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Meta Plans To Appeal Indian Regulator's Rs 213 Crore Penalty Order
After the Competition Commission imposed a Rs 213-crore penalty on Meta in relation to WhatsApp privacy policy, the company said it disagrees with the watchdog's decision and plans to appeal.
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Meta Fined $25.4 Million By India, WhatsApp Data Sharing Blocked For 5 Years
India's competition watchdog directed WhatsApp to refrain from sharing user data for advertising purposes with other applications owned by Meta for a period of five years and fined the U.S. tech giant $25.4 million on Monday.
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Competition Commission of India Recalls Flipkart Antitrust Probe Report After Xiaomi Complaint
In a lengthy investigation that started in 2020, the CCI found Flipkart gave preference to select sellers and prioritised certain listings and also colluded with companies like Xiaomi, Samsung and Vivo to launch phones exclusively on their websites. The watchdog has now told recipients of the Flipkart report to destroy it and give an undertaking to...
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India Antitrust Body Warns Staff Over Unauthorised Media Contacts, Memo Shows
India's antitrust watchdog has warned staff in an internal memo not to share any information with the media when they are not authorized to do so, citing a 60-year-old rule that prohibits such interactions, a document shows.
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Decoding Qantas' "Ghost Flights" Scandal, Which Led To $66 Million Penalty
Australia's competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, revealed that Qantas "admitted that it misled consumers" by advertising seats on tens of thousands of flights, despite the fact that these flights had alread
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Air India-Vistara Merger Gets Singapore's Conditional Approval
Singapore's competition watchdog said on Tuesday it has approved the merger between Tata Group-owned Air India and sister airline Vistara, a joint venture between Tata and Singapore Airlines, subject to certain conditions.
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'Call Of Duty' Maker Activision To Be Bought By Microsoft For $69 Billion
The UK competition watchdog has cleared Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy 'Call of Duty' developer Activision Blizzard.
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Dutch Regulator Rejects Apple's Objections To $53 Million Fine
Dutch competition watchdog ACM on Monday said it had rejected objections by Apple against fines of 50 million euros ($53 million) it gave the company over failure to comply with orders to limit the dominant position of Apple's App Store.
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Pernod Ricard Faces Antitrust Probe In India For Boosting Market Share
India's competition watchdog is investigating Pernod Ricard for allegedly colluding with some retailers in a southern state to hurt competitors, regulatory documents showed, the latest challenge for the French drinks giant in a key market.
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Air India CEO Meets Antitrust Body Chief Over Pending Vistara Merger: Report
Air India Chief Executive Campbell Wilson has held talks with India's antitrust head on its pending merger with sister airline Vistara, weeks after the watchdog raised concerns about market power, people familiar with the matter said.
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Australian Watchdog Asks for Stakeholders’ Views on Data Brokers Like Oracle in Attempt to Regulate Sector
Australia's competition watchdog on Monday asked consumers, businesses and other relevant stakeholders to provide their views about the business practices of data brokers in an attempt to regulate the country's digital platform services sector.
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Google Said to Have Urged Supreme Court to Quash Android Antitrust Directives
Google has urged India's Supreme Court to quash antitrust directives against it for abuse of the Android market, two sources said, as its presses its legal battle against the competition watchdog in one of its most important markets. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in October that Google had exploited its dominant position.
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Adobe’s $20 Billion Acquisition of Figma Reportedly on EU Antitrust Body Radar
European antitrust regulators are preparing to launch a formal investigation into software giant Adobe's $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1,64,200 crore) buyout deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma later this year, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
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Google Charged by EU Antitrust Regulators for Anti-Competitive Adtech Practices
The EU antitrust regulators have charged Alphabet's Google with anti-competitive practices in its digital advertising business. The tech giant may have to sell part of this business to address their concerns. The European Commission set out its charges in a statement of objections, two years after it opened an investigation into the case.
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Meta Offers to Limit Use of Ad Data for Facebook Marketplace to Address Competition Concerns: UK Regulator
Britain's competition watchdog on Friday said social media giant Meta had offered to limit its use of other businesses' advertising data for its Facebook Marketplace service to address the regulator's competition concerns.
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Meta Plans To Appeal Indian Regulator's Rs 213 Crore Penalty Order
After the Competition Commission imposed a Rs 213-crore penalty on Meta in relation to WhatsApp privacy policy, the company said it disagrees with the watchdog's decision and plans to appeal.
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Meta Fined $25.4 Million By India, WhatsApp Data Sharing Blocked For 5 Years
India's competition watchdog directed WhatsApp to refrain from sharing user data for advertising purposes with other applications owned by Meta for a period of five years and fined the U.S. tech giant $25.4 million on Monday.
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Competition Commission of India Recalls Flipkart Antitrust Probe Report After Xiaomi Complaint
In a lengthy investigation that started in 2020, the CCI found Flipkart gave preference to select sellers and prioritised certain listings and also colluded with companies like Xiaomi, Samsung and Vivo to launch phones exclusively on their websites. The watchdog has now told recipients of the Flipkart report to destroy it and give an undertaking to...
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India Antitrust Body Warns Staff Over Unauthorised Media Contacts, Memo Shows
India's antitrust watchdog has warned staff in an internal memo not to share any information with the media when they are not authorized to do so, citing a 60-year-old rule that prohibits such interactions, a document shows.
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Decoding Qantas' "Ghost Flights" Scandal, Which Led To $66 Million Penalty
Australia's competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, revealed that Qantas "admitted that it misled consumers" by advertising seats on tens of thousands of flights, despite the fact that these flights had alread
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Air India-Vistara Merger Gets Singapore's Conditional Approval
Singapore's competition watchdog said on Tuesday it has approved the merger between Tata Group-owned Air India and sister airline Vistara, a joint venture between Tata and Singapore Airlines, subject to certain conditions.
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'Call Of Duty' Maker Activision To Be Bought By Microsoft For $69 Billion
The UK competition watchdog has cleared Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy 'Call of Duty' developer Activision Blizzard.
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Dutch Regulator Rejects Apple's Objections To $53 Million Fine
Dutch competition watchdog ACM on Monday said it had rejected objections by Apple against fines of 50 million euros ($53 million) it gave the company over failure to comply with orders to limit the dominant position of Apple's App Store.
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Pernod Ricard Faces Antitrust Probe In India For Boosting Market Share
India's competition watchdog is investigating Pernod Ricard for allegedly colluding with some retailers in a southern state to hurt competitors, regulatory documents showed, the latest challenge for the French drinks giant in a key market.
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Air India CEO Meets Antitrust Body Chief Over Pending Vistara Merger: Report
Air India Chief Executive Campbell Wilson has held talks with India's antitrust head on its pending merger with sister airline Vistara, weeks after the watchdog raised concerns about market power, people familiar with the matter said.
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Australian Watchdog Asks for Stakeholders’ Views on Data Brokers Like Oracle in Attempt to Regulate Sector
Australia's competition watchdog on Monday asked consumers, businesses and other relevant stakeholders to provide their views about the business practices of data brokers in an attempt to regulate the country's digital platform services sector.
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Google Said to Have Urged Supreme Court to Quash Android Antitrust Directives
Google has urged India's Supreme Court to quash antitrust directives against it for abuse of the Android market, two sources said, as its presses its legal battle against the competition watchdog in one of its most important markets. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in October that Google had exploited its dominant position.
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Adobe’s $20 Billion Acquisition of Figma Reportedly on EU Antitrust Body Radar
European antitrust regulators are preparing to launch a formal investigation into software giant Adobe's $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1,64,200 crore) buyout deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma later this year, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
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Google Charged by EU Antitrust Regulators for Anti-Competitive Adtech Practices
The EU antitrust regulators have charged Alphabet's Google with anti-competitive practices in its digital advertising business. The tech giant may have to sell part of this business to address their concerns. The European Commission set out its charges in a statement of objections, two years after it opened an investigation into the case.
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Meta Offers to Limit Use of Ad Data for Facebook Marketplace to Address Competition Concerns: UK Regulator
Britain's competition watchdog on Friday said social media giant Meta had offered to limit its use of other businesses' advertising data for its Facebook Marketplace service to address the regulator's competition concerns.
