Anti-Competition Issues

Big Pharma loves political gridlock. In fact, shares of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies tend to outperform the broader market when Congress is divided. With Republicans poised to flip control of…

A bipartisan group of senators led by Utah Republican Mike Lee introduced legislation Thursday that would take aim at conflicts of interest in the advertising technology industry and force Google to break up…

The board of Spirit Airlines Inc. SAVE -5.91% rejected a hostile takeover bid from JetBlue JBLU -2.94% Airways…

European Union antitrust authorities on Monday charged Apple Inc. AAPL -2.09% with abusing its dominant position by restricting access to the technology underpinning…

JetBlue’s offer for Spirit came with a higher price tag than Frontier’s cash-and-stock offer, which was originally valued at $2.9 billion. However, Spirit’s board said it believed there was too much risk that regulators would bar a merger…

WASHINGTON—Congressional leaders are negotiating in earnest on long-stalled consumer-privacy legislation, raising the prospect that a bipartisan bill could become reality after years of false starts.Congress is under pressure to act…

SYDNEY— Uber UBER 5.22% Technologies Inc. could pay roughly $19 million in penalties in Australia after the country’s competition regulator found it misled riders by…

Apple CEO Tim Cook has testified previously in the tech giant’s court dispute with Epic Games.…

WASHINGTON— Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -0.24% Google should be forced to turn over internal emails that it has withheld or redacted in the antitrust case filed against it by state and federal…

WASHINGTON— Amazon. AMZN 2.55% com Inc. won dismissal on Friday of an antitrust lawsuit brought against it by the District of Columbia, which had alleged that the…