Director of Europe & transatlantic partnerships Max von Thun talks about the advancement of new antimonopoly enforcements on Big Tech in the UK.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley discusses market definition and its prevalence in antitrust litigation.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore how Big Tech behemoths have always controlled the destiny of digital media outlets like BuzzFeed News, which shut down last week.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Policy Counsel Tara Pincock released the following statement in reaction to the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court’s decision to uphold Apple’s numerous violations of our antitrust laws.
Read MoreEurope Director Max von Thun put out an Open Markets statement on the CMA’s valiant actions against Big Tech’s attempted dominance by denying Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute released the following statement from Europe Director Max von Thun following the UK Government’s publication of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill, a major new piece of legislation targeting Big Tech’s market power.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun, alongside a group of leading European civil society organizations, has submitted a detailed response to the European Commission’s call for evidence on future guidelines on enforcement of Article 102 TFEU, one of the European Union’s key antitrust laws.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute today led a coalition of fifty civil society groups that urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ban non-compete clauses as well as functionally equivalent restraints.
Read MoreIn this issue, we review a new UK law that would help protect citizens from Big Tech predation but still lacks strong political support.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes on the methods used by companies that spread beyond the utilization of noncompete clauses.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes about how we shall ensure labor benefits from the veritable renaissance of long-dormant antitrust enforcement in the US under the Biden Administration.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute writes a letter on how Canada could strengthen its antimonopoly laws, including on merger review, exclusive dealing and other forms of unfair competition and vertical restraints.
Open Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun released the following statement with regard to Apple’s designation as a “platform of paramount significance for competition” under Section 19a of the German Competition Act (GWB), and the approval by Germany’s federal cabinet of new powers for Germany’s competition regulator the Bundeskartellamt.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and that Union of Open Markets Staff have ratified their inaugural collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the first union contract for employees at Open Markets.
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