82 stories tagged antitrust, newest first.
121 points by Mayzie | 139 comments
Federal Court of Australia judgment Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc (No 2) [2026] FCA 1552 on relief, declarations and injunctions after findings of Apple's misuse of market power.
154 points by iamnothere | 108 comments
Politico Magazine article arguing that federal investigators found evidence of possible collusion behind high US egg prices, previously blamed on bird flu.
99 points by greyface- | 46 comments
Hagens Berman law firm page for a consumer class action alleging Verisign overcharged .com domain buyers through an illegal monopoly since 2022.
897 points by sighborg | 684 comments
A Not-Ship newsletter article examining how Amazon's marketplace policies drive up prices across other online retailers.
530 points by DeepLogin | 383 comments
ClassAction.org news article on a new lawsuit (The Pizza Standard LLC v. Visa Inc.) accusing Visa, Mastercard and major banks of anticompetitive merchant card fees.
4 points by 59percentmore | 8 comments
Ask HN thread posing a hypothetical where the US government nationalizes Alphabet to restore Google Search quality and remove LLM features.
224 points by Mgtyalx | 356 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Paramount Skydance completed its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery after a last-ditch effort to stop it failed.
98 points by Brajeshwar | 78 comments
MacRumors article reporting that an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of blocking tap-to-pay competition is advancing, letting banks and credit unions sue together.
534 points by 0x5FC3 | 256 comments
Blog post criticizing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" as an argument for regulating open weight models and granting frontier labs an antitrust waiver.
463 points by donohoe | 329 comments
New York Times article on a court ruling that lets Google avoid a forced breakup of its ad tech business; the capture shows a captcha page instead of the article.
1333 points by djoldman | 284 comments
AP News article reporting that an FTC settlement will give John Deere equipment owners the right to repair their own machinery.
403 points by toomuchtodo | 185 comments
Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post arguing that major egg producers settled a DOJ and state price-fixing case for fines far smaller than their conspiracy profits.
360 points by donohoe | 170 comments
Seoul Economic Daily article on a US lawsuit accusing Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of memory price fixing; the page returned a CloudFront 403 error.
2116 points by ChuckMcM | 727 comments
A GrapheneOS Mastodon thread arguing that Apple's and Google's expanding hardware attestation APIs lock out competing hardware and operating systems.
550 points by Alex_Bond | 161 comments
Bloomberg news article reporting that a jury found Live Nation illegally monopolized the live events and ticketing market.
564 points by toomuchtodo | 219 comments
Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post on California AG Rob Bonta alleging Amazon led a price-fixing scheme with online retailers and seeking an immediate halt.
428 points by josephwegner | 235 comments
Kagi blog post following up on Google antitrust rulings, search index access, AI competition, and their impact on Kagi's search business.
509 points by ossa-ma | 159 comments
Blog post arguing Nvidia's $20B deal for Groq's assets and hiring of CEO Jonathan Ross exploits an antitrust loophole to avoid merger scrutiny.
473 points by connor11528 | 115 comments
Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post on an unsealed FTC complaint alleging Pepsi and Walmart colluded so shoppers paid higher food prices everywhere except Walmart.
346 points by nobody9999 | 226 comments
Ars Technica article on Apple losing its appeal of a contempt ruling in the Epic v. Apple iOS payments case, with Tim Sweeney commenting on developer fears.
369 points by toomuchtodo | 415 comments
Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter essay arguing corporate-run gambling and online sports betting are economic coercion and should be abolished.
325 points by ChrisArchitect | 274 comments
European Commission press release announcing a €2.95 billion fine against Google for abusing its dominance in advertising technology.
809 points by colesantiago | 539 comments
CNBC article reporting Judge Amit Mehta's ruling that Google may keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search distribution contracts.
335 points by warrenm | 126 comments
A ghacks.net news article reporting that an Australian court found Apple and Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct.
350 points by mtomweb | 254 comments
Open Web Advocacy blog post reporting that Japanese regulation requires Apple to allow third-party browser engines on iOS by December 2025.
411 points by bingden | 411 comments
TechCrunch article on former FTC chair Lina Khan citing Figma's IPO as proof that regulatory scrutiny of the blocked Adobe acquisition was justified.
474 points by rbanffy | 717 comments
Derek Thompson Substack essay arguing that antitrust critics blaming homebuilder monopolies for America's housing problems are wrong.
368 points by tempodox | 373 comments
Personal blog post recounting the author's experience at Apple and Google DMA compliance workshops in Brussels and opinions on gatekeepers' approach to the law.
583 points by moose44 | 563 comments
Proton blog post announcing it has joined a lawsuit against Apple over App Store practices it says harm developers and consumers.
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402 points by dave1629 | 862 comments
PDF of Y Combinator's amicus curiae brief supporting the plaintiffs in the US Department of Justice antitrust case against Google.
384 points by macguillicuddy | 236 comments
Apple's official App Store Review Guidelines page for developers, outlining the rules apps must follow to be approved for the App Store.
955 points by connor11528 | 320 comments
Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post on Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruling an Apple executive lied under oath in the Epic v. Apple case and making a criminal contempt referral.
1053 points by shayneo | 507 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that a federal judge found Apple violated an antitrust ruling; the capture shows only a device verification screen.
539 points by dfabulich | 546 comments
Medium essay arguing that a US antitrust ruling forcing Google to stop paying for search placement will cut most funding for all major web browsers.
468 points by FinnLobsien | 801 comments
New Yorker column by Kyle Chayka on Mark Zuckerberg's testimony at Meta's antitrust trial arguing that social media platforms are no longer what they used to be.
389 points by Aldipower | 514 comments
Reuters article on Yahoo Finance reporting that the EU fined Apple $570 million and Meta $228 million for breaching EU law.
786 points by IdealeZahlen | 417 comments
New York Times article reporting a federal judge ruled Google illegally monopolized online advertising technology.
411 points by c420 | 302 comments
Axios Pro article reporting on the start of the FTC's antitrust trial against Meta in federal court.
458 points by mrkramer | 337 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Y Combinator is urging the White House to back the EU's Digital Markets Act.
393 points by notpushkin | 400 comments
A petition-style open letter urging Mozilla to end its reliance on Google search revenue in light of the U.S. v. Google antitrust case.
438 points by hydrolox | 617 comments
Wired article reporting that the DOJ's final proposed remedy in the Google antitrust case still calls for divesting Chrome and ending paid search placement deals.
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345 points by zdw | 357 comments
A PDF court filing in which Apple submits an emergency motion to intervene as a defendant in the US v. Google antitrust case.
745 points by keepit | 448 comments
A Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow arguing that companies use apps to do things that would be illegal if done directly; the page rendered blank.
1052 points by redm | 1198 comments
Bloomberg article reporting that the US Justice Department will push Google to sell its Chrome browser to break its search monopoly, plus data licensing and AI measures.
493 points by rntn | 204 comments
Gizmodo news article reporting that federal regulators are taking action against John Deere over right-to-repair restrictions on its equipment.
418 points by JumpCrisscross | 689 comments
Financial Times article reporting that the US government is considering seeking a break-up of Google in its landmark antitrust case.
704 points by dblitt | 503 comments
The Verge reports a judge's permanent injunction in Epic v. Google requiring Google to give third-party app stores access to the Play catalog and distribute rival stores.
421 points by christhecaribou | 191 comments
Reuters news article reporting that the US antitrust lawsuit against Amazon will proceed; the captured page shows a captcha challenge instead of the article.
420 points by pseudolus | 339 comments
CNBC news article reporting that the U.S. Justice Department sued Visa, alleging an illegal monopoly over debit payment networks.
859 points by nowyoudont | 358 comments
Ask HN thread questioning whether Pave, a YC-backed compensation benchmarking startup that pools payroll data, amounts to illegal anti-competitive wage fixing.
394 points by eatonphil | 435 comments
Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post on the Third Circuit ruling that TikTok's algorithmic recommendations aren't shielded by Section 230 and it must stand trial.
708 points by pseudolus | 566 comments
U.S. Department of Justice press release announcing an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage over algorithmic rent pricing software alleged to harm millions of renters.
834 points by rvz | 610 comments
Bloomberg news article reporting that a judge ruled Google's search default deals with Apple and others on phones violated antitrust law in the DOJ case.
669 points by cbg0 | 734 comments
AP News article reporting that the European Union found Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams with its Office software.
626 points by malermeister | 663 comments
Guardian news article reporting that the European Commission found Apple in breach of the EU's Digital Markets Act competition rules.
428 points by pjmlp | 288 comments
Kyodo News article reporting that Japan's parliament enacted a law restricting Apple and Google from blocking third-party app stores and payment platforms on iOS and Android.
338 points by passwordoops | 319 comments
Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter essay arguing that hidden monopolistic practices, or 'economic termites,' raise costs in ways macro statistics miss.
714 points by 1986 | 260 comments
Bloomberg news article reporting that the US Justice Department will sue in New York to seek a breakup of Live Nation and Ticketmaster on antitrust grounds.
381 points by wordhydrogen | 138 comments
Court filing in Klein v. Meta alleging Facebook's In-App Action Panel program used SSL man-in-the-middle techniques via Onavo to intercept Snapchat, YouTube and Amazon analytics traffic.
439 points by edsimpson | 169 comments
Ars Technica article on a lawsuit alleging Facebook gave Netflix access to user DMs and wound down Facebook Watch streaming to keep Netflix's ad spending.
512 points by impish9208 | 522 comments
European Commission press release announcing non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act into Alphabet, Apple and Meta practices.
2455 points by jcfrei | 2371 comments
New York Times article reporting that the U.S. Justice Department sued Apple, accusing it of illegally maintaining a monopoly over the iPhone.
697 points by madtrax | 699 comments
TechCrunch news article reporting that Apple terminated Epic Games' developer account, calling Epic a threat to the iOS ecosystem.
725 points by nabla9 | 480 comments
FTC Business Blog post from March 2024 warning that using pricing algorithms to coordinate prices is still illegal price fixing.
477 points by moose_man | 193 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that the U.S. government launched an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth Group; page showed a device verification screen.
372 points by ChrisArchitect | 240 comments
Mozilla Research report on how Microsoft uses design tactics and dark patterns in Windows to push Edge and undermine users' browser choice.
324 points by SethMLarson | 73 comments
Mozilla dashboard tracking technical issues in major platforms like Apple's that disadvantage Firefox versus first-party browsers, with proposed fixes.
335 points by sdepablos | 250 comments
Tim Sweeney's X post listing problems with Apple's new rules for external purchase links, including a 27% commission on web purchases.
508 points by mfiguiere | 267 comments
Nikkei Asia report that Japan plans antitrust rules requiring Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores and billing systems.
2155 points by supafastcoder | 952 comments
Figma CEO Dylan Field's December 2023 blog post announcing that Figma and Adobe are abandoning their proposed merger.
1156 points by modeless | 873 comments
The Verge's live coverage of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial over the Play Store, reporting the jury verdict against Google.
425 points by thunderbong | 223 comments
TechCrunch article reporting Google's admission that Spotify pays no Google Play Store fees under a secret deal, revealed during the Epic v. Google trial.
454 points by r721 | 198 comments
An X post showing WIRED's editor's note that the op-ed "How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet" was removed for not meeting editorial standards.
637 points by PaulHoule | 569 comments
Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post on the FTC and 17 states' antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Amazon over practices that stop merchants from discounting elsewhere.
482 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 282 comments
Bloomberg article reporting a judge ruled the US Justice Department can post Google antitrust trial exhibits online as soon as reasonable.
481 points by mmastrac | 1023 comments
AppleInsider news article reporting that the EU is requiring Apple to open its platforms and features to rival companies.
1079 points by marcopolis | 797 comments
FTC press release announcing its lawsuit against Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power through anticompetitive conduct.
343 points by passwordoops | 142 comments
A BIG newsletter post by Matt Stoller analyzing how much of the Google antitrust trial was held behind closed doors at Judge Amit Mehta's discretion.
482 points by Brajeshwar | 312 comments
A Verge Decoder interview with prosecutor Brendan Ballou on how private equity buys companies from vet offices to tech firms, why the system is broken, and fixes.
583 points by jmsflknr | 520 comments
Bloomberg article reporting that the UK's CMA blocked Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard over cloud gaming competition concerns.
462 points by astlouis44 | 498 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that a US appeals court ruled in Apple's favor on antitrust claims in its legal battle with Epic Games.
452 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 309 comments
A PDF court filing from the Epic v. Google case in N.D. California, cited for a Google CEO message asking to set a chat group to history-off.