anti-trust
Researchers find Google’s own products absolutely dominate Google Search results
by Surur
1 week
Google is currently being quizzed the US Congress House Anti-trust Subcommittee, which makes the timing of the publication of research by The Markup very opportune. The search service looked at how much screen space Google dedicat...
US DoJ preparing anti-trust case against Google for having “7,000 datapoints on just about every human b...
by Surur
3 months
Momentum is building anew in the USA to take Google to anti-trust court, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that a coalition of state attorneys and the Department of Justice were preparing to file charges against Google in the...
German legislators vote to force Apple to open up Apple Pay and contact-less payments on the iPhone
by Surur
9 months
We reported in October that Apple was drawing attention from the European Competition Commission over their monopoly over the NFC reader on the iPhone which prevented other payment companies such as banks from supporting contact-l...
Surely not? EU thinks Apple may be acting anti-competitively again
by Surur
10 months
Apple is not best known for letting competitors into their walled garden or for letting an opportunity to skim profits from any transactions which takes place there. It is, therefore, no surprise that Apple is once in the crosshai...
US lawmakers ask Spotify to detail Apple’s anti-competitive practices
10 months
The US House has requested Spotify detail any allegations of anti-competitive behaviour from Apple, Reuters reported on Friday. The firm had filed a complaint with the European Union earlier this year, but there were no reports of...
Tomorrow the EU is expected to fine Google more than $2.7 billion for Android monopoly abuse
by Surur
2 years
The Telegraph reports that the EU is expected to hand down a massive fine to Google Tuesday or Wednesday this week to punish the company for abusing its Android monopoly to strengthen its search empire, benefitting the company to ...
The European Commission is poised to fine Google as much as $11 Billion for Android abuses
by Surur
2 years
We have been following the EU’s investigating into Google’s anti-competitive practices for some years now, and its second major investigation is now coming close to a conclusion. Last year the EU fined Google $2.7 bill...
Kaspersky complain of Windows Defender dirty tricks
by Surur
4 years
Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky is accusing Microsoft of abusing its control of Windows to squash other anti-virus companies and promote their own product Windows Defender. “We think that Microsoft has been using its domina...
The European Comission may force Google to unbundle the Google Play Store from Android distributions, which ma...
by Surur
4 years
The EU has been investigating Google for anti-competitive practices since 2013, following a complaint by the Microsoft-backed Fairsearch coalition. Now Reuters has seen a leak of an early draft of the penalties the European Commis...
