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Google is an Illegal Monopoly, Federal Court Rules

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Following a nine-week bench trial starting in September 2023 and closing arguments in May 2024, District of Columbia district court judge Amit Mehta ruled on August 5, 2024, that Google illegally maintained its monopoly in...more

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The State AG Report – 9.7.2023

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Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •Google Reaches Settlement with AGs from 50 States, D.C.,...more

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Online Travel Update: A Growing Influence of Fintech Products and Their Suppliers

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This week’s Update features a wide variety of stories, including two on the growing influence of fintech products and their suppliers...more

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Online Travel Update: Booking Holdings Presses Ahead With Etraveli Acquisition

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It was another relatively quiet week in the online travel world, as evidenced by the stories below. The one obvious exception was the European Commission’s final publishing of the much-discussed Digital Markets Act (DMA),...more

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How Law Firms Can Set Up Google Analytics for WordPress

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WordPress is one of the most popular platforms among legal marketers. WordPress websites tend to be easier to create, simple to maintain, and provide a great user experience for visitors. However, in order to improve your...more

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Antitrust + Competition Technology Quarterly Update - Q2 2022

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​​​​​​​In July 2022, the FTC brought an enforcement action to enjoin Meta’s acquisition of virtual reality app maker Within. The FTC’s approach in that complaint could have implications for Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of...more

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Meta Reaches Settlement With Feds Over Allegedly Discriminatory Housing Ads

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Meta has reached a deal with federal authorities in which the Facebook parent will “adopt new online advertising practices” aimed at resolving allegations that its online ads “discriminated against users by race, gender and...more

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Online Travel Update: Google Shutters “Book on Google” feature; Booking Holdings’ Earnings Release Reveals Insight on Profit...

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This week’s Update includes two stories detailed Booking Holdings’ recent earnings release and a surprise story regarding Google’s hotel booking platform. Enjoy....more

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The State AG Report – 1.27.2022

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The State AG Report – 1.27.2022- Here are last week’s curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: Google...more

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Choppy Markets Await Fed Policy Guidance

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Tuesday saw another Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde day on Wall Street, with markets diving to start the day before a late rally that petered out and left the Nasdaq down more than 2% and  the S&P 500 down about half that...more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Travelers seek increased transparency and Booking.com abandons BookingSuite effort

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Travelers Seeking Increased Transparency - (“Skyscanner, Expedia, Hopper on need for transparency in travel retailing,” Oct 14, 2020 via Phocus Wire) In a recent roundtable held at the Open Industry Summit: The New...more

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Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

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Wearable fitness products company Fitbit Inc. announced Friday it entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by Alphabet Inc.-owned Google for $7.35 per share in cash, valuing the company at approximately $2.1 billion....more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Sabre likely to face anti-trust challenge; Google now offers vacation rentals; Priceline and...

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Sabre Likely to Face Anti-Trust Challenge - ("DOJ Poised to Sue to Block Sabre’s Deal for Farelogix," Bloomberg News on Aug 16, 2019) Following up on a story we featured back in April...According to reports coming out...more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update: The hotel resort fee saga targeting Marriott continues; non-cancelable rates at the heart of...

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This week’s Update includes additional background information regarding the ongoing resort fee saga, which many of you requested. Enjoy....more

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Delaware Court Of Chancery Dismisses Derivative Suit Alleging Tech Company Exposed Itself To Unnecessary Litigation Risk With...

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On April 1, 2019, Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III of the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed for lack of demand a stockholder derivative suit against directors of Uber Technologies, Inc. (“Uber”) that asserted breach of...more

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Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Big Data – Could She Do It?

Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren thinks Big Tech is too big and wants it—and, in particular, Amazon, Facebook and Google—broken up and their past mergers and acquisitions unwound. And the FTC recently announced it was...more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update: U.S. Circuit Court deals a blow to short-term platforms; Google continues steady evolution; a...

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U.S. Circuit Court Deals a Blow to Short-Term Platforms - ("Airbnb Loses Major Fight Over California City's Rental Law," Bloomberg Quint - Stories, March 13, 2019) In somewhat of a surprise ruling issued last week, the...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Disruptive Forces: Antitrust in 2018

Disruptive Forces 2 - - Netflix – a threat to broadcast and cable TV operators? - Amazon – a threat to grocery and retail more broadly? - Apple and Facebook – a threat to would-be rivals? - Google – a threat to...more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update - July 21st, 2017

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Integration of Short-Term Rentals Continues [METASEARCH / SHORT-TERM RENTALS] - ("Google Is Testing Vacation Rental Search in Its Hotel Price-Comparison Tool," Skift Travel News, July 20, 2017) - In what was an...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Corporate Investigations and White Collar Defense - March 2017

DOJ's New Guidance for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs - Why it matters: On February 8, 2017, the DOJ released, to little fanfare, a new guidance document entitled "Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs."...more

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EU Merger Control Procedural & Jurisdictional Aspects: Reply To The European Commission Consultation

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We welcome the opportunity to provide comments to the European Commission in its evaluation of procedural and jurisdictional aspects of EU merger control. A NEW JURISDICTIONAL THRESHOLD - We respond here to section...more

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Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 9.26.16

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The Deal Professor weighs in on Yahoo’s announcement last week of the hack of roughly 500 million of its customers’ data and the specter of the MAC (material adverse change) that Verizon may choose to invoke to dance away...more

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Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 8.31.16

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Continual rejections worked for Hershey in fending off Mondelez’s takeover bid. The Deal Professor thinks that Tronc faces considerable risks in following the same strategy with Gannett’s repeated overtures....more

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Technology Companies Continue Their Automotive Invasion

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As we have written about before, the difference between technology companies and automotive companies is getting smaller and smaller. That trend continues to progress. Samsung Electronics Ltd. is closer to becoming an...more

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Weekly Web Wrap-Up

Welcome to Sheppard Mullin’s Weekly Web Wrap-Up, a quick list of the past week’s top news in the social media, gaming, and virtual goods and currencies industries curated by Social Media & Games Team. Here are some of the...more

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