Baidu terminates $3.6 billion purchase of JOYY's China live-streaming unitBaidu has terminated its planned $3.6 billion acquisition of Nasdaq-listed JOYY Inc's China live-streaming business, the company said on Mo...
01 Jan, 2024, 07.32 PM IST
Antitrust body probes Walmart's Mexico unit Walmex for monopolistic practicesMexico's antitrust watchdog, Cofece, did not name the company under investigation, but a source familiar with the matter said it was Walmar...
10 Oct, 2023, 04.54 PM IST
Tech steps against muscle-flexingRegulators should work together to develop appropriate thumb rules to guard against monopolistic tendencies. It will also be apt for CCI to...
21 Nov, 2022, 12.12 AM IST
Google's India policy head Archana Gulati resignsGulati, who previously worked at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's federal think-tank, declined to comment. A spokesperson for Alphabet Inc's ...
27 Sep, 2022, 08.43 AM IST
Mobile retailers' body to seek govt intervention against e-commerce onslaught"The situation is extremely fragile due to the unethical, discriminatory, and monopolistic business practices by online sales platforms. Se...
15 Apr, 2022, 06.00 PM IST
China to tighten antitrust legal enforcement: new antitrust bureau headChina last month elevated the seniority of the market regulator's antitrust unit, the National Anti-monopoly Bureau, and appointed Gan as c...
19 Dec, 2021, 01.01 PM IST
US states file updated antitrust complaint against Alphabet's GoogleThe amended U.S. lawsuit, filed in a federal court in New York late Friday, accuses Google of using monopolistic and coercive tactics with ...
15 Nov, 2021, 08.53 AM IST
Saurabh Mukherjea's argument on why conglomerates like RIL are not abusing their dominanceSaurabh Mukherjea, the founder and chief investment officer of Marcellus Investment Manager, has argued that in India, the public should no...
14 Sep, 2021, 05.04 PM IST
ONDC to end e-commerce monopolistic practices, ensure data privacy: Piyush Goyal"Goyal deliberated with the members of the advisory council & experts on how the initiative will democratise digital commerce and move it f...
14 Aug, 2021, 09.10 AM IST
China deepens crypto crackdown with central bank warningCryptocurrency trading is banned in China, and authorities have recently closed mines and warned banks to halt related transactions.
06 Jul, 2021, 08.55 PM IST
Jack Ma's business partner reveals billionaire is spending his free days paintingLast year, Ma was summoned by China's financial regulators & Alibaba was fined $2.8 bn.
17 Jun, 2021, 11.49 AM IST
Indian-American Pramila Jayapal named vice chair of a key congressional subcommitteeChennai-born Jayapal, 55, from the Democratic Party, will oversee the subcommittee's urgent work on antitrust, big tech, reining in anti-co...
04 Mar, 2021, 10.54 AM IST
Discounts by e-commerce firms to badly affect offline market: Confederation of All India TradersIn a letter to Sitharaman, National General Secretary of CAIT has demanded for setting up of a regulatory authority for e-commerce business...
06 Oct, 2014, 07.28 PM IST
Over-invoicing capital by Adanis: A licence-era ghost haunts the present; CCI listening?This means that the market for large investment projects remains prone to collusion and is not competitive. This warrants a look-in by CCI.
03 Jan, 2014, 04.18 AM IST
D Subbarao cautions against creating 'too-large-to-fail bank'Subbarao today cautioned against making a 'too-large-to-fail' banks, saying what is needed is not a monopolist but a number of comparativel...
13 Aug, 2013, 04.12 PM IST
Oil regulator moots futures trading in pipeline capacityThe downstream oil and gas sector regulator has proposed an innovative concept of trading in gas pipeline capacities in commodities exchang...
05 Oct, 2012, 07.19 AM IST
- Billionaire Carlos Slim opens health center for the poor
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, by some estimates the world's richest man, launched a $500 million health institute Tuesday aimed at helpi...
19 Sep, 2007, 09.00 AM IST