Items tagged with European-Commission
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Nov 14, 2024
Meta is being slapped with an $840 million fine by the European Commission after finding that the company had violated antitrust rules and is in breach of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. These findings...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Sep 10, 2024
Europe’s top court handed both Google and Apple multi-billion dollar penalties in a single day. The decision brought an end the crackdown EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, whose term ends in November, brought against the two tech...
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Tim Sweezy - Sat, Jun 15, 2024
According to insiders, the European Commission has its sights set on fining both Apple and Meta for failing to comply with rules under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The European regulators launched an investigation into the two tech...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Investigations into Apple, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), and Meta, three of the six tech giants the EU named as “gatekeepers,” are underway for possibly breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA). A few of the shortcomings listed are...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Mar 07, 2024
The European Union’s DMA, which officially goes into effect today, requires Apple to permit third party app stores, such as Epic Games Store, on its platform. Epic had planned to bring the Epic Games Store and Fortnite to iOS devices in...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Nov 10, 2022
Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal may be in jeopardy, as the European Commission launches an "in-depth" investigation into the buyout. The European Commission announced its more in-depth investigation into the deal in order to assess...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Sep 23, 2021
Slowly but surely, Apple has begun trending towards a future where USB Type-C is the default charging standard, though not on its iPhone devices. That could change with the iPhone 14 (or whatever comes after the newly announced iPhone 13...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Jan 20, 2021
Have you ever tried to buy a game but found that it was not available in your region for some unknown reason? This may be due to a practice Valve’s game platform Steam does, called “geo-blocking.” This is done to lock out certain countries...
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Shane McGlaun - Fri, Sep 22, 2017
It's hard for many of us to trust the studies that seem to come out on a daily basis covering a variety of topics. You can find studies on the same subject that come down on completely different sides of the topic depending on who funded...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, May 18, 2017
Facebook is feeling the burn today thanks to actions taken by the European Union. The company came under fire both at home and abroad when it announced last year WhatsApp would begin sharing user information with its parent (which just so...
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Seth Colaner - Thu, Jun 12, 2014
The EU does not fool around when it comes to handing out fines, and it also apparently does not second-guess itself. The European Commission levied a hefty fine of 1.06 billion euro (or roughly $1.44 billion USD) at Intel for...
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Seth Colaner - Wed, Jul 10, 2013
A federal judge has ruled that Apple is guilty of conspiring with publishers to raise the prices of ebooks from late 2009 to early 2010, which is a violation of antitrust laws and lands Apple in hot water. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote...
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Seth Colaner - Mon, May 13, 2013
The race towards gigabit Internet continues as Google Fiber slowly proliferates and other ISPs work to catch up, but Samsung announced that it’s actually looking at gigabit speeds--for mobile devices. Indeed, Samsung says it has been...
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Seth Colaner - Sat, Nov 10, 2012
According to a Reuters report, the European Commission is planning to level fines at six major electronics companies that participated in a price-fixing scheme for CRT displays in the late ‘90s. The apparently guilty parties include...
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Seth Colaner - Tue, Jul 24, 2012
You have to hand it to the European Commission--those folks are not shy about going after tech companies with guns blazing if they believe there have been antitrust violations. The latest alleged offense is a bit of a doozy, as it pertains...
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Seth Colaner - Wed, Jul 18, 2012
It’s a good bet that someone’s head at Microsoft is going to roll because of this one: Whether it was an honest mistake--a “technical error”, as Microsoft said in a press release--or some half-baked nefarious plot...
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