Here you will find all the articles with the tag: antitrust.
Alphabet’s Google has asked a judge presiding over the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it to compel Microsoft to turn over documents, saying that the software giant failed to comply with a subpoena. The information comes from a court filing unsealed late Thursday. Google serve... Read more
3 years ago
Reuters reports that Alphabet’s Google will bring a case to overturn the record fine of 4.34 billion euro's (5.15 billion dollars) handed to it by the EU watchdog. The case against the fine will be heard in September over five days, at Europe's second-highest court. Google got the fine for anti-c... Read more
3 years ago
Germany's antitrust regulator, the Federal Cartel Office, said on Tuesday that it will start proceedings against Google Germany, Google Ireland, and Alphabet (the company that owns them). The charges brought are about the exploitation of market domination and data collected for that purpose. The... Read more
3 years ago
Germany’s antitrust watchdog announced that it has opened an investigation into whether Amazon, the US retail giant, is leveraging its market dominance in unfair and illegal ways. The Federal Cartel Office said that the first step for the watchdog will be to look into whether Amazon is “of outs... Read more
3 years ago
Google has abused its position in the online advertising market. The company gave priority to ads bought via its own advertising tool. This is evident from a document that was accidentally submitted uncensored in a competition lawsuit against Google in Texas, writes The Wall Street Journal. The ... Read more
3 years ago
They want to oversee small-value acquisitions in order to protect competition. EU antitrust regulators want to have more say over small merger deals involving start-ups in the technology, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. This is according to a report in Reuters that appeared last wee... Read more
3 years ago
Apple has responded to the suggestion that the company maintains a monopoly with its App Store policy. The company suggests that iOS users can also consume digital content via websites. The response follows an investigation by the Australian Competition Authority into Apple's App Store policies.... Read more
3 years ago
Apple has responded to complaints received by the Australian consumer commission from developers. The developers felt that Apple was not properly accessible to consult on the app review process. Last autumn, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched an investigation into... Read more
3 years ago
The White House announced on Friday that the new economic advisers and vocal big tech critic Tim Wu would help the President Joe Biden administration deal with the big tech issues cropping up. Tim Wu is expected to help the president push his agenda on the technology sector. Most of what the adm... Read more
3 years ago
The company that created Fortnite, Epic Games, is taking its fight with Apple to the European Union’s antitrust regulators, after attempts to make headway in a US court failed. The case was over a dispute involving Apple’s iPhone maker’s payment system in its App Store and control over apps d... Read more
3 years ago
