Samuel Stolton
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Google Offered €470 Million To Derail Microsoft Antitrust Pact
The package totaled approximately €455 million worth of software licenses for Google’s cloud technology over 5 years as well as €14 million in cash.
- Tuesday July 16, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton
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Meta Hit By EU Warning Over Ad-Free Instagram, Facebook
Meta introduced separate, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in November, to ward off growing regulatory pressure over its processing of users’ personal data.
- Monday July 1, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton
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Nvidia To Be Hit By French Antitrust Complaint, Reuters Says
French antitrust enforcers are preparing to charge Nvidia Corp. with allegedly anticompetitive practices, Reuters reported, as the world’s most valuable chipmaker faces mounting regulatory scrutiny.
- Monday July 1, 2024
- Author: Nick Turner, Samuel Stolton
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Apple Won’t Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns
Apple Inc. is withholding a raft of new technologies from hundreds of millions of consumers in the European Union, citing concerns posed by the bloc’s regulatory attempts to rein in Big Tech.
- Saturday June 22, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton, Mark Gurman
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Microsoft’s $13 Billion OpenAI Deal To Avoid Formal EU Probe
Microsoft Corp.’s $13 billion investment into OpenAI Inc. is set to avoid a formal investigation by European Union merger watchdogs, calming fears that the relationship could be forced apart.
- Wednesday April 17, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton
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Apple Agrees to EU Antitrust Demand in Fight on App Payment
Apple Inc. said it has accepted European Union demands to stop preventing music-streaming apps from informing users of deals away from the company’s App Store, although it will still charge a fee on those sales.
- Saturday April 6, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton
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Apple Hit With €1.8 Billion EU Fine Over Music App Abuses
The European Commission also ordered the Cupertino, California-based firm to stop preventing music-streaming apps from informing users of cheaper deals away from Apple’s App Store.
- Monday March 4, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton, Stephanie Bodoni
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Apple Hit With €1.8 Billion EU Fine Over Music App Abuses
The European Commission also ordered the Cupertino, California-based firm to stop preventing music-streaming apps from informing users of cheaper deals away from Apple’s App Store.
- Monday March 4, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton, Stephanie Bodoni
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Musk’s X Could Face EU’s Digital Dominance Crackdown
The Brussels-based watchdog has 45 working days to decide whether or not to draw X, Booking.com and ByteDance under the scope of the rules.
- Sunday March 3, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton
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Apple Set To Face Near €500 Million EU Fine In Spotify Row
The penalty will be Apple’s first ever from the bloc.
- Monday February 19, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton
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Apple Set To Face Near €500 Million EU Fine In Spotify Row
The penalty will be Apple’s first ever from the bloc.
- Monday February 19, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton
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Microsoft’s Bing, Edge To Avoid EU’s Digital Dominance Crackdown
Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine, Edge web browser and Advertising services are set to be exempt from strict new European Union antitrust rules reining in Big Tech platforms because watchdogs tentatively concluded they’re not dominant enough to be hit by the regulation.
- Tuesday January 23, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton, Stephanie Bodoni
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Google Plots Product Overhaul For EU’s Digital Dominance Rules
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is rolling out a series of broad changes to some of its core search, browser and data products in Europe, in order to step in line with the European Union’s new rules to rein in Big Tech’s market dominance.
- Wednesday January 17, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton
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Google Plots Product Overhaul For EU’s Digital Dominance Rules
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is rolling out a series of broad changes to some of its core search, browser and data products in Europe, in order to step in line with the European Union’s new rules to rein in Big Tech’s market dominance.
- Wednesday January 17, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton
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Microsoft’s OpenAI Ties Face Potential EU Merger Probe
Microsoft Corp.’s $13 billion investment into OpenAI Inc. is facing the potential of a full-blown European Union merger probe, after a mutiny at the ChatGPT creator laid bare deep ties between the two companies.
- Tuesday January 9, 2024
- Author: Samuel Stolton