Apple CEO Tim Cook lobbied U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for 40 minutes on Wednesday about antitrust legislation to be debated…
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Lawsuit alleges that Google pays Apple to steer clear of search engine market
California Crane School filed a class action antitrust case basically alleging that Google pays Apple to stay out of the search engine market…
Antitrust watchdog in India orders probe into Apple’s App Store
India’s competition watchdog on Friday ordered an investigation into Apple’s App Store business practices in the country, saying it was…
U.S. DOJ probes Apple’s treatment of Roblox
The U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust probe into Apple is focused, in one example, on the company’s treatment of Roblox which…
Apple begins legal action against Russian antitrust regulator in App Store dispute
Apple has started legal proceedings against Russia’s anti-monopoly regulator in a dispute concerning alternative payment options o…
Apple defeats antitrust class action challenging App Store control
Finding fatal flaws in an antitrust lawsuit claiming Apple monopolizes iOS app distribution, a U.S. federal judge this week threw out a…
Apple and Amazon hit with $225 million in antitrust fines in Italy
Italy’s antitrust authority has fined Apple and Amazon a total of more than 200 million euros ($225 million) for alleged anti-competitive…
Apple attacks France’s record $1.3 billion fine over reseller deals
Apple attacked antitrust regulators in France after they slapped the company with a record 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) fine for…
Apple very likely to face U.S. DOJ antitrust suit
In the last several months the U.S. Department of Justice has accelerated its two-year-old antitrust probe of Apple, increasing the…
Apple updates App Store guidelines as part of settlement agreement with U.S. developers
Apple in August announced settlement consisting of a number of changes coming to the App Store guidelines that, pending court approval, will…
New legislation aims at Apple, Google, and Facebook as U.S. attempts to catch up to Europe
New legislation seeks to establish new U.S. law on Section 230 protections and platforms’ habit of preferring their own services…
EU antitrust regulators poised to charge Apple over its NFC chip tech
EU antitrust regulators are set to charge Apple with anti-competitive practices related to its NFC chip technology, people familiar with the…
Apple, other big tech firms get to belatedly weigh in on U.S. House antitrust bills
Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon will receive a belated chance to provide feedback on U.S. House antitrust bills that, if passed…
Google, fighting record $5.1 billion EU fine, slams regulators for ignoring Apple
Google on Monday launched a bid to get Europe to annul a record $5.1 billion fine and blasted EUn antitrust regulators for “ignoring” Apple …
Judge: Epic Games failed to demonstrate that Apple is an ‘illegal monopolist’
Epic Games failed to demonstrate that Apple is an “illegal monopolist,” California federal judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled Friday…
Roger McNamee: ‘Apple does not appear to recognize how vulnerable it is in a changing political landscape’
Roger McNamee warns in an open letter that “Apple does not appear to recognize how vulnerable it is in a changing political landscape.”
Apple’s stock heads toward record after concessions for Netflix, Spotify, other ‘reader’ apps
Apple shares were poised to close at a record high Thursday after the most valuable U.S. company announced it will let Spotify, Netflix…
Apple to allow ‘reader’ apps to link to external websites for users to set up or manage accounts
Apple will let developers of “reader” apps – think Spotify, Netflix, Kindle, etc. – around the world link to an external website to set up…
Apple tries to stay ahead of the oncoming regulatory wave
As Apple tries to stay ahead of the oncoming regulatory wave, the compnay has refined its App Store rules, now allowing app developers…
Spotify says Apple’s App Store settlement is not enough
Swedish music streaming platform Spotify said on Friday that Apple’s App Store settlement does not address the…
App Store settlement is another win for Apple
Apple on Thursday announced settlement consisting of a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will…
Apple’s strategically shrewd App Store settlement
Apple on Thursday announced settlement consisting of a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will resolve…
Apple, U.S. developers agree to App Store changes to resolve class-action lawsuit
Apple today announced a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will resolve a class-action suit from…
Apple tried to hire away former Google search chief Ben Gomes
When Apple went after a pair of high-profile managers for its Siri and artificial intelligence groups: Google’s top brass overseeing search …
36 U.S. states sue Alphabet for ‘unlawfully’ maintaining Google Play Store monopoly on Android phones
Thirty-six U.S. state attorneys general sued Alphabet alleging it unlawfully maintains a monopoly for its Google Play Store on Android phones…
Regulating Apple’s App Store likely to have unintended consequences
With lawmakers are circling Apple, regulating the company’s App Store likely to have unintended consequences, doing more harm than good…
Why has Microsoft been carved out of new U.S. antitrust bills?
Why has convicted monopoly abuser Microsoft avoided scrutiny while openly supporting actions against Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and…
Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers a warning to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Facing “antitrust” legislation that could disrupt business practices of tech companies like Apple, Tim Cook, called Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
Apple letter to U.S. House Judiciary Committee says proposed legislation would ‘harm consumer privacy, device security, and innovation’
Ahead of another House Judiciary Committee hearing on antitrust legislation, Apple has published its full letter explaining how the proposed…
Apple says third-party app stores would subject users to scammers
Apple said that requiring apps to be downloaded from the App Store protects consumers against scammers, keeps their privacy secure…
German antitrust watchdog announces probe of Apple
Apple became the latest target of a German antitrust crackdown on tech giants’ market power with the Federal Cartel Office announcing…
Democrat David Cicilline wants to ban Apple from preinstalling apps on iPhones
Apple would be prohibited from preinstalling its own apps on Apple devices under “antitrust reform” legislation introduced last week…
UK to investigate Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ in mobile operating systems
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is taking a closer look at whether Apple’s and Google’s “effective duopoly” over the supply…
Breaking up Big Tech – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook – and in focus as new U.S. antitrust bills introduced
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced four antitrust bills on Friday aimed at reining in the power…
EU antitrust regulators focus on Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant
EU antitrust regulators said on Wednesday that the market dominance of Apple’s Siri, and knockoffs like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant…
European consumer group joins EU antitrust case against Apple
On Wednesday, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) lobby group on Wednesday backed the European Union’s antitrust case against Apple …
AliveCor antitrust lawsuit claims Apple monopolizes Apple Watch heart-rate technology
A small Silicon Valley company, AliveCor, has filed an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of cornering the market for heart-rate monitoring…
Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies in Epic Games trial
Apple CEO Tim Cook is the third senior-level executive to testifies in the ongoing trial with Epic Games. Following testimonies from Phil…
Apple CEO Tim Cook to take the stand at Epic Games v. Apple trial
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Friday will take the witness stand to defend the App Store in a trial being held in California. “Fortnite” maker Epic…
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been practicing for hours ahead of taking witness stand in Epic Games v. Apple
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been practicing for hours ahead of taking witness stand in the Epic Games v. Apple trial that, regardless of the…
Apple defends App Store review, payment system
Apple provided in-depth detail on how many apps it rejected last year and how its App Store payment system keeps customers secure from fraud…
Qualcomm accuses EU of pro-Apple ‘bias’ in $1.2 billion court fight
Qualcomm accused European Union investigators of being “biased” towards Apple when they ordered a 997 million-euro (US$1.2 billion) antitrust…
