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Apple wins fight over $14.9 billion tax grab in blow to EU
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
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
Apple, the target of EU antitrust investigations into key segments of its business, on Tuesday rejected accusations of market dominance, saying…
Loose European coalition forms on coronavirus contact tracing
A loose European coalition is forming around an approach to using smartphone technology for coronavirus contact tracing. Supporters of the decentralized…
EU welcomes Apple-Google contact-tracing tech
Technologists focusing on contact-tracing as they race to try to use Bluetooth short-range communications between devices as a proxy for measuring the risk…
Irish prime minister: Ireland cannot tap Apple tax fund to fight coronavirus
Irish PM Leo Varadkar said on Monday that Ireland cannot use the more than 14 billion euros (US$15.1 billion) in disputed taxes it has collected from Apple
Apple limits streaming quality of Apple TV+ in Europe
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
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
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…
An iPhone with a removable battery is a horrible idea
The EU is currently drafting legislation that would legally require tech companies like Apple to make products like iPhone with removable batteries …
Proposed EU law looks to force Apple iPhone to have removable batteries
Leaked EU proposals could force smartphone manufacturers to to make all smartphones, including Apple’s iPhone, to feature removable batteries…
EU lawmakers, eyeing Apple, overwhelmingly call for standard device charger
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
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
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
Apple on Thursday again pushed back against European Union lawmakers’ call for a common phone charger standard, warning the move could hamper innovation…
UK vows new tax on tech firms will proceed despite U.S. pressure
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has threatened new tariffs on UK carmakers after UK Chancellor Sajid Javid said the UK would not back down over the tax…
Apple, BMW, and other companies call on EU to take action on patent trolls
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
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
Members of the European Parliament want binding measures for chargers to fit all mobile phones and other portable devices…
Pound sterling surges as Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is projected to win UK election in landslide
The Conservative Party would win 368 seats if the poll proves accurate, granting a comfortable majority in Parliament. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on course for the biggest Tory landslide since Margaret Thatcher…
EU’s Vestager says she’s received many concerns regarding Apple Pay
European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told a news briefing at Web Summit that she has received many expressions…
Apple Pay draws EU antitrust scrutiny
Apple Pay has drawn the focus of European Union antitrust investigators, who have solicited payment companies for feedback on the service…
Starbucks wins, Fiat loses, Apple kept guessing in EU tax grab rulings
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
Qualcomm could be hit with a second EU antitrust fine as soon as Thursday for blocking a rival…
Ireland invests disputed Apple taxes in low-risk bonds
Ireland’s debt agency has invested disputed taxes collected from Apple in low risk, highly rated euro-dominated fixed income securities…
President Trump suggests European Union out of line in suing U.S. tech firms
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested the European Union was out of line in suing U.S. technology companies…
Apple to extend iPhone NFC capabilities for EU Brexit app by end of 2019
Apple will expand the iPhone’s NFC chip reading capabilities before the end of 2019…
Europe fines Google $1.7 billion for freezing out online advertising rivals
Europe’s antitrust regulators slapped Google with a big fine Wednesday for the third time…
Austrian data privacy activist files complaint against Apple, others for failing to fully comply with GDPR
Apple and Amazon are among eight tech firms named in a complaint filed in Austria by non-profit organization noyb…
Google to charge Android phone peddlers for its Android apps in Europe
After receiving a record-breaking €4.34 billion fine in the EU for violating anti-trust laws…
Second term unlikely for EU commissioner Margrethe Vestager
European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, a former leader of a political party…
Apple acquires Shazam, offering more ways to discover and enjoy music; Shazam app will soon become ad-free for all users
Apple today announced it has completed its acquisition of Shazam…
