Antitrust

Judge in U.S. v. Google Will Take One Year to Deliver Punishment

In a hearing Friday, Judge Amit P. Mehta gave prosecutors in U.S. v. Google until…

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UK CMA Finds Google Has Abused Its Advertising Dominance

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it has provisionally found that Google…

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Microsoft Says Apple Still Charges Too Much in Mobile Store

Microsoft has submitted a filing with the UK CMA explaining that Apple's mobile app store…

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Apple Broke a Key Spotify Connect Feature

Apple is up to its usual shenanigans, artificially hobbling competitors while it pretends to conform…

Yelp v. Google

Yelp Sues Google for Antitrust Abuses

Now that Google Search is an illegal monopoly in the United States, the vultures are…

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Epic Games Store Launches on Android and iPhone

Epic Games today launched its mobile app store, Epic Games Store, on Android and iPhone,…

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Judge in Epic. v. Google Comes Out Swinging in Remedy Hearing

US District Judge James Donato was harshly critical of Google during a remedy hearing in…

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Apple Will Open NFC to Developers in iOS 18.1

In July, Apple announced it would open up NFC on the iPhone to third-party developers…

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U.S. Considers a Google Breakup

For the first time since Microsoft about 25 years ago, the U.S. government is considering…

Spotify gets a win in the EU

Apple Finally Relents on Spotify In-App Pricing Communications … But Only in Europe

Five long years after it complained to EU regulators about Apple's anticompetitive business practices, Spotify…

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Apple Changes App Store Rules that Violated the EU DMA

Six weeks after an EU investigation determined that it wasn't complying with the Digital Markets…

Scales of Justice: Microsoft v. Google
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Microsoft the Legal Precedent, Microsoft the … Victim? (Premium)

While the parallels between US v. Google and US v. Microsoft are obvious, it's fascinating…

Google loses big in US antitrust case

Google Loses U.S. Antitrust Case, Search is Illegal Monopoly

A federal judge ruled that Google's search engine is a monopoly and that the firm's…

Apple Files Motion to Dismiss U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit

Apple today filed a motion to dismiss the sweeping antitrust lawsuit brought against it by…

A victory for cookies everywhere

Bowing to Regulatory Pressure, Google Abandons Plans to Kill Third-Party Cookies

After four years of delays, Google has finally abandoned its plans to replace third-party cookies…

Microsoft pays off CISPE

Microsoft Settles with CISPE on Cloud Licensing Issues in EU

Microsoft will pay €20 Million to settle an antitrust complaint about its cloud computing licensing…

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