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Tag: European Commission

EU antitrust regulators said ready with Apple charges on Spotify complaint

Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:37 pmThursday, March 4, 20212 Comments

EU antitrust regulators are finalizing a charge sheet against Apple triggered by a complaint by Swedish music streaming service Spotify …

‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games takes its Apple battle to the EU

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 10:35 am5 Comments

“Fortnite” game developer Epic Games said on Wed. that it had filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the EU’s European Commission…

Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm protest Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm Ltd.

Friday, February 12, 2021 3:21 pm3 Comments

Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm are among companies protesting Nvidia $40 billion deal for Arm Ltd. and asking antitrust officials to…

Qualcomm objects to Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion Arm acquisition

Friday, February 12, 2021 12:04 pm3 Comments

Qualcomm has informed regulators around the world that the company is against Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of chip designer Arm …

EU’s Vestager warns Apple to treat all apps equally with privacy consent tool

Monday, February 8, 2021 5:04 pm1 Comment

Europe’s antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, has warned Apple to give equal treatment to all apps on its platform as the company institutes…


In bid to overturn $15.7 billion Apple tax verdict, EU claims court made errors

Monday, February 1, 2021 9:12 am25 Comments

EU antitrust bureaucrats have claimed a court made legal errors when it scrapped their 13 billion euro ($15.7B) Apple tax grab in Ireland…

EU lawmakers want Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google CEOs at Feb. 1 Big Tech hearing

Friday, January 22, 2021 1:01 pmFriday, January 22, 202116 Comments

EU lawmakers have invited the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google to a Big Tech hearing in Brussels on February 1st as they look to…

EU announces sweeping new rules on Big Tech companies

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 5:31 pm7 Comments

“Big Tech” could soon face stiff fines and stricter controls over their behavior as part of sweeping new European Union rules. The remedies…

Apple, other U.S. tech giants face curbs on app stores, data sharing under draft EU rules

Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:06 amWednesday, September 30, 202014 Comments

Apple, Alphabet’s Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other U.S. tech giants could be banned from favoring their apps and services under draft EU rules…

Apple: ‘We have always abided by the law in Ireland,’ as EU appeals tax grab loss

Friday, September 25, 2020 9:10 amMonday, February 1, 202110 Comments

On Friday, Apple said it has always complied with Irish tax laws and that the issue which led to an EU tax order of 13 billion euros…

EU weighs legislation that could force Apple open iPhone NFC chip to third-parties

Thursday, September 24, 2020 11:12 am9 Comments

The European Union is weighing legislation that could force Apple to open iPhone’s NFC chip to competitors. The potential rules would grant…

Apple court triumph forces tough choice for Vestager’s EU tax crusade

Monday, September 21, 2020 11:49 am13 Comments

Apple’s July court triumph over a massive European Union tax grab is forcing antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager to make a tough choice…

EU considers forcing Apple to open iPhone’s NFC chip to third parties

Friday, September 18, 2020 12:21 pm35 Comments

The European Union is considering new rules that would likely require Apple to give third parties access to the NFC chip inside iPhones…

Developers of Telegram app file EU antitrust complaint against Apple

Thursday, July 30, 2020 8:57 am24 Comments

Apple is facing another antitrust complaint in Europe, this time from the developers of encrypted messenger app Telegram …

EU regulators to probe Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and other voice assistants

Thursday, July 16, 2020 10:25 am6 Comments

EU regulators are probing if there are competition problems in the market for voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and other…

Apple wins fight over $14.9 billion tax grab in blow to EU

Wednesday, July 15, 2020 9:00 amWednesday, July 15, 202027 Comments

Apple won its court fight over a record $14.9 billion Irish tax grab in a crushing blow to EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager…

Ruling in EU’s Apple tax grab case due on July 15th

Wednesday, July 8, 2020 8:22 amWednesday, July 8, 20206 Comments

The European Union’s second highest court will next week rule in an appeal by Apple and Ireland against an EU ruling for the U.S. company to pay a tax of…

Apple senior exec on antitrust: We don’t have a dominant position in any market and face strong competition in every category

Tuesday, June 30, 2020 5:27 pm24 Comments

Apple, the target of EU antitrust investigations into key segments of its business, on Tuesday rejected accusations of market dominance, saying…

Apple’s App Store, Apple Pay targeted by EU antitrust regulators

Tuesday, June 16, 2020 9:17 amTuesday, June 16, 202012 Comments

On Tuesday, Apple found itself the target of two EU antitrust investigations into its App Store and Apple Pay.The European Commission said…

Apple limits streaming quality of Apple TV+ in Europe

Saturday, March 21, 2020 1:15 pmSaturday, March 21, 202014 Comments

European officials have instructed streaming services like Apple TV+ to reduce the bandwidth in use by their services. Limiting streaming video quality …

Netflix asked to slow streaming so Internet doesn’t buckle

Thursday, March 19, 2020 2:30 pm23 Comments

Netflix has been asked to slow streaming speeds in order to reduce network bandwidth now that millions of people have committed to staying home…

EU shuts external borders for 30 days over coronavirus pandemic

Tuesday, March 17, 2020 5:01 pm24 Comments

Leaders of European Union countries have agreed to shut the EU’s external borders to most people from other countries for 30 days in a new effort to…

EU lawmakers, eyeing Apple, overwhelmingly call for standard device charger

Thursday, January 30, 2020 1:01 pmThursday, January 30, 202013 Comments

EU lawmakers overwhelmingly called on Thursday for rules to establish a standard charger for all mobile device makers across Europe…

Apple reduces massive bill for back taxes the EU claims it must pay Ireland

Wednesday, January 29, 2020 5:32 pmWednesday, January 29, 2020No Comments

According to regulatory filings, Apple reduced a massive back tax bill it must pay Ireland after other governments claimed a slice of the payment last year…

It’s a bad idea for the EU to force Apple to dump iPhone’s Lightning port

Friday, January 24, 2020 11:08 am11 Comments

Apple disagrees with the European Union’s idea. It’d be a lose-lose-lose situation for the EU to force Apple to dump iPhone’s Lightning port …

Apple pushes back against EU call for common phone charger

Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:05 pm9 Comments

Apple on Thursday again pushed back against European Union lawmakers’ call for a common phone charger standard, warning the move could hamper innovation…

Apple, BMW, and other companies call on EU to take action on patent trolls

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 11:42 pmWednesday, January 15, 2020No Comments

Apple, Microsoft and BMW, together with a wide group of other technology companies and carmakers, called on the EU to take action against patent trolls…

France to force Apple, Netflix, Disney, others to spend 25% of local revenue on content

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 2:01 pmWednesday, January 15, 20209 Comments

France is finalizing a bill to force video-on-demand services from Apple, Netflix, Disney, Amazon and others to invest at least 25% of their revenue…

EU wants to force all smartphone makers to use the same charging port

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:07 am22 Comments

Members of the European Parliament want binding measures for chargers to fit all mobile phones and other portable devices…

EU’s Vestager says she’s received many concerns regarding Apple Pay

Thursday, November 7, 2019 11:16 amThursday, November 7, 201910 Comments

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told a news briefing at Web Summit that she has received many expressions…

Apple TV+ may struggle to meet European quotas for locally-produced content at launch

Friday, September 27, 2019 8:55 am8 Comments

Apple may initially struggle to meet local programming and investment obligations in Europe that include the requirement…

Starbucks wins, Fiat loses, Apple kept guessing in EU tax grab rulings

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:42 am44 Comments

Starbucks Corp. won a court fight and a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV unit lost one over European Union tax orders in decisions…

Apple may get clues about its chances of winning tax case of the century

Monday, September 23, 2019 10:28 am4 Comments

Apple has been arguing its case at the European Union’s General Court to topple a record 13 billion-euro ($14.3 billion) EU tax order…

Apple and Ireland blast European Commission’s ‘fairy story’ behind $14 billion EU tax grab

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 12:02 pmWednesday, September 18, 20199 Comments

Apple accused the European Commission of misunderstanding its business on day two of the iPhone maker’s appeal against a $14 billion tax order…

Apple slams EU as epic court battle over $14 billion tax clawback commences

Tuesday, September 17, 2019 1:39 pm7 Comments

Lawyers for the world’s biggest company faced EU officials in the Luxembourg court, challenging a decision that CEO Tim Cook slammed at the time as “total political crap” with no basis in law…

Apple says $14 billion EU tax clawback ‘defies reality and common sense’

Tuesday, September 17, 2019 8:39 am25 Comments

Apple is appealing to Europe’s second highest court to overturn the European Commission’s 2016 ruling that it pay the record sum of over 13 billion euros to Ireland…

Apple takes fight against $14.4 billion EU tax grab to court

Monday, September 16, 2019 8:46 amTuesday, September 17, 20196 Comments

Apple is expected to send a six-man delegation headed by Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri to the two-day court hearing…

Apple to fight EU’s $14 billion tax grab in European court next month

Friday, August 16, 2019 8:57 am8 Comments

Since 2016, both Apple and Ireland have been denying the merit of the European Union’s tax clawback…

Apple, not Google or Facebook, the target of global antitrust regulators

Wednesday, August 7, 2019 10:56 amWednesday, August 7, 20196 Comments

Apple – not Facebook or Google – is rapidly emerging as the test case for how officials in Brussels, Washington and beyond clamp down on Big Tech’s digital empires…

Britain’s new leader Boris Johnson vows to get Brexit done

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 8:58 amTuesday, July 23, 201915 Comments

Boris Johnson, the ebullient Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by Halloween…

Qualcomm fined $272 million by EU for predatory pricing

Thursday, July 18, 2019 11:26 amThursday, July 18, 20194 Comments

Qualcomm said in a statement it will appeal and “expose the meritless nature of this decision.”

Qualcomm set to face second EU antitrust fine soon

Thursday, July 18, 2019 8:05 amNo Comments

Qualcomm could be hit with a second EU antitrust fine as soon as Thursday for blocking a rival…

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