LinkedIn Settles Professional Social Networking Monopoly Claims

LinkedIn Corp. has reached a settlement in a case accusing it of unlawful practices that hindered would-be rivals from competing in the professional social networking market.

The proposed deal doesn’t include a payment to plaintiffs but would stop LinkedIn from enforcing certain “noncompetition” provisions of agreements to access its data, deals that allegedly allow the company to dominate the industry.

LinkedIn, a subsidiary of Microsoft Corp., has largely avoided the antitrust scrutiny that other tech platforms have seen from both private plaintiffs and federal regulators in recent years.

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