by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Competition & Antitrust, Landmark Antitrust Cases
⚡ TL;DRBlocked mergers teach more than cleared ones. GE/Honeywell (2001) proved regimes can diverge irreconcilably; Siemens/Alstom (2019) proved political pressure does not move the Commission; JetBlue/Spirit and Kroger/Albertsons (2024) proved US agencies can win...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Competition & Antitrust, Landmark Antitrust Cases
⚡ TL;DRApple’s antitrust decade produced a split verdict: it largely won Epic v. Apple in US court (no monopoly finding, but an anti-steering injunction it was later held in contempt of), lost €1.84 billion in the EU music-streaming case, and became the...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Competition & Antitrust, Landmark Antitrust Cases
⚡ TL;DRRegulators break companies up rarely — Standard Oil (1911) and AT&T (1984) remain the only giant structural dissolutions in US history — because breakups demand a clean structural theory of harm, separable businesses and judicial stamina. But separation is...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Competition & Antitrust, Landmark Antitrust Cases
⚡ TL;DRGoogle has faced the broadest antitrust campaign ever mounted against one company: EU fines of €2.42 billion (Shopping), €4.34 billion (Android), €1.49 billion (AdSense — later annulled) and €2.95 billion (adtech, 2025); a US court finding...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Competition & Antitrust, Landmark Antitrust Cases
⚡ TL;DRUnited States v. Microsoft (1998–2001) established that a dominant platform may not use exclusionary tactics to protect its monopoly against nascent threats — Netscape’s browser and Java. The breakup order was reversed on appeal, but the liability...
