EU opens antitrust probe into Align over Invisalign and scanner tying
EU opens antitrust probe into Align over Invisalign and scanner tying

The European Commission has decided to look closely at how you straighten teeth, or more precisely, at the machine a dentist uses to scan them. Brussels has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Align Technology, the American company behind Invi…

Australia sues Amazon over Prime Video ads, citing unfair contract terms
Australia sues Amazon over Prime Video ads, citing unfair contract terms

The ACCC alleges Amazon buried unfair terms in Prime contracts, then used them to add ads to Prime Video for more than a million subscribers without offering refunds. The complaint Australia’s consumer regulator filed against Amazon this week turns on …

Swatch wants $170m from Samsung over copied watch faces
Swatch wants $170m from Samsung over copied watch faces

A London court already found 26 of Samsung’s smartwatch faces infringed Swatch trademarks. Now the two sides are fighting over the bill. The fight between a Swiss watchmaker and the world’s largest phone maker has come down to a number, and the number …

Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise
Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise

The regulator says customers were moved to a pricier Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with too little information to choose. The mechanics of a price rise can matter as much as the price itself, which is the question Italy’s competi…

Harvey confirms $11B valuation: Sequoia triples down

Investors like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Elad Gil can’t get enough of AI legal tech startup Harvey.