AT&T CEO confident Time Warner deal on solid ground
(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has only a remote chance of overturning AT&T Inc’s takeover of Time Warner, Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said on Friday, adding that the move…
Siemens, Alstom deal faces full-scale EU antitrust probe: sources
BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Siemens (SIEGn.DE) and Alstom (ALSO.PA) are set to face a full-scale EU antitrust investigation this week after declining to provide concessions to allay regulatory concerns about their…
AbbVie, AndroGel partner owe $448 million in antitrust case: U.S. judge
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday found that pharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc used sham litigation to illegally prevent generic versions of testosterone replacement drug AndroGel from getting to market…
U.S. Supreme Court backs American Express in merchant fee dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with American Express Co and against 11 states, ruling that the company’s policy of forbidding merchants from encouraging customers to…
Facebook’s size no barrier to deals in new areas: executive
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (Reuters) – Facebook Inc believes it could acquire other large companies without running afoul of antitrust enforcers if the world’s largest social media network chose to…
Australian anti-trust watchdog loses appeal against Pfizer over Lipitor sales
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – An Australian court dismissed an appeal by the nation’s anti-trust watchdog in a case against Pfizer Inc in which the regulator alleged the company had used its…
U.S. said to investigate AT&T, Verizon over wireless collusion claim: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. has opened a probe into alleged coordination by AT&T Inc (T.N), Verizon Communications (VZ.N) and a telecommunications standards organization to hinder consumers from easily switching…
AT&T subsidiary DirecTV asks to be dropped from antitrust case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – DirecTV, the biggest U.S. pay TV company and a subsidiary of AT&T, asked a federal court on Tuesday to drop it from the lawsuit that the government…
Google poised to emerge unscathed from European antitrust crackdown
BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The European Union’s top antitrust regulator, Margrethe Vestager, has made it her mission to stem alleged anti-competitive abuses by big American tech companies, threatening as recently…