The antitrust litigation against Alphabet Inc.’s Google, filed by state attorneys general, has taken a significant turn as a judicial panel transferred the case back to a federal court in Texas. The move to Texas has the potential to expedite the litigation process, which had been progressing slowly in other jurisdictions. In 2020, a group […]
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Apple and Google, and the Australian industry group advocating for tech giants have unsurprisingly raised concerns about the proposed measures that were outlined in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) discussion paper for the Digital Platforms Services inquiry, ZDNet reported on Monday, May 9. In its discussion paper that was published in February, the country’s competition […]
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Google claimed the European Commission levied a “quasi-criminal” €1.49 billion fine riddled with “material errors” when it penalized the company for an abuse of dominance over online advertising contracts, the company’s lawyers told the EU’s General Court on Monday, Politico reported. The U.S. tech giant is trying to overturn the last of three multibillion-euro antitrust […]
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, showed her full support on Wednesday to key legislation that will force Big Tech companies to compete with smaller firms.
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According to news sources, the European Union is planning to open a San Francisco office to engage with Silicon Valley tech giants under close scrutiny from new digital rules.
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Yesterday, March 23, Google and Spotify announced a new agreement that will allow users to download Spotify from the Google Play Store and choose to pay with either Spotify´s payment system or Google Play Billing. For the first time, a dual billing option will be displayed side by side in the app. This represents a […]
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Three companies are competing to lead the EU PayTech sector, Adyen, Worldline and Nexi. While the former will likely rely on organic growth, the latter still seek more M&A opportunities. In this article, we tell you how these different strategies may play out.
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Apple is facing four antitrust investigations in Europe related to its App Store. Epic Games filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against the company for anticompetitive practices in the App Store and Germany, Japan and Australia have shown interest in these developments. The EU probe may bring more than $5 billion in fines and changes to the Apple’s App Store.
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Internet companies, and regulators for that matter, are increasingly using the word “ecosystem” to describe their business models. Those days where these companies operated just in one market are long gone. Google’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, has driven more miles than any other company, Facebook is planning to launch GlobalCoin, a crypto currency. Apple partnered with Goldman Sachs and Amazon isn’t a bookstore anymore. How this is going to affect market definitions?
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The European Commission published on April 4 a report on Competition Policy for the digital era that may be less damaging for Facebook than for Google, Amazon and Apple. Proposals include imposing obligations on the internet platforms as essential facilities, requiring data interoperability between rivals and a presumption that some activities are anticompetitive unless the companies prove otherwise.
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