Saturday, January 28, 2023

Sony caught lying, possibly to EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager: Microsoft makes clearest public statement yet on 'parity' aspects of ten-year Call of Duty offer

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Under merger laws as they stand, Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard King (NASDAQ:ATVI) falls far short of what a regulatory age...

States, Epic Games, Match Group show smoking guns for Google's spoliation of evidence by moving sensitive talks to 'history off' chats: sanctions loom large

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The Tuesday (January 31) hearing related to Google's auto-deletion of chats (as part of the Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation in t...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

36 states, Epic Games, Match Group allege Google had 'culpable state of mind' when auto-deleting relevant Google-internal chat messages: Google obviously denies

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It's getting really serious now in the Google Chats discovery dispute that is part of the Google Play Store antitrust litigation in the ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

DOJ and eight state AGs file antitrust lawsuit against Google, demanding divestiture of key ad tech assets

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The United States Department of Justice has done today what media reports indicated yesterday: the DOJ, together with the attorneys general ...

New Zealand regulator postpones Microsoft-ActivisionBlizzard decision from February 3 to April 28

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The New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZ ComCom or NZCC) has pushed back its deadline for a decision on Microsoft's acquisition of Activ...

Apple increased U.S. lobbying spend by 44% in 2022, steeper hike than any other Big Tech company--and engaged in astroturfing on top of it all

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For my esteemed readers, Apple's lobbying activity is relevant with a view to mobile ecosystem regulation and/or (depending on a given r...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Sony doesn't want to provide documents and/or witnesses Microsoft requested in Federal Trade Commission adjudicative proceeding regarding its Activision Blizzard deal

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On Wednesday, I wrote that Sony may live to regret the market definition and theory of harm it espouses in connection with Microsoft's ...