In preliminary findings published this week, the European Commission said Google should provide third-party search engines with access to core datasets (ranking, query, click, and view data) on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. The goal is straightforward, even if the execution will not be: give competitors the tools they need to challenge Google Search in a market long defined by its dominance.
France’s competition authority has handed down €12.67 million in fines to a group of organic retail players and their trade association, concluding that they orchestrated a long-running agreement to carve up the market and shield prices from competition.
The European Commission has escalated its antitrust case against Meta, signaling it may impose interim measures that would force the company to restore full access for rival AI assistants on WhatsApp as the investigation unfolds.
The UK’s financial regulator is moving closer to formal enforcement action against Hartley Pensions Limited and an individual linked to the firm, laying out allegations that cut to the heart of trust in pension management.
Latitude Finance Australia is back in the regulatory spotlight, this time with a $2.61 million (AUD $3.96 million) penalty after Australia’s communications regulator found the lender breached spam laws more than 2.7 million times.
IBM has agreed to pay just over $17 million to resolve allegations that its employment practices violated anti-discrimination requirements tied to its federal contracts, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday.
Publishing.com has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle allegations brought by the Federal Trade Commission that it misled consumers about how much money they could earn through its online self-publishing programs.