The Antitrust Week In Review
Posted 05/16/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
.聽 Google faces a record antitrust fine of about 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) from the European Commission in the coming weeks, according to the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph.聽 The European Union has accused Google of promoting its...
A View from Constantine Cannon鈥檚 London Office
By Richard Pike and Yulia Tosheva
Just as expected, following a one-year investigation and a number of information requests, the European Commission formally announced today that it is Google鈥檚 parent company, Alphabet, of abusing its dominant position in relation to the Android mobile operating system.
Google is already facing ...
A View from Constantine Cannon鈥檚 London Office
By Yulia Tosheva and Irene Fraile
The UK Payment Systems Regulator (鈥淧SR鈥�) has a on its approach to monitoring compliance with the EU Interchange Fee Regulation (鈥淚FR鈥�), which is changing the way payment systems operate in Europe.
The PSR, which was launched in April 2015, is an independent economic regulator that oversees...