A US judge ruled that Google operates an illegal monopoly, controlling 90% of online searches and 95% of mobile searches, which may lead to a breakup of its parent company, Alphabet.
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The ruling could force Google to allow users to choose which search engine to use.
The US Department of Justice and several states are reportedly set to file an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, the owner of Ticketmaster, as early as Thursday.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reportedly plans to sue Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, for federal antitrust violations.
A group of key app developers, which include Epic Games, Spotify, and others, known as the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), is supporting the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Apple.
Pfizer has agreed to pay $93 million to resolve antitrust claims by wholesale drug distributors accusing the pharmaceutical giant of conspiring with India's Ranbaxy Laboratories to delay the sales of cheaper versions of the cholesterol drug Lipitor.
US tech giant Apple has paid a fine of $13.65 million imposed by Russia's FAS antitrust agency for the company's alleged abuse of its dominant market position concerning in-app payments.
The Motorola Mobility unit of Google was mostly defeated in the antitrust case it filed against LCD makers it had claimed colluded to fix prices, Bloomberg reported.
AMR and US Airways indicate new deadlines on their eventual decision on the merger as the lawsuit had affected the businesses.
American Airlines and US Airways Group had sought for a trial that would rescheduled an anti-trust lawsuit filed against the proposed merger of the two airline companies.
US Airways and American Airlines promised to fight the antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice, of which halted the airline companies' USD 11 billion merger.
