US Supreme Court rejects software giant SAP’s bid to avoid rival’s antitrust suit

The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Europe’s largest software maker SAP to avoid a lawsuit by US data technology company Teradata that accused it of violating American antitrust law.

The justices turned away SAP’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that let Teradata pursue claims that its larger German rival violated US antitrust law by tying sales of business-planning applications to the purchase of a key SAP database that can perform transactional and analytical functions. San Diego-based Teradata makes a rival analytics…