business combinations