Antitrust
Every story tagged antitrust from the last 60 days of the digest, newest first.
15 stories · 12 days · latest Thu 17 Sept 2026
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Thursday 17 September 2026
The Hill
Senate votes to advance bill to regulate college sports, athlete compensationThe Senate advanced the Protect College Sports Act 74-24, shielding the NCAA from antitrust suits and capping revenue sharing and agent fees.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Digiday
As Google's ad tech case nears its end, the antitrust fight moves to AIFurther reading from the day's section on Media and Marketing When the Customer Is a Bot.
Advertising · Antitrust · AI
Friday 11 September 2026
Digiday
"Google avoided (yet another) breakup…"Google avoided a breakup in the ad tech case and faces behavioral remedies, with the next thirty days deciding what Google Ad Manager looks like.
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Digiday
Google divestiture is dead — and publishers are fine with thatGoogle's adtech divestiture is dead, with behavioral remedies instead of an AdX breakup, and publishers appear fine with it.
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Digiday
Google divestiture is dead — and publishers are fine with thatA court declined to force a breakup of Google's ad exchange, and publishers reacted with relief mixed with resignation.
Semafor
Munich's Oktoberfest beer cartelAn antitrust fight inside Munich's $1.8 billion Oktoberfest, with a referendum campaign at 21,000 of 35,000 signatures.
Saturday 5 September 2026
Marketecture
The Verdict Is In! Now What?Ari Paparo argues both prevailing takes on the Google verdict are wrong, and that the DOJ's complex breakup proposal gave Google many targets.
Digiday
Why Google's ad business escaped a breakupBrinkema rejected the structural remedies against Google's ad tech business and accepted the behavioral ones.
Friday 4 September 2026
Digiday
"Why Google's ad business escaped a breakup"Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to break up Google's ad business, and Digiday says its immunity to breakup is starting to feel inevitable.
Digiday
"Ad Tech Briefing: A Google breakup sounds ideal, but the realities are more complicated"Google escaping a breakup of its ad business is the third such outcome in a year, after the Chrome decision and Meta keeping Instagram and WhatsApp.
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Puck
David Ellison Has Gamed Out a California Exit PlanDavid Ellison intends to move Paramount Skydance out of California if Rob Bonta does not settle the WBD antitrust suit by October 1.
Tuesday 11 August 2026
Puck
For Whom the Ellisons TollBill Cohan reports a March trial date for the WarnerMount antitrust suit, close to the June 2027 date when WBD's board can walk.
Sunday 2 August 2026
Puck
"The CompleteAct: California's Antitrust Threat to Hollywood"Eriq Gardner decodes Rob Bonta's antitrust threat, which moves WarnerMount's central legal risk to an elected state AG in Hollywood's home state.
Saturday 1 August 2026
Puck
"The WarnerMount Case Is Just the Beginning"Eriq Gardner argues California's AB 1776, the COMPETE Act, is a bigger antitrust story than the $111 billion WarnerMount fight.
Saturday 25 July 2026
AP
"Paramount agrees to delay Warner Bros. merger"Paramount will close after an antitrust trial or next June, but faces ticking fee payments to investors if the deal drags past September 30.
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