Antitrust Issues

Online travel agency Priceline.com's $1.8 billion deal to acquire smaller rival Kayak Software Corp, which was expected to close this month, will be delayed due to a prolonged review by UK antitrust regulators. The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has...

WASHINGTON -- European Union antitrust officials on Wednesday hit Microsoft Corp. with a $731-million fine for failing to live up to a promise to allow Windows users to easily choose a Web browser other than Internet Explorer. That promise was part of a...

"Two great airlines, one great future" was American Airlines' slogan as it walked the aisle with TWA a dozen years ago, heading into a future nowhere near as rosy as advertised. If that marriage truly had been something special in the air, American...

As expected, Maryland vigorously defended its right to move to the Big Ten without paying a $52 million exit fee to the Atlantic Coast Conference in two legal actions filed Friday. Maryland attorney general Doug Gansler filed a complaint in Prince...

Avery Dennison Corp. will sell two of its businesses for $500 million in cash to CCL Industries Inc., a Canadian maker of specialty packaging, the Pasadena-based company announced Wednesday. The sale comes three months after Minnesota-based 3M abandoned...

 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...

A recent New York Times headline whetted the proverbial whistle. “Justice Dept.'s Fight Against Modelo Brings in Familiar Face.” Modelo, the name of a lovely Mexican beer, drew me into a brief story that related how the company's outside counsel,...

 A recent New York Times headline whetted the proverbial whistle.  “Justice Dept.’s Fight Against Modelo Brings in Familiar Face.”  Modelo, the name of a lovely Mexican beer, drew me into a brief story that related how the company&...

The Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch InBev, the maker of Budweiser, to block its acquisition of Grupo Modelo, maker of Corona, officials announced Thursday.  The department said the proposed $20.1-billion merger...

Robert H. Bork, the conservative legal champion whose bitter defeat for a Supreme Court seat in 1987 politicized the confirmation process and changed the court's direction for decades, died Wednesday. He was 85. The former Yale law professor and judge on...

WASHINGTON - National Farmers Union (NFU) and more than 40 farming, rural and agricultural organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week asking for an expanded investigation into a proposal made by food processing company...

The company that helps TV networks determine what shows get canceled or live for another season is buying the Columbia-based company that helps radio stations decide whether to change formats. Nielsen Holdings of TV ratings fame announced Tuesday that it...