Antitrust Issues

April 25 (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc, the world's largest package-delivery company, reported a 7 percent rise in quarterly profit, helped by a stronger-than-expected post-holiday season in January. Net income rose to $1.04 billion, or $1.08 per...

BRUSSELS, April 25 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators asked rivals of Google on Thursday to give feedback on the Internet search firm's concessions aimed at ending an investigation into its core business practices. The European Commission, which acts as...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. is under fire from a coalition of companies including Microsoft Corp. which have called on European antitrust authorities to launch an investigation into the Internet giant's dominance on smartphones. The FairSearch group...

By Lisa Jucca and Paola Arosio MILAN, April 22 (Reuters) - Hutchison Whampoa is targeting Telecom Italia's mobile business and would not oppose a spin-off of its fixed-line network, thus removing a major political hurdle to a deal, a source familiar with...

BRUSSELS, April 19 (Reuters) - British media group Pearson's Penguin unit has offered to scrap e-book deals with Apple that imposed price restrictions on Amazon and other retailers, EU antitrust regulators said on Friday. The concessions, if accepted...

WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - Three women lawyers at the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division are on the short list to fill a Democratic vacancy on the Federal Trade Commission, according to sources knowledgeable about the process. The FTC...

Consumers don't ordinarily think of cable TV companies as friends of the little guy. But Cablevision, which won an extremely pro-consumer court ruling on digital video recording in 2008, is waging another legal battle that could be a boon to pay-TV...

The world's biggest seed company never saw Vernon Hugh Bowman coming. It should have because, beginning in May, 1999, the self-described, 75-year-old “eccentric bachelor,” who farms 300 acres of corn, soybeans and rusting machinery near Sandborn, IN,...

George Plimpton knew the score. A generation or so ago, the late Paris Review editor developed what he called the "Small Ball Theory" of sports writing, which posits "a correlation between the standard of writing about a particular sport and the ball it...

Reprinted with permission from the Tri State Neighbor By Bruce Falk Editor, Tri State Neighbor VERMILLION - The South Dakota Law Review 2013 Symposium merged the worlds of law and agriculture March 15, bringing together thinkers from both fields...

The deal to sell United Technologies Corp.'s West Hartford pump and engine control unit to satisfy the antitrust concerns of regulators closed on Monday. UTC took on the business last year when it acquired Goodrich Corp. Triumph Group Inc. is...

 The world’s biggest seed company never saw Vernon Hugh Bowman coming.  It should have because, beginning in May 1999, the self-described, 75-year-old “eccentric bachelor,” who farms 300 acres of corn, soybeans and rusting machinery...