That was just weeks after the EU fined Apple nearly $2 billion for abusing its dominant position in the market in the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users through its App Store.John O'Brennan, a professor of ...
Android, free for device makers to use, is found on about 80% of the world's smartphones. The case is the most important of the European Union's three cases against Google because of Android's market power. Google has racked up more than 8 billion euros in EU...
Court Overturns €1.5 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Against Google The fine marked the third major antitrust penalty against the search giant by the EU in the last decade, following earlier fines related to Android and Google Shopping. However, this is the first of them to be overturned. By...
euro 1.3 billion fines levied in EU price-fixing caseFrom news reports AP
The $1.95 billion fine onMarch 4, 2024, was specifically regarding this anti-steering issue. Apple at the time objected, saying that the EU had failed "to uncover any credible evidence of consumer harm." According toBloomberg, Apple hassubsequently acceptedthe EU's decision. In a ...
The European Commission fines Google 2.42 billion euros (2.7 billion U.S. dollars) for abusing its dominance as a search engine by giving illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping service. "The European Commission has fined Google 2.42 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) for breaching EU ...
Ultimately, that enforcement could see Apple, or other non-complying firms, being fined up to 10% of their worldwide turnover. At times, it has seemed as if Apple and other Big Tech firms have just found it more cost-effective tosimply pay fines, but repeat DMA offenders can be f...
surprised apple hasn't tried it. Of course they try. It's standard business everywhere. In the EU alone there's a combined "budget" of almost 2 billion for "lobbying" being used by a huge number of lobbyists. That number probably quadruples when all the "lobbyists" in regiona...
The penalty is the largest ever levied against a company in 50 years of EU antitrust regulation. The new fine raises the total penalties assessed against Microsoft by the EU to €1.68 billion. Recommended Videos “Microsoft was the first company in fifty years of EU competition policy that the...
3, 2019, file photo the Apple logo is displayed at the Apple store in the Brooklyn borough of New York. European Union fines Apple nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) 5 of 7 | EU Commission vice presi...