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Data Privacy and Security
April 16, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Financial Services
April 15, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
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Antitrust, Technology
April 15, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Antitrust View More
April 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Posco has received a corrective order from the Korea Fair Trade Commission for "greenwashing" its steel products by marketing them as more eco-friendly than they actually are. The Korea Fair Trad... (more story)
April 17, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Chris May
North America
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today it is "extremely unlikely" that Instagram would have achieved the enormous scale of 2 billion users had Meta not acquired the startup in 2012, an argument striking... (more story)
April 17, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australian mining-services and equipment company Qteq and its former senior executive Simon Ashton attempted to lure rival companies into cartel and bid-rigging arrangements, an Australian court has ruled. Han... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 16, 2025 | David Harrison
North America
California’s decision to not join Elon Musk’s legal challenge to OpenAI’s move to for-profit status “is not yet final,” but if the state attorney general fails to reverse his “preliminary” denial, Musk may cha... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Real estate software company RealPage failed to convince a federal judge today to temporarily block a ban in Berkeley, California, on algorithms used to determine apartment rental prices because it violates th... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
AI-financed colonies on Mars. Manipulation of regulators. A tech grifter’s “long con” to transform revolutionary generative AI into his billion-dollar “piggybank.” New counterclaims filed by OpenAI against Elo... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 17, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s banks have asked the country’s competition regulator to extend the authorization they had been granted to confer among themselves and with the country’s supermarkets to support wholes... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Supermarket operator Woolworths' application to acquire ready-meals manufacturer Beak & Johnston has been approved by the New Zealand competition regulator. In a statement today, the New Zealand Commerce Commi... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Grocery retailer Woolworths Group’s bid to acquire 100 percent of the shares in frozen-food manufacturer Beak & Johnston in New Zealand has been approved by the country’s antitrust regulator. In ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 17, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Software company Accellion told a US federal court that privacy claims against the company stemming from data breaches are too “individualized” to be certified as a class in a lawsuit that involves five of its customers.
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US federal judge today dismissed with leave to amend Roblox's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and trespass to chattels claims against a third party gambling-style site run by Based Plate that alle... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Federal workers unions and nonprofits suing multiple US agencies, including the Department of Labor and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in an attempt to stop the data collection activit... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 17, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
In a significant ruling addressing the "inherent complexities and ambiguities" in intellectual property law, India's top court established a new two-pronged test to resolve the interplay between copyright and ... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Roku can question Dolby and Sun Patent Trust executives over the companies’ relationship with Access Advance as it fends off their US motion to dismiss a lawsuit seeking Frand license terms for HEVC video enco... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
EmblemHealth has brought US antitrust claims against Alexion Pharmaceuticals, alleging the drug company and its wholly owned subsidiary AstraZeneca unlawfully delayed the introduction of biosimilar competition... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A senior UK Financial Conduct Authority enforcement official has urged her US counterparts to continue to cooperate and provide assistance in international cases. Therese Chambers, the authority'... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned a China-based independent “teapot” refinery Shandong Shengxing Chemical Co., Ltd. for its role in purchasing more than... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In a motion to stay a forfeiture proceeding, US prosecutors said they are pursuing additional criminal charges related to their investigation into corruption associated with the Malaysian soverei... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 16, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank will “never be influenced” by political pressure at the same time he said it’s "uncertain" whether the Fed will be affected by a Supreme Court case ... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced changes to its organizational structure to ensure its approach to supervision evolves to better address challenges, align similar functi... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: President Donald Trump has fired Democratic National Credit Union Administration Board members Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka.
Trade View More
April 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China and Cambodia should jointly safeguard multilateral trade and advance cooperation in industrial and supply chains, advanced manufacturing, green development and the digital economy, Chinese ... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US has asked Mexico to review whether workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining are being denied at the Modern Metal Alloys facility in Querétaro, Mexico.
April 16, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
The Trump administration’s 90-day moratorium on steep new tariffs for most other countries will keep world trade from further contractions, but the lingering uncertainty means continued downside risk, the Worl... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway has secured approval by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for its plan to fund a program to develop a wind farm in Utsira Nord, located in the North Sea. The farm will raise renewable energy... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU General Block Exemption Regulation needs to be simplified, according to comments from several member states seen by MLex. The legal text, which sets out some conditions to exempt state aid from the Euro... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has won European Commission approval for its plan to spend 400 million euros to boost its generation of renewable hydrogen. Production will be supported through the “Auctions-as-a-Service” ... (more story)
Energy View More
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Steel and aluminum, textiles, furniture, tires and mattresses are the products to be prioritized over the next five years in ecodesign and energy labeling requirements, according to a working pla... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Lowering EU gas storage filling targets could reduce gas prices in the summer, according to a report by the EU energy watchdog ACER. High gas storage filling targets can drive gas prices up due t... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU roadmap to phase out Russian energy dependency is set to be presented on May 6, according to the European Commission's latest agenda. The plan, aimed to further reduce dependencies and com... (more story)
Technology View More
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google's proposed final judgment "falls woefully short of meeting the objectives" that the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit identified in US v Microsoft, the US Department... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe, North America
European governments are supporting a plan by the EU’s executive arm to strengthen the security of the bloc’s power and Internet undersea cables. EU governments said that the damage to cables — especially in t... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
The EU’s cyber crisis response hub, EU-CyCLONe, would have a more prominent role under a revised coordination framework, according to a suggestion in a new draft compromise text prepared for EU governments as ... (more story)