by 21st Century Competition | Jun 16, 2014 | Global Blogs
A controversial settlement offered by Visa and MasterCard to retailers that sued the companies over swipe-fees is now being challenged as the National Retail federation and the Retail Industry leaders Association has asked an appeals court to overturn the...
by 21st Century Competition | Jun 16, 2014 | Global Blogs
June 16, 2014 A few days ago I wrote a short post on some of the innovative and new media related ways competition/antitrust enforcement agencies were endeavoring to enforce competition law, raise competition law awareness and encourage compliance (see: Competition...
by 21st Century Competition | Jun 16, 2014 | European Commission
European Commission Press release Brussels, 16 June 2014 The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of the European part of Honeywell’s friction material business by another large US friction material...
by 21st Century Competition | Jun 16, 2014 | Global Blogs
(by Pablo Ibañez Colomo) Voices that relativise the problems with Article 102 TFEU case law are not infrequent. It may be true that the case law is not beyond reproach in all respects, the argument goes, but perfection is not of this world. The fact that rulings are...
by 21st Century Competition | Jun 16, 2014 | Global Blogs
Online travel booking firm Priceline.com announced Friday it reached an agreement to acquire restaurant reservation website OpenTable, a $2.6 billion deal set to expand Priceline’s end-to-end travel booking operations. According to reports, Priceline’s...
