LinkedIn Inc. has urged a California federal court to consider a recent Ninth Circuit decision in a Federal Trade Commission antitrust case against Qualcomm, saying the ruling backs up the professional networking site’s argument that it has no duty to let rival startup hiQ use automated bots to scrape its data…
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The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice gave pharmaceutical giants including Eli Lilly & Co., Amgen Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline PLC a green light on Thursday for limited sharing of information about a possible treatment for COVID-19…
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Facebook has dodged a suit by a handful of tech companies alleging the social media giant intentionally set out to destroy app developers it deemed potential rivals, though the California federal judge who tossed the case said the companies could come back with a retooled complaint…
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GrubHub Inc., DoorDash Inc., Postmates Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc.’s Eats platform were hit with a proposed class action Monday in New York federal court alleging diners across the U.S. are being hurt by the monopolistic behavior of the companies behind the nation’s top food delivery apps…
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A D.C. federal court ruled Friday that Surescripts LLC can’t kill a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission, which accused the company of using contract terms and other tactics to illegally maintain its monopoly over electronic prescription services…
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