Topic: Self-preferencing

The Senate’s self-preferencing legislation has been updated to exclude telecommunications and financial services companies ahead of a potential vote in the coming months.

27 May 2022

The UK’s antitrust watchdog is investigating whether Google unlawfully tied and self-preferenced its services in different parts of the digital advertising technology sector, adding to similar probes by EU, US and French competition enforcers.

26 May 2022

The European Parliament and European Council have reached a historic political agreement on the Digital Markets Act, which will impose sweeping new rules and obligations on the world’s biggest technology companies as soon as October.

25 March 2022

The Seoul High Court has reportedly granted Google’s request to suspend a corrective order imposed by the country’s antitrust watchdog banning certain restrictive agreements imposed on smartphone manufacturers but upheld the enforcer’s €168 million abuse of dominance fine.

03 March 2022

Switzerland’s Competition Commission has fined an asphalt plant €1.4 million for unlawfully offering discounted prices to road construction companies that owned shares in the company.

25 February 2022

A group of European publishers has filed an antitrust complaint against Google to the European Commission, accusing the search engine of engaging in “unlawful tactics” to foreclose competition in the advertising technology market since its purchase of DoubleClick in 2008.

11 February 2022