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The DOJ's March 2024 antitrust case against Apple and the defenses Apple is assembling.
Judge Jeffrey White certified a class of every US card issuer that paid Apple its Apple Pay fees of 0.15% on credit and half a cent on debit. Those fees are still charged on every tap while the case runs, so certification gives issuers more leverage in court well before it lowers what they pay.
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Paramount says the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar will take its indirect foreign ownership to 49.5 percent. The FCC approved that. The purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery still waits on a March antitrust trial.
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A judge in San Francisco will decide whether roughly $5.89 million in PlayStation Store credit, spread over 4,407,533 accounts, closes the Sherman Act case over Sony's 2019 decision to stop supplying retail download codes.
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Jose Linares held that agencies which inform executive branch policy count as the United States itself, so Apple can pull the security and purchasing records behind the government's own phone choices without a third-party burden test.
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Twelve states sued to block the $111 billion Paramount-Warner deal. The reply travelling furthest is an Iowa op-ed that totals up the ticking fee while leaving the deal's economics to a promise about movie counts.
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Apple says the Justice Department's bid to undo its right to subpoena 14 federal agencies "fails at every level." What is actually at stake is whether its justification defense gets documents.
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