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Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-03-12

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission fines nine pork suppliers 3.2 billion won for price-fixing in E-Mart contracts worth 19 billion won, following similar cartels in sugar, flour, and starch syrup industries, with six corporations referred to prosecution.

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Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-03-06

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission launches investigation into four major starch syrup manufacturers for operating a 7.5-year price-fixing cartel affecting 6.2 trillion won ($4.3 billion) in sales, with companies controlling 90% of the domestic B2B market facing potential fines up to 20% of related revenues.

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Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-03-06

President Lee Jae-myung warns oil refiners that price-fixing cartels are serious crimes against the people, vowing legal action as gasoline prices exceed 1,800 won nationwide following his proposal for price cap intervention in the petroleum market.

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2026-02-25

Pluralistic: The whole economy pays the Amazon tax (25 Feb 2026)

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IncognitimIncognitim
2026-02-20

EPIC shakedown -> kickback the trump team performed here:

Weeks after "accusing" the 90% of , the commodus-in-chief invokes the , which 'protects them from going out of business and shields them from regulatory or financial pressures. It also ensures any rule or regulation "does not place the corporate viability of any domestic producer of elemental or based herbicides at risk'
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farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/20

smegsmeg@assortedflotsam.com
2026-02-17

How Walmart And Pepsico Rigged Prices And Supercharged Food Inflation
forbes.com/sites/errolschweize

#inflation #groceries #foodprices #pricefixing #ftc #monopoly #walmart #pepsico #fritolay

Canvases By Peter 🇵🇸CanvasesByPeter@mementomori.social
2026-02-15

From a small Guardian update this morning:

"A highly anticipated federal court battle between the competition regulator and supermarket giant Coles begins today, testing allegations the retailer offered “illusory” discounts on hundreds of everyday products.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking large penalties and community service orders against Coles, which, along with Woolworths, controls two-thirds of the Australian grocery market.

A similar case against Woolworths is expected to be heard at a later date.

The 10-day hearing in Melbourne will scrutinise pricing practices involving hundreds of products, from instant coffee to chocolate biscuits, over an extended period.

The regulator alleges that Coles temporarily inflated prices before marking the items as discounted under promotions like “Down Down,” in a practice known as “was/is” pricing.

Coles is defending the claims, arguing pricing was a response to increased costs from suppliers.

The case starts during a period of reigniting inflation, with groceries and other household costs rising strongly again."

#Coles #Shopping #News #Consumers #ACCC #PriceFixing #Corruption #Law #Supermarkets #Australia

Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-02-12

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission fined CJ CheilJedang, Samyang Corp., and Daehan Sugar a record 408.3 billion won for colluding to fix sugar prices, marking the nation's second-largest cartel penalty and requiring ongoing price reporting.



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Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-02-12

Samyang Corp. has apologized for its involvement in sugar price-fixing, pledging stronger compliance, new anti-collusion rules, and withdrawal from the Korea Sugar Association following the Fair Trade Commission’s probe.

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Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-02-12

CJ CheilJedang Co. apologized for its role in sugar price-fixing, announced withdrawal from the Korea Sugar Association, and unveiled strict measures to prevent future collusion, including a new transparent pricing system and reinforced compliance oversight.

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Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-02-12

South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission Chair Joo Byung-ki announced that fines imposed on three major sugar producers for price-fixing exceed their illicit gains, but called for legislative changes to raise penalty caps, citing that current limits are insufficient to deter cartel activity.



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Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-02-12

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission fined CJ CheilJedang, Samyang Corp., and Daehan Sugar a combined 408.3 billion won ($305 million) for colluding to fix sugar prices, marking the second-largest cartel penalty in Korean history.

en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-02-09

South Korea's National Tax Service has launched a sweeping probe into 14 companies, including Daehan Flour Mills, over alleged price-fixing and tax evasion totaling 500 billion won ($420 million), as authorities intensify scrutiny of monopolistic practices impacting consumer prices.

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Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-02-05

President Lee Jae-myung vowed to mobilize all state powers to crack down on price-fixing and monopoly abuses fueling inflation, urging strict enforcement and systemic reforms to stabilize consumer prices.



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Gravitasgravitylord@peertube.gravitywell.xyz
2026-02-04

Amazon forces sellers to keep prices high on other platforms

peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/4KA

petersuberpetersuber@fediscience.org
2026-02-02

5/ A US federal district judge just dismissed the #antitrust case against six academic #publishers (Jan 30, 2026).
fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/

Article about the dismissal:
reuters.com/legal/government/a

"The four scholars, scientists and professors who filed the lawsuit in 2024 had not shown sufficient evidence of a conspiracy involving publishers Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wolters Kluwer."

#Monopoly #PriceFixing #USLaw

Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2026-02-02

President Lee Jae-myung praised the prosecution's large-scale indictments over a 10 trillion won ($7.5 billion) price-fixing scandal involving essential goods, ordering further measures to recover unjust profits and restore prices.

en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

Xamanismo Coletivoeliasulrich@hachyderm.io
2026-01-18

#GoogleDominance: "Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what #JudgeMehta found to be the original #Apple-#Google arrangement enabling the illegal #monopolization of the #searchmarket.

Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring #adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, #innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the #openweb, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."

#AISearch #PriceFixing #Antitrust

thebignewsletter.com/p/will-go

Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-17

"The adtech problems drew a monopolization case, and Google lost that one too. And though the remedy is still to come, few think Google will be fundamentally restructured.

And that’s a tragedy, because the shift to AI is perhaps more significant than the shift to mobile. As with the early search market, there are several companies offering foundational AI services, like OpenAI, Microsoft, Perplexity, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and so forth. The two key resources determining which model wins are, same as search before, data and distribution.

Google, as you’d expect, is repeating its search monopolization playbook with Gemini. It is self-preferencing Gemini across its lines of business, which is what it did with Android and search. It is cutting deals to insert Gemini into every major retail channel, which is analogous to its payments to phone makers to thwart rival search engines. Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what Judge Mehta found to be the original Apple-Google arrangement enabling the illegal monopolization of the search market.

Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the open web, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."

thebignewsletter.com/p/will-go

#Google #AI #LLMs #AISearch #PriceFixing #Monopolies #Oligopolies #Competition #Antitrust

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2026-01-04

@simonzerafa I remember then this was closer to € 99…

  • In fact, I grapped myself a cheap (#DDR4!) kit for like €75 two years back!

Fuck the #AIbubble and espechally the #RAM manufacturers!

youtube.com/watch?v=9A-eeJP0J7c
youtube.com/watch?v=9hLiwNViMak

#WTF #PriceFixing #Cartel #Samsung #Micron #SKhynix #Scam #Scalpers #Fraud #ConsumerProtection #Regulation #OpenAI #AI #Enshittification #USpol

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