Web browser Opera is challenging the European Commission’s decision to spare Microsoft’s Edge browser from gatekeeper duties – the first appeal against a Digital Markets Act decision by a third party ..read more

Apple’s antitrust woes continue to mount, only this time India’s competition watchdog is getting in on the action. The Competition Commission of India is reportedly on course to find the tech giant abused its dominance by forcing developers to use its in-app payment system. Also in The Briefing, Viterra is poised to sell-off assets in Hungary and Poland to smooth concerns over its $8.2 billion acquisition by Bunge ..read more

The German government’s agreement with domestic telecommunications companies to remove Huawei and ZTE components from 5G networks could “shake the confidence” of foreign investors, the Chinese government has said ..read more

Competition policy is not hindering the emergence of European or French champions, Benoît Cœuré has said ..read more

The class representative in a shipping class action may not use a settlement agreed with one defendant towards costs in ongoing litigation, the Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled – but has left open a possibility for future cases ..read more

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority today became the first antitrust agency to formally probe an artificial intelligence partnership under its merger powers, with the launch of  . Industry groups say the probe could have wider implications for recruitment practices in the startup industry, if competition concerns are found. Also in The Briefing, Brazil’s competition watchdog probes several carmakers for allegedly sharing competitively sensitive information and the UK’s communications regulator orders the British Broadcasting Corporation to stop its roll out of a Radio 2 “pop nostal ..read more

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has said it does not need to quantify consumer harm in assessing whether Foodstuffs’ proposal to combine its North Island and South Island businesses will give the merged entity buyer power over grocery suppliers ..read more

A UK appellate court should order a retrial to correct procedural unfairness if it finds the country’s specialist competition tribunal was wrong to annul the Competition and Markets Authority’s hydrocortisone pharmaceutical market sharing decision, counsel to Allergan has argued ..read more

Microsoft has maintained its hiring of key Inflection AI employees is not a merger after the UK’s antitrust watchdog started the clock on its novel probe into the partnership ..read more

The UK Competition and Markets Authority’s decision to refer Vodafone/Three for an in-depth probe wrongly found that companies with greater scale will compete less aggressively, the parties have claimed.   ..read more