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U.S. Justice Department sues Google for monopolizing digital advertising technologies
Today, the U.S. Justice Department filed a civil antitrust suit against Google for monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology…
Apple faces antitrust probe from Brazil antitrust watchdog
Brazil’s antitrust watchdog Cade has started an investigation into Apple for alleged abuse of a dominant position…
U.S. ITC: Apple Watches with ECG infringe AliveCor patents, but import ban on hold
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) affirmed on Thursday that Apple Watches with an electrocardiogram (ECG) function…
MercadoLibre files complaints in Brazil and Mexico against Apple for ‘anti-competitive practices’
E-commerce giant MercadoLibre said on Monday it has filed complaints against Apple with antitrust regulators in Brazil and Mexico for…
Italian court accepts Apple’s appeal against watchdog fine, rejects Google’s
An Italian administrative court on Friday accepted Apple’s appeal against a decision by Italy’s antitrust authority to fine the group, but…
Fortnite-maker Epic Games vows to fight Apple antitrust ruling at appeal hearing
Fortnite-maker Epic Games on Monday will try to overturn portions of a court ruling in an antitrust trial last year that largely favored Apple…
Apple plans appeal to completely overturn already-slashed French antitrust fine
Apple on Thursday said it plans to appeal a French antitrust fine that was slashed to roughly a third of the original amount, saying the…
French court cuts antitrust fine against Apple from 1.1 billion to 372 million euros
A French court on Thursday substantially lowered a fine against Apple for alleged anti-competitive behavior to 372 million euros…
Italian court scraps antitrust fine on Apple and Amazon for alleged collusion
An Italian court scrapped a fine imposed by the country’s antitrust authority on Apple and Amazon for alleged collusion, a court document…
U.S. DOJ antitrust officials ask to join arguments in Epic Games’ appeal of a court loss against Apple
According to court documents filed Friday, officials from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have asked to take part in oral arguments…
EU court fines Google $4.13 billion for using Android to thwart rivals
Europe’s second-highest court fined Alphabet subsidiary Google $4.13 billion for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals…
Apple and Google face anti-competitive complaint in Mexico
Apple and Alphabet subsidiary Google are facing a probe over anti-competitive practices in Mexico after the country’s former…
U.S. antitrust bill on brink of defeat
Legislation pushed by some in the U.S. Congress claiming to rein in the nation’s biggest internet companies is on the brink of defeat…
Apple ‘well positioned’ to beat a DOJ antitrust lawsuit – analyst
The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to file a sweeping antitrust complaint against Apple, however an analyst believes that Apple…
U.S. DOJ in early stages of drafting possible antitrust suit against Apple
The U.S. Department of Justice is in the early stages of drafting a potential antitrust complaint against Apple…
Tinder-owner Match Group files antitrust claim against Apple in India
Tinder-owner Match Group has filed an antitrust claim against Apple with the Competition Commission of India (CCI), accusing…
Antitrust regulators focus on Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome web browsers
Of late, regulators and rivals are again questioning whether web browsers, especially Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome, are too tightly…
U.S. DOJ preparing to sue Alphabet’s Google for illegally dominating digital advertising market
The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to sue Alphabet for illegally dominating digital advertising market via its Google search engine…
Clock running out on U.S. Congress’ antitrust bill targeting Big Tech
In a setback for supporters in the U.S. House and Senate who had been pushing for a vote before the midterm elections, Congress is set…
Apple’s inscrutable black box: Services
Apple’s fiscal Q322 quarter ended June 25th, showed that the company’s Services business posted a 12% growth rate that was significantly…
French app developers sue Apple over App Store fees
Apple was sued on Monday by French app developers that accused the company of violating U.S. antitrust law by overcharging for its App Store …
U.S. Big Tech antitrust legislation flounders as Schumer expresses doubts
Antitrust legislation aimed at “Big Tech” companies appears stymied after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told a group…
Tech antitrust bill seeks to regulate Big Tech, change the Internet
U.S. lawmakers are eyeing votes prior to the midterm elections in November on antitrust legislation (named by supporters…
Apple CEO Tim Cook personally lobbying U.S. Congress to stop antitrust bills
Apple CEO Tim Cook is reportedly personally lobbying U.S. Congressmen and women in an effort to stop antitrust bills targeting Apple…
Facing stalemate, backers of U.S. big tech antitrust bill push for vote
Facing a potential stalemate, U.S. lawmakers House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.), Rep. David Cicilline (D., R.I.)…
Affinity Credit Union lawsuit accuses Apple of antitrust violations over Apple Pay
Apple on Monday was hit with a lawsuit in a proposed class action by payment card issuers accusing the company of abusing its Apple Pay …
Apple App Store resolves dating apps issues, Dutch regulator says
The Dutch consumer protection regulator claims that Apple “has changed its unfair conditions,” ending a dispute after penalizing…
U.S. Senate likely to pass bill to bar Apple, Google, other tech firms from favoring themselves in searches
Lawmakers from both parties said on Wednesday they had the Senate votes needed to pass legislation aimed at reining in Apple…
Vulnerable U.S. Senate Democrats back off bill seeking Big Tech crackdown
A bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the nation’s largest tech companies is facing fresh resistance from a faction of Senate Democrats…
Apple faces new Dutch fines in ongoing dating apps dispute
The Dutch consumer protection regulator is preparing to hit Apple with even more weekly fines as it claims that the changes Apple made…
Russian court rules antitrust case against Apple can proceed
A Russian court in Moscow on Thursday ruled that Russia’s anti-monopoly regulator can proceed in opening an antitrust case against Apple …
Apple spends record quarterly high on lobbying
Amid increased pressure from the U.S. Congress alleging antitrust issues, Apple spent $2.5 million on lobbying in the first three months…
Apple said to face extra EU antitrust charge in music streaming probe
Apple faces an additional EU antitrust charge in the coming weeks over Apple Music in an investigation triggered by a complaint from Spotify…
U.S. DOJ backs antitrust bill targeting Apple, Google, and Amazon
The U.S. DOJ on Monday endorsed legislation forbidding large digital platforms such as Apple, Google, and Amazon from…
Dutch regulator reviewing Apple’s dating apps dispute proposal after levying $55 million in fines
The Dutch regulator is reviewing Apple Inc.’s proposal in a dispute over payment systems for dating applications after penalizing…
Dutch watchdog fines Apple $5.7 million for ninth straight week
Apple is set to be hit with a tenth consecutive weekly fine for allegedly not fully complying with an order to open its App Store to rival…
Apple files arguments with appeals court over Epic Games’ ‘unfounded’ antitrust claims
In its appeal, Apple said a U.S. District Judge’s ruling that it was violating California’s unfair-competition law should be overturned…
Dutch watchdog fines Apple $5.7 million for sixth straight week
The Dutch antitrust regulator on Monday issued a sixth straight weekly fine of 5 million euros ($5.7 million) against Apple for what…
Why Apple keeps racking up multimillion-dollar fines in The Netherlands
Last year, the Dutch equivalent of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission became one of the first regulators in the world to require Apple to…
Apple hit with fifth $5.7 million fine in Dutch App Store dispute
The Dutch antitrust watchdog Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) fined Apple 5 million euros, or $5.7 million, for the fifth…
Publisher trade group backs U.S. Big Tech antitrust bills opposed by Apple
A group representing publishers wrote to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to back two bills targeting Big Tech, incl…
