German Authorities Investigation

Amazon will be placed under closer surveillance for any possible abuse of its market position, according to Germany's anti-cartel watchdog. The Federal Cartel Office can now act more effectively to "intervene and prohibit potential anticompetitive practices", after Amazon was deemed a company of "paramount significance for competition" by the antit...

German prosecutors on Thursday said they had opened an investigation against persons unknown at the transport ministry and the KBA federal transport authority on suspicion of leaking trade secrets from car giant Daimler.

Germany's competition authority is investigating Alphabet's Google News Showcase, a platform that makes news available on the tech giant's news website.

A KBA spokesman said that German authorities were in contact with the NHTSA and watchdog has launched its investigation into the matter.

German regulators launched an investigation into Facebook over the company's decision to link its Oculus virtual reality products to the social network, authorities said.

Germany's antitrust authority has launched an investigation into Apple and Amazon over possible anti-competitive behaviour, German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily reported. The new probe into Amazon's treatment of third-party dealers comes after Germany's competition watchdog in August launched an investigation of whether and how Amazon influe...

Volkswagen's luxury sports vehicle unit Porsche AG has launched an internal investigation into the suspected manipulation of petrol engines, German weekly Bild am Sonntag (BamS) reported. Porsche has informed Germany's automotive watchdog KBA, the Stuttgart prosecutor's office, as well as U.S. authorities of suspected illegal changes to hardware an...

Germany's antitrust authority has launched an investigation into Amazon's relationship with third-party traders selling on its site, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

German prosecutors have extended their diesel emissions probe to include auto supplier Continental for its role in supplying engine components, searching the company's offices and those of automaker Volkswagen, the companies said on Wednesday. Prosecutors in Hanover, Germany conducted the searches as part of an investigation into how a 1.6-litre di...

Germany's BMW has no interest in settling an investigations by the European Union antitrust authorities against the company and other German carmakers, German magazine WirtschaftsWoche reported on Friday, citing company sources.

Germany's motor vehicle authority KBA is investigating Daimler on suspicion that 60,000 Mercedes cars were fitted with software aimed at tricking emissions tests, the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday. A spokesman for Daimler, owner of Mercedes-Benz, said the carmaker was reviewing the facts and fully cooperating with the KBA. Bild am So...

German authorities investigating the Volkswagen pollution cheating scandal have opened a probe into a Volkswagon employee suspected of having destroyed evidence of the fraud, AFP learnt on Thursday.

German prosecutors are investigating whether Volkswagen employees deleted data that could be harmful to the company for a week before the carmaker admitted to U.S. authorities that it had cheated diesel-emissions tests, a group of German media outlets reported on Wednesday.

FIFA said it was still cooperating with German and Swiss authorities in their investigations into various World Cup bids.

The German authorities should carry out an investigation into the two-day detention of Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, a global rights watchdog said today.

Amazon will be placed under closer surveillance for any possible abuse of its market position, according to Germany's anti-cartel watchdog. The Federal Cartel Office can now act more effectively to "intervene and prohibit potential anticompetitive practices", after Amazon was deemed a company of "paramount significance for competition" by the antit...

German prosecutors on Thursday said they had opened an investigation against persons unknown at the transport ministry and the KBA federal transport authority on suspicion of leaking trade secrets from car giant Daimler.

Germany's competition authority is investigating Alphabet's Google News Showcase, a platform that makes news available on the tech giant's news website.

A KBA spokesman said that German authorities were in contact with the NHTSA and watchdog has launched its investigation into the matter.

German regulators launched an investigation into Facebook over the company's decision to link its Oculus virtual reality products to the social network, authorities said.

Germany's antitrust authority has launched an investigation into Apple and Amazon over possible anti-competitive behaviour, German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily reported. The new probe into Amazon's treatment of third-party dealers comes after Germany's competition watchdog in August launched an investigation of whether and how Amazon influe...

Volkswagen's luxury sports vehicle unit Porsche AG has launched an internal investigation into the suspected manipulation of petrol engines, German weekly Bild am Sonntag (BamS) reported. Porsche has informed Germany's automotive watchdog KBA, the Stuttgart prosecutor's office, as well as U.S. authorities of suspected illegal changes to hardware an...

Germany's antitrust authority has launched an investigation into Amazon's relationship with third-party traders selling on its site, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

German prosecutors have extended their diesel emissions probe to include auto supplier Continental for its role in supplying engine components, searching the company's offices and those of automaker Volkswagen, the companies said on Wednesday. Prosecutors in Hanover, Germany conducted the searches as part of an investigation into how a 1.6-litre di...

Germany's BMW has no interest in settling an investigations by the European Union antitrust authorities against the company and other German carmakers, German magazine WirtschaftsWoche reported on Friday, citing company sources.

Germany's motor vehicle authority KBA is investigating Daimler on suspicion that 60,000 Mercedes cars were fitted with software aimed at tricking emissions tests, the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday. A spokesman for Daimler, owner of Mercedes-Benz, said the carmaker was reviewing the facts and fully cooperating with the KBA. Bild am So...

German authorities investigating the Volkswagen pollution cheating scandal have opened a probe into a Volkswagon employee suspected of having destroyed evidence of the fraud, AFP learnt on Thursday.

German prosecutors are investigating whether Volkswagen employees deleted data that could be harmful to the company for a week before the carmaker admitted to U.S. authorities that it had cheated diesel-emissions tests, a group of German media outlets reported on Wednesday.

FIFA said it was still cooperating with German and Swiss authorities in their investigations into various World Cup bids.

The German authorities should carry out an investigation into the two-day detention of Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, a global rights watchdog said today.