Lexology PRO | Asia-Pacific, Australia | 28 Apr 2022
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has raised concerns that the algorithms employed by the country’s top online marketplaces could be used to preference their own products to the detriment of rival sellers.
Lexology PRO | Asia-Pacific, Australia | 28 Oct 2021
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has recommended introducing a mandatory choice screen to provide consumers with a selection of search engines to address Google’s dominance in the market.
Lexology PRO | Australia | 22 Jul 2021
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has launched an inquiry into online marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon, Kogan and Catch.com.au as part of its examination of digital platform services.
Lexology PRO | Australia, Canada, European Union, etc. | 11 Jun 2021
The ethics of AI in Australia, Germany and Iceland’s cookie laws, a new EU digital identity, a crackdown on piracy in Canada, and responses to cybersecurity breaches in Singapore and the US – plus other key data protection updates.
HFG Law & Intellectual Property | China, USA | 13 Apr 2021
Veni, vidi, settled: they already found an agreement! The day after the interim decision of the court that restricted the sale of the shoes, Nike and…
PRO Compliance | Australia, European Union, Global, etc. | 2 Mar 2021
eBay and Adevinta have agreed to sell off their primary classified advertising businesses in the UK to gain approval from the country’s competition enforcer for their $9.2 billion tie-up.
Carpenter Wellington PLLC | USA | 23 Oct 2020
Venmo, the mobile payment app popular among millennials, launched its first credit card at the beginning of October. The initial launch will make the…
PRO Compliance | South Korea | 6 Oct 2020
Korea’s competition watchdog has penalised digital platform Naver nearly €20 million for manipulating search results in the online shopping and video sectors by displaying its own products at the top.
Collyer Bristow LLP | European Union, United Kingdom | 4 Aug 2020
On 12 July 2020, the P2B Regulation (Regulation 2019/1150 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation…
PRO Compliance | United Kingdom | 26 Jun 2020
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched an in-depth review into a merger between the country’s two biggest ticketing resale companies.