Scoop: Google, the target for billions of euros in European Union antitrust fines, has been hit by a fresh EU probe over concerns it’s illegally rigging the cost of advertising on search, according to documents seen by Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
At the 2026 Milano-Cortina games, would-be skiing champions, including Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA and Austria’s Raphael Haaser, will be clad in some labels at the center of an EU antitrust investigation...
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Scoop: Paramount’s leadership has held talks in recent days with French President Emmanuel Macron amid a European charm offensive to garner support for its $108.4 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery:
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New: Google has been hit by a European Union investigation over fears it may have abused its dominance by using its own artificial intelligence tools to squeeze out competition: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Netflix’s €72 Billion Warner Bros deal:
When your buyout is so big even antitrust regulators want a subscription.
Binge watch it here:
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Universal’s $775 million bid for Downtown is set to be hit by a formal warning from European Union watchdogs setting out concerns that the deal could stifle services to artists signed with independent labels:
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New: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union’s crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms’ market power: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Boerse and Nasdaq risk hefty European Union fines after the bloc’s antitrust watchdog opened a full-scale investigation into a suspected cartel linked to listing, trading and clearing of derivatives: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scoop: MMG’s $500 million purchase of Anglo American Plc's Brazilian nickel business will be hit by an in-depth EU investigation, with regulators concerned over how the deal could harm the bloc’s stainless-steel industry:
At the EU General Court in Luxembourg today, Apple lashed out at the EU’s attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge of the bloc’s Big Tech antitrust rules: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New: Luxury fashion giants Gucci, Chloé and Loewe have been hit with European Union fines totaling more than €157 million ($182 million) for imposing allegedly illegal price curbs: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US President Donald Trump won scores of European plaudits today, as he declared that “war is over” after sealing a landmark 20-point agreement to halt hostilities between Israel and Hamas: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
New: OpenAI has raised concerns with European Union antitrust enforcers over potentially harmful conduct by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Apple: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Sanofi was the target of a raid by European Union antitrust regulators over suspected “anticompetitive disparagement,” in the latest crackdown on firms allegedly bad-mouthing their rivals: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New: ADNOC's nearly €12 billion takeover of Covestro is edging closer to European Union approval after talks with regulators paved the way for a package of commitments to be submitted as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New: Google will meet the EU’s deadline to propose changes to its advertising technology business after a near-€3 billion fine — but won’t include the full breakup the EU and industry rivals have previously pushed for: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
❗ Google fined almost €3 billion by the EU and ordered to stop favoring its own advertising technology services, in a move that risks further inflaming tensions with US President Donald Trump at a critical time in trade talks: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EU Commission ironing out the kinks in its Google Adtech decision:
- Decision still due within days / weeks
- Cease & desist order rather than a full-blown breakup
- Expected to be smallest-ever EU Google antitrust fine
But the 'kink' in question is a biggun'...
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New: Italy has pushed back against EU criticism of Rome’s power to block or limit deals, which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni recently used in UniCredit's now-failed attempt to acquire Banco BPM. w/ Alessandra Migliaccio & Sonia Sirletti
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& the admission that VDL changed handsets several times since the exchange with Pfizer's Bourla is a moot point - particularly if a cloud-based messaging service was used. Surely some trace of data must be accessible...somewhere? I defer to technical experts here. @alexfanta.bsky.social
There are technical differences between accessing missing Signal messages (which appears to VDL's platform of choice), and WhatsApp messages.
But the fact that forensic experts have not been called in to assist in Pfizergate - in the name of transparency - is puzzling...
A competition case that resulted in a hefty fine last year for International Flavors & Fragrances.
In this investigation, the commission's own experts were able to recover intentionally deleted WhatsApp messages that evidenced abusive behavior.
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But...'should' the #Pfizergate saga end? The Commission has forensic IT experts under its employ who are often tasked with identifying 'deleted' records. For example...
A stone plaque marks the house where the radical French artist lived from 1815 until his death in 1825.
New: Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware faces scrutiny from EU judges, after a cloud computing group contested the European Commission’s approval of one of the world’s biggest tech deals: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
❗ NEW: The European Union is set to rebuke the Italian government for imposing harsh conditions on UniCredit’s takeover of Banco BPM, setting up a power struggle between Brussels and Rome over the fate of the deal:
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The European Union’s crackdown on Apple, Meta Google and others isn’t a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with US President Donald Trump, according to Teresa Ribera, the EU’s competition chief: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Apple is poised to offer further App Store changes to appease European Union antitrust watchdogs who issued an ultimatum after doling out a €500 million ($580 million) fine:
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❗️ TikTok gets €530 million EU privacy fine for illegally sending user data to China, with the Irish data protection regulator warning the firm didn’t do enough to keep information out of reach from Chinese state services: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
❗ Malta’s “golden passports” program violates EU law, the bloc’s top court ruled in a case that could have transformed the EU into a haven for affluent foreigners at a time when US President Donald Trump wants to entice them across the Atlantic: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
