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Competition and Markets Authority

January 2024

  • A shopping trolley outside a Tesco Extra supermarket

    Buying bigger packs may not get best deal in UK supermarkets, says watchdog

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    Healthy competition is good for keeping wages up, as well as prices down

    Torsten Bell
  • Hilary Osborne

    ‘Now even smaller’ and ‘All new, worse recipe’: these are the labels you won’t see on food – but you should

    Hilary Osborne
  • Daily Telegraph newspapers on a shelf

    Telegraph takeover decision put back by fresh inquiry into Barclay family’s UAE-backed deal

  • UK regulator launches investigation into Vodafone-Three merger

  • Telegraph takeover: UK government intends to order new investigation into deal

  • Fake reviews and hidden online charges to be banned under new rules

  • Danone to cut 7% off wholesale price of powdered Aptamil baby formula

December 2023

  • Illustration of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard game characters

    UK mergers and acquisitions fall 33% to hit lowest level since 2009

    Total value of mergers and acquisitions dealmaking fell to just over $265bn, down from $395bn
  • Adobe offices in San Francisco

    Adobe drops $20bn takeover of Figma after EU and UK regulator concerns

    UK’s CMA said deal would threaten competition in the product design, image editing and illustration markets
    • Viewpoint column
      Be glad UK’s watchdog has its eyes on what just happened at OpenAI

      Nils Pratley
    • UK watchdog to examine Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI

    • Iceland boss hits out at parent ‘exploitation’ in baby milk market

November 2023

  • A woman holds a bottle of baby formula

    UK competition watchdog to investigate baby formula market

  • Amazon logo on a smartphone

    Amazon and Facebook owner Meta agree to protect consumers, CMA says

October 2023

  • Visitors pass an advertisement for the Activision Blizzard video game Call of Duty at a computer games fair in Cologne, Germany

    Microsoft completes $69bn deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard

    Completion of sale follows regulator’s decision to allow it after competition concerns were addressed
  • a camera lens close up of the BBC logo

    BBC and ITV among broadcasters investigated over possible competition law breaches

    Regulator to look into use of freelancers and agencies to produce, create and broadcast content across UK
  • amazon logo seen on a laptop screen as a woman types

    CMA to investigate UK cloud computing market amid Microsoft and Amazon concerns

    Media watchdog refers £7.5bn sector to competition regulator after being ‘particularly concerned’ about position of market leaders

September 2023

  • Activision's Call of Duty on a smartphone near a photograph of the Microsoft logo

    UK set to clear Microsoft’s deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard

  • ChatGPT logo on a mobile phone screen

    AI boom may not have positive outcome, warns UK competition watchdog

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