It does need at least an implied agreement of companies intentionally working together to raise prices. A computer program to determine your own prices does not imply working with any other company.
Price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors to raise, lower, maintain, or stabilize prices or price levels. Generally, the antitrust laws require that each company establish prices and other competitive terms on its own, without agreeing with a competitor.
None of that is what this article is talking about. This is just about them raising prices.
Price fixing, whether explicit or implied from conduct, is absolutely something anti-trust regulations were designed to prevent.
Price fixing involves multiple companies working together
Which is exactly what was described in the article.
Mmm no its describing an algorithm of raising prices for their own products
Yes, which is the price-fixing I was talking about. There doesn’t need to be an overt agreement to fall under price fixing.
It does need at least an implied agreement of companies intentionally working together to raise prices. A computer program to determine your own prices does not imply working with any other company.
Go ahead and tell the FTC that you know the law better than they do.
let them tell you https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/dealings-competitors/price-fixing