by 21st Century Competition | Jun 10, 2014 | Global Blogs
The European Commission is set to launch a formal competition probe into Apple and its tax practices in Ireland, according to an unnamed source. News of the alleged investigation follows an announcement by the Commission last year that it would inquire about corporate...
by 21st Century Competition | Jun 10, 2014 | Global Blogs
June 10, 2014 I’ve been blogging on competition and advertising law topics for quite a few years now – about six or seven years or so by my count – and written on a number of topics (some 1,000 – 1,500 posts now as hard as that seems to me to …read more...
by 21st Century Competition | Jun 10, 2014 | Global Blogs
Several of the nation’s largest companies including Microsoft, Facebook and Google have reportedly joined together against the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The firms, which also include Yahoo and eBay, established the Computer &...
by 21st Century Competition | Jun 10, 2014 | Global Blogs
The European Commission has reportedly warned the world’s largest interdealer broker ICAP that it may have violated antitrust law by participating in a market-rigging cartel, a move reports say gives ICAP a last chance to organize its defense ahead of formal...
by 21st Century Competition | Jun 10, 2014 | Global Blogs
The head of the London Metal Exchange spoke at a conference on Tuesday to discuss the process of setting gold pricing benchmarks, telling reporters that the methods are vulnerable to manipulation. LME Chief Executive Garry Jones said the London fix is “obviously…open...