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Showing posts with label antitrust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antitrust. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

To contradict consistent record of impotence, DOT opens needed inquiry into airline miles programs

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Washington, D.C.— The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) last week opened an investigation of airline frequent-flier programs, and it'...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Can't see sports, Oscars without channel-bundle subscription you don't want? Let regulators know

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Gencraft I filed a comment today with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice regarding the Disney-Fox-Warner sport stream...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Hertz/Thrifty takes reservations for cars it doesn't have, stranding customers; worse, that's the business model

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I've been locked in pre-litigation combat with Hertz Corp. for almost a year, and I'm tapping out. The problem is simple: The Thrift...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

U.S. Soccer, FIFA lose antitrust appeal; defense shows short-sighted strategy to develop soccer in America

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Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Real Madrid against Barcelona in 2011. Jan S0L0 via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 U.S. Soccer and the Fédération Internat...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Gladstone, Doctorow game out tech reg quagmire

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Cory Doctorow Houari B. via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 On the Media 's Brooke Gladstone talked to Cory Doctorow, author, internet activist,...
Monday, January 30, 2023

Senate inquisition of Ticketmaster is antitrust theater

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Ginny via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Inquisition of Ticketmaster in the Senate last week made headlines , but it's so much antitrust theater, ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Proposed Biden rule would try again to compel airline pricing transparency; it worked out so well last time

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President Biden has his own plane. (U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr ) The U.S. Department of Transportation (DO...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

FTC finally notices abuse of customers, shady business practices by car rental industry

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In an omnibus resolution late last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) green-lighted investigation of the car rental industry. Earlie...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

NBC resists TV free market, overcharges U.S. viewers: PL football costs $20 in Canada, $70 in United States

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Each year, I become freshly enraged at the cost of seeing Premier League football in the United States, a ready example of antitrust non-enf...
Monday, January 24, 2022

American Airlines resists transparency, sues 'Points Guy' for tortious interference, trademark infringement

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Photo by RJ Peltz-Steele at O.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020 ( CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) The Points Guy ( TPG ) h...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

U.S. rental car oligopoly hits new lows, as customers alleging false arrests intervene in Hertz bankruptcy

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Photo by Diego Angel CC BY 3.0 A curious story of alleged false arrests and a corporate lawyer's blunder surfaced in business media ea...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

While U.S. Congress ponders Big Tech oligopoly, Uruguay Supreme Court upholds TV football for all

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While our powers-that-be in Congress wring their hands over trying to reconcile allegiance to our corporate overlords with antitrust in the ...
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