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Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmart #walmart #pepsi #capitalism #collusion #anticompetitive

Google fined $55 million for anti-competitive search deals with Australian telcos: Federal Court orders Google Asia Pacific to pay penalties for exclusive pre-installation agreements with Telstra and Optus that locked out rival search engines. https://ppc.land/google-fined-55-million-for-anti-competitive-search-deals-with-australian-telcos/ #GoogleFine #AntiCompetitive #AustralianTelcos #SearchEngine #FederalCourt

The US Department of Justice #DoJ is urging a #breakup of #Google’s #adtechnology, citing #anticompetitive practises. Google argues that the proposed divestiture would disrupt millions of ad transactions and that market shifts driven by AI will increase competition. https://bestmediainfo.com/mediainfo/mediainfo-digital/google-faces-us-government-in-court-over-ad-tech-monopoly-10799714?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Not so fast! Do the advantages out weight the risks? Or - whatever happened unleashing innovation vs. picking winners and losers!

Quantum-computing companies considering exchanging equity stakes for federal funding. Its sounds simple, but there are REAL dangers.

Companies may face market distortions, conflicts of interest, and politicization of commercial decisions - stifling competition and slowing progress. Federal agencies can only acquire equity stakes in private companies when explicitly authorized by specific legislation. Legislation can be changed/removed after initially being approved.

Companies might get embroiled with scrutiny under antitrust laws or other regulatory regimes designed to prevent unfair competitive practices.

https://www.investors.com/news/quantum-computing-stocks-trump-administration-equity-stakes-ionq-rigetti/ #Quantum #QuantumComputing #USGov #Equity #Investing #Politicization #ConflictsofInterest #AntiTrust #AntiCompetitive #Innovation

Seems pretty anti competitive to me.

#anticompetitive #whatsapp #meta

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-changes-its-terms-to-bar-general-purpose-chatbots-from-its-platform/

THIS is #extortion and #blackmail by #Google and I'd like to ask if anyone else wants to file protest at @BNetzA & @EUCommission if not file charges against #Google for said felonious blackmail...

#NotLegalAdvice but if Google wants to #ban #3rdPartyAppStores by criminalizing #IndieDevelopers outside of #GooglePlay and call it "#Sideloading" I feel obligated to consider said charges because what Google does is literally commit #ComputerSabotage against my own devices...

Seriously, I hope @fdroidorg / #Fdroid and other #3rdParty #AppStores actively consider this #AntiCompetitive action by Google as an act of #sabotage.

NOONE can claim Google are "the good guys" when they are subject to #CloudAct and enforce #cyberfacist bs like that.

It's time for #Android to be #forked!

Maybe call it "#RobotMobileOS" or something...

@mia Ah, finally an official thing.

Thank you for the notification.

#BoostPlz #CanPol #FinancialCensorship #Censorship #Anticompetitive #AnticompetitivePractices #Canada #Petition

@Ichinin IMHO #GAFAMs and their #proprietary #SaaS should be banned from #schools.

Because letting #Microsoft create a #ComputerScienfe curriculum is like letting #TikTok do #MediaLiteracy and #Antivaxxers run #Healthcare ---Oh...Shit!

And yes, #Azure is #Enshittification cuz at least with old #OTP - #Software they at least Students and their stuff was covered by the "Microsoft Academy" program, which ist still #AntiCompetitive (banning @LPI certifications as part of the contract)…

→ Commission fines Google €2.95 billion over abusive practices in online #advertising technology
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1992

“Any person or company affected by #anticompetitive behaviour as described in this case may bring the matter before the courts of the Member States and seek damages. […] Even though the Commission has fined the company concerned, damages may be awarded by national courts without being reduced on account of the Commission fine.”

#fine #Google #billion #Commission

Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/google-admits-anti-competitive-conduct-involving-google-search-in-australia

#HackerNews #Google #Australia #AntiCompetitive #Conduct #Search #News

@jbz I hope @EUCommission and others take note of this #AntiCompetitive action and will act accordingly unless #Microsoft can actually cite a valid reason.

After all, it is neither illegal nor bannable per law to use "competitors' services and products" and even worst-case this qualifies as "cleanroom engineering" to improve #compatibility, which is desireable for both @libreoffice / #LibreOffice and #MicrosoftOffice...

#Microsoft pulling such an #AssholeMove is inexcuseable *unless they actually evidence a serious #ToS violation they could not have resolved otherwise and that banning said user was the only possible recourse to secure their own systems and/or customers' data from a malicious actor.

ICYMI: FTC launches anticompetitive regulations hunt with DOJ: Federal agencies must identify rules that harm competition in sweeping deregulation effort. https://ppc.land/ftc-launches-anticompetitive-regulations-hunt-with-doj/ #FTC #DOJ #Anticompetitive #Deregulation #Competition

Google has crippled access to Android files by @nextcloud

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/nextcloud_play_store_complaint/

#Nextcloud #Google #Anticompetitive

Is it just me, or is this a terrible argument?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/apple-motion-says-external-payments-fundamentally-change-its-app-store/

#apple #walledgarden #anticompetitive #competition #appstore #payments #ecommerce

Indie brewers kept out of UK bars and pubs by multinationals, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/27/indie-brewers-kept-out-uk-bars-pubs-by-multinationals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #Capitalism #anticompetitive

"A US judge ruled Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some ad tech. This is the second time a judge ruled Google willfully engaged in monopolistic practices. The remedies for these rulings are still being worked out but may strengthen the case to have Google's business broken up."

> found via Barry Schwartz on FB.

#google #monopoly #anticompetitive #bigtech #legalnews #platformmonopoly

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-monopoly-ruling-two-39258.html

@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii obviously, that would've been a good standard for everyone, given that almost all non-#Gaming #Apps these days are #WebApps and at that point we'd not have 100+ MB #bloatware that essentially just loads a #Website and can't even cache shit!

/me stares angrily at #Cordova

Personally I believe the @europarl_en & @EUCommission could do that and establish as well as enforce an #EC #norm, just as they did with #USBc, #CCS2 and #GDPR!