Apple is facing regulatory trouble in Poland over antitrust concerns related to the App Tracking Transparency for iOS, according to a Monday (Dec. 13) report from Apple Insider. With the introduction of App Tracking Transparency, Apple has limited the amount of data that third-party firms...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is talking to Roblox and other game developers to determine whether Apple’s App Store rules are arbitrarily enforced in a way that harms competitors, The Information reported. During the antitrust lawsuit Epic Games v. Apple, Epic maintained that Apple...
Italy’s antitrust authority fined Amazon.com and Apple, Inc., more than 200 million euros ($225 million) for alleged anti-competitive cooperation related to the sales of Apple and Beats products, according to a Reuters report Tuesday (Nov. 23). A 2018 deal between Amazon and Apple meant the...
Several Chinese companies, including Alibaba, Baidu and JD.com will have $78,000 in fines levied against them stemming from 43 acquisitions that were said to breach the country’s anti-monopoly regulations, according to a Reuters report. The transactions, which were all said to be unreported, date as...
European Union lawmakers are moving forward with a plan to target Big Tech companies’ anticompetitive practices, the Financial Times (FT) reported. Brussels wants to make it so the companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, don’t have as much power in the digital economy,...
In the latest chapter of a struggle involving an Indian retailer, the independent directors of Future Retail have asked the Competition Commission of India (CCI), the country’s antitrust body, to revoke its approval of a 2019 deal in which Amazon purchased 49% of one of...
Amazon wants to settle a pair of antitrust probes in the EU in hopes of avoiding steep fines and directives to alter its business practices, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Nov. 9). Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the news agency said Amazon has begun discussions...
A bipartisan bill that would make it more difficult to complete Big Tech mergers has been introduced in the U.S. Senate. The office of Sen. Amy Klobuchar said she and Sen. Tom Cotton introduced the bill, Reuters reported Friday (Nov. 5). The bill would allow...
China is looking into boosting its antitrust bureau’s status within the market regulatory agency to further fight monopolies, Reuters reported. President Xi Jinping has encouraged the action to improve the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), which was once low-profile, according to the report. That...