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With icons like Taylor Swift on tour this summer, concert ticket purchases are booming. Unfortunately, so are ticket scams. In 2022, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) received over 140 reports on ...
Ticketmaster and Microsoft attempted to forge an agreement to allow Microsoft to have deep links to Ticketmaster. [6] After the talks reached a stalemate and without permission from Ticketmaster, [6] Microsoft used the deep links on its Sidewalk.com website, [6] a Seattle city guide that provided details about future events in the area. [7]
United States, et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C., against entertainment company Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, following the Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy in 2022.
Ticketmaster was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1976 [5] by college staffers Peter Gadwa and Albert Leffler, Gordon Gunn III, as well as businessman Jerry Nelson. [6] [7] The company originally licensed computer programs and sold hardware for ticketing systems.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the aim is to allow more competition and to let smaller players gain more of the U.S. ticket-selling market — which Ticketmaster The Justice Department is ...
Editor's Note (Feb. 6 at 10:10 a.m.): This article has been updated to note that registration for the Group B and C presales has closed. Demand is already astronomical for tickets to Beyoncé’s ...
On January 25, 2010, the U.S. Justice Department approved the merger pending certain conditions. [13] Ticketmaster had to sell ownership of its self-ticketing company, Paciolan, [13] and license its software to Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), which would allow it to compete "head-to-head" with Ticketmaster for business.
The Justice Department and several states are expected to file a lawsuit as soon as Thursday against Live Nation Inc, citing alleged antitrust violations at least in part due to the market ...