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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…
Apple hit with fourth $5.7 million fine in Dutch App Store dispute
The Dutch antitrust watchdog fined Apple 5 million euros ($5.7 million) on Monday, its fourth such fine for allegedly failing to allow…
Apple CEO Tim Cook lobbied U.S. Senator Ted Cruz for 40 minutes about antitrust bills
Apple CEO Tim Cook lobbied U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for 40 minutes on Wednesday about antitrust legislation to be debated…
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…
