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Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub is complete

3 weeks

Microsoft made the announcement about GitHub acquisition back in June 2018 and has been working with regulators around the world to close the deal. Last week, we reported that Microsoft got approval for its GitHub acquisition fro...

EU approves Microsoft’s GitHub acquisition

by Pradeep

4 weeks

Microsoft made the announcement about GitHub acquisition back in June 2018 and has been working with regulators around the world to close the deal. Last month, we reported that Microsoft is expected to get a final ruling from EU ...

EU force Google to unbundle, license Android application suite to competitors

by Surur

1 month

In July the European Commission fined Google €4.34 billion for now following EU antitrust rules. According to EC, Google has imposed illegal restrictions on Android OEMs and mobile network operators to maintain its dominant posi...

Google has 2 weeks to stop Android anti-competitive behaviour or face massive fines

by Surur

1 month

Google was convicted in July by the EU of abusing its dominant position in Android and had until the 22nd of October to present solutions to the European Commission. Now the company has filed an appeal for the decision, according ...

Report: EU to approve Microsoft’s GitHub acquisition

by Pradeep

1 month

Now Google faces an Android antitrust investigation on home turf

by Surur

1 month

Google in a convicted abuser of its monopoly positions, having been fined on two occasions by the European Commission for anti-competitive behaviour. Now the company may be facing the heat closer to home, according to the New Yo...

Google is willing to deal with the EU on Android app distribution

by Surur

4 months

The main outcome we anticipate from the EU’s demands that Google loosens their restrictions on Android OEMs is that they would make it easier to access the Google Play Store, with has more than 1 million apps, without distri...

Google has been fined a record breaking $5B by European Commission

by Pradeep

4 months

As we reported yesterday, the European Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion for now following EU antitrust rules. According to EC, Google has imposed illegal restrictions on Android OEMs and mobile network operators to main...

So maybe this is why Google banned YouTube on the Amazon Echo Show

by Surur

1 year

Around a month ago YouTube videos stopped working on the Echo Show, with the message “Currently, Google is not supporting YouTube on the Echo Show.” At the time Google claimed that Amazon’s implementation breach...

Google pulls a Windows Phone on the Amazon Echo Show

by Surur

1 year

Given Google’s antitrust issues in Europe, one would have thought the company would be more careful about exercising its monopoly powers, but a new tiff with Amazon around the Amazon Echo Show shows the company remains as su...

Google’s solution for Google Shopping EU antitrust complaint will also be perfect for Android monopoly

by Surur

1 year

After energetically opposing EU antitrust actions Google has recently appeared to capitulate and has started to work to address the European Commission’s antitrust authority’s concern with the solutions they have deman...

Google capitulates to EU anti-trust regulators, set to change business

by Surur

1 year

Microsoft was a much-chastened company after being very nearly broken up by American anti-trust regulators in early 2000, with much of its hyper-competitive edge being blunted by close supervision by resident lawyers. It seems Goo...