Antitrust

Google to pay $90m to settle lawsuit over anti-competitive behavior on the Play Store

US developers that qualify could receive more than $200,000

Legal01 Jul 2022 | 9

Intel demands $625m in interest from Europe on overturned antitrust fine

Chip giant still salty

Systems20 Jun 2022 | 30

Google has more reasons why it doesn't like antitrust law that affects Google

It'll ruin Gmail, claims web ads giant

Security08 Jun 2022 | 13

Amazon not happy with antitrust law targeting Amazon

Updated We assume the world's smallest violin is available right now on Prime

Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 27

EU Apple suit alleges anticompetitive Apple Pay practices

The new investigation marks the fourth set of allegations leveled against Apple by the EU since 2020

Legal02 May 2022 | 14

Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong in trouble again – this time over financial filings

Fair Trade Commission concerned false paperwork took years to decipher

Legal12 Apr 2022 | 2

DoJ to Congress: Thumbs up for big tech antitrust bill

Stopping Amazon, Google, others from prioritizing own products and services

Legal29 Mar 2022 | 5

DoJ accuses Google of training staff to make 'false requests for legal advice'

'Communicate with Care' baked into orientation for newbies, according to fresh filing in ad search monopoly case

Legal22 Mar 2022 | 27

Microsoft faces EU antitrust complaint from OVHcloud

Several companies 'taking action to ensure a level playing field among cloud services providers' in Europe

PaaS + IaaS17 Mar 2022 | 9

UK, EU regulators probe Google and Meta's 'Jedi Blue' ad deal

Watchdog: We're 'concerned' they 'teamed up ... to put obstacles in the way of competitors'

Legal11 Mar 2022 | 12

Play Store class action has £15m budget for defeating Google in London court

Detail emerges on who's funding it ... and for how much

Legal07 Feb 2022 | 23

US Senate to vote on stopping Big Tech extracting 'monopolist rent' from app developers

Billions in profits at stake for Apple and Google's money-making machines

Applications03 Feb 2022 | 16

Twelve years after Intel was fined $1.2bn for unfairly running over rivals, an EU court says: No need to pay

Ah, y'know what, maybe those rebates for not using AMD chips weren't so anti-competitive after all, eh?

On-Prem27 Jan 2022 | 42

Farm machinery giant John Deere plows into two right-to-repair lawsuits

It's Deere hunting season in Illinois and Alabama

Software25 Jan 2022 | 80

Facebook files challenge to UK Giphy buyout ban by complaining CMA was 'unfair' and 'irrational'

They really want that display ad and user tracking service

Legal05 Jan 2022 | 14

India’s competition regulator launches probes into Apple over App Store fees and access

Legal04 Jan 2022 | 6

India takes Amazon’s biggest local e-tail alliance out of its shopping cart

Regulator says US giant lied about deal with Future Coupons, which responded by stabbing Amazon in the front

Legal20 Dec 2021 | 15

UK's antitrust watchdog is very angry and has written a letter telling Apple and Google how angry it is with them

Shocked, shocked, to find that anti-competitive behavior is going on in here

Personal Tech15 Dec 2021 | 29

Amazon fined €1.13bn by Italy's antitrust authorities for abusing its power

'Use our logistics service or don't. It'll cost you either way.'

Legal10 Dec 2021 | 27

Nextcloud boss: You gotta fight … for your right … to 'plug into Windows and offer the exact same service'

Interview It's the browser wars all over again – but this time it's cloud storage

Off-Prem02 Dec 2021 | 22

Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

Amended Texas complaint alleges backroom efforts to maintain ad dominance and more

Personal Tech22 Oct 2021 | 38

Amazon abuses dominance to keep wholesaler prices high, says DC AG in updated antitrust complaint

Minimum Margin Agreement policy is anticompetitive, it is claimed

Personal Tech13 Sep 2021 | 6

Er, no, we would like to continue suing Facebook, US state AGs tell courts

Legal eagles determined to overturn decision to throw out antitrust lawsuit targeting Instagram, Whatsapp acquisitions

Personal Tech28 Jul 2021 | 7

Three-dozen US states plus DC sue Google over Play Store's revenue cut, payment system, and more

Chocolate Factory rolls its eyes at 'meritless' antitrust lawsuit

Applications08 Jul 2021 | 12

Court kills FTC, US states' antitrust complaints against trillion-dollar Facebook

Watchdog has 30 days to try again or let it go

Personal Tech29 Jun 2021 | 13

UK's competition watchdog preps to shoulder post-Brexit workload from European Commission

Apparently Eastenders' Phil Mitchell is in charge these days - it sounds fighty

Legal28 Jun 2021 | 41

These six proposed bipartisan antitrust laws put Big Tech in the cross-hairs – and a House committee just OK'd them

Well, it's a start

Legal24 Jun 2021 | 10

£1bn lawsuit by Google Shopping rival staggers back to feet in London High Court

Judge rules in Chocolate Factory's favour during prelims of 2015-era case

Legal23 Jun 2021 | 5

Big Tech critic Lina Khan confirmed as FTC chairwoman

Promises to 'safeguard fair competition and protect consumers, workers, and honest businesses ... with vigor'

PaaS + IaaS16 Jun 2021 | 8

Ohio Attorney General asks courts to declare Google a public utility

Yup, just a Republican wanting a private business to be subjected to more government regulation

Personal Tech09 Jun 2021 | 15

Amazon hit with antitrust lawsuit after DC AG says TTFN to price fixing

It started out as an innocent book store and now it's Barnes & Ignoble

Personal Tech25 May 2021 | 14

Italian monopoly watchdog asks Google to cough up a few euros for illegally blocking an Android Auto app

Web giant tells us it's considering its response to €100m fine demand

Applications13 May 2021 | 7

Who'd have thought the US senator who fist pumped Jan 6 insurrectionists would propose totally unworkable anti-Big Tech law?

This one seems as well thought-out as his Capitol rally salute

Legal13 Apr 2021 | 99

China whacks Alibaba with US$2.8bn fine for breaking antitrust rules

Alibaba takes it on the chin, apologises, promises to do better (and maybe feels it got off lightly with fine of 4% of revenue)

Legal12 Apr 2021 | 16

US watchdog kills off four-year antitrust complaint against Qualcomm, still insists it was right anyway

Updated FTC cites 'significant headwinds' in trying to fight the San Diego chipmaker

Networks30 Mar 2021 | 5

Google, Facebook, Amazon et al look on nervously as Biden bumps anti-Big Tech warriors into key posts

Analysis Tim Wu, Lina Khan may be internet mega-corps' worst nightmares

Off-Prem10 Mar 2021 | 21

UK monopoly watchdog launches probe after iOS app makers slam Apple software store's draconian T&Cs

The walls are closing in on the iGiant

Applications05 Mar 2021 | 33

Facebook appeals ruling that it stole tech. So, Italian judge issues new judgment: Pay 10 times the original fine

Everyone’s favorite social media giant ordered to pay 3.8m euros

Software06 Jan 2021 | 43

As Uncle Sam continues to clamp down on Big Tech, Apple pelted with more and more complaints from third-party App Store devs

Special Report El Reg lends our ear to companies and developers struggling to survive in Apple's cruel, cruel App Store world

Software31 Dec 2020 | 96

In this week’s episode of Texas Attorney General: Google faces lawsuit accusing it of crushing ad-tech rivals

Antitrust legal challenge also claims web giant accessed encrypted WhatsApp messages

Personal Tech16 Dec 2020 | 13

Facebook crushed rivals to maintain an illegal monopoly, the entire United States yells in Zuckerberg’s face

Multi-AG, FTC antitrust lawsuits focus on 'the wrath of Mark', potential break-up of social media giant

Personal Tech09 Dec 2020 | 42

Remember Ask Jeeves? It's still alive, kinda, and Google seems keen to show it the door once and for all

IAC calls foul over Chrome extensions spat, complicated by antitrust case

Personal Tech07 Dec 2020 | 32

Google tells court: Our rivals gave US govt confidential dirt on us to fuel antitrust case. Now we want to see it

Dept of Justice lawyers: No way

SaaS17 Nov 2020 | 11

China’s competition agency floats Internet-age anti-monopoly law upgrade

Share prices of China’s internet giants slump in wake of call for comment

Legal11 Nov 2020 | 5

European Commission to take a closer look at how Amazon uses business data of third-party sellers using its platform

Preliminary view is that antitrust rules have been breached

On-Prem10 Nov 2020 | 22

India launches Google antitrust probe and Google mostly shrugs it off

The usual stuff in the spotlight: Google Pay crowding out rivals, search algo bias

Legal10 Nov 2020 | 5

Today's tech giants won't be as naive as I was in DoJ dealings, says former Microsoft chief Bill Gates

'I didn’t realise that our success would lead to government attention'

Legal22 Oct 2020 | 33

Kick Google all you like, Mozilla tells US government, so long as we keep getting our Google-bucks

In case you've forgotten: Google sends Mozilla about $400m a year

Personal Tech21 Oct 2020 | 35

What does everyone make of today's Google antitrust action? Only the stock market is happy with the status quo

Analysis Some state AGs feel US govt lawsuit is limited, tech groups worry about implications

Personal Tech20 Oct 2020 | 48

Google screwed rivals to protect monopoly, says Uncle Sam in antitrust lawsuit: We go inside the Sherman parked on a Silicon Valley lawn

Analysis Search engine giant has officially become 1990s Microsoft

Personal Tech20 Oct 2020 | 105

Clowns to the left to me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with EU: Google faces antitrust war with America, China

Search, mobile OS domination under fire from both sides of the planet

Personal Tech01 Oct 2020 | 11

Five Eyes nations start new club for competition regulators and paint target on digital giants

Joint investigations imagined, complete with sharing of confidential info gleaned from local probes

Legal03 Sep 2020 | 11

Apple coughs $84m to settle South Korean market abuse case

Promises to support local businesses and stop forcing local carriers paying for ads and iThing fixes

Personal Tech25 Aug 2020 | 4

At historic Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google CEOs hearing, congressmen ramble, congresswomen home in on tech market abuse

Analysis We watched six hours of congressional hearings so you didn’t have to

Personal Tech30 Jul 2020 | 48

Google: OK, OK, we pinky promise not to suck Fitbit health data into the borg. Now will you approve the sale?

EU antitrust folks give themselves two weeks to think about it

Personal Tech14 Jul 2020 | 20

Consumer orgs ask world's competition watchdogs: Are you really going to let Google walk off with all Fitbit's data?

Updated It's like the Chocolate Factory isn't dominant enough already

Personal Tech02 Jul 2020 | 31

Oh good, the FTC has discovered acqui-hires... American watchdog to probe decade of Big Tech takeovers

Hope they've got a dump truck or three to deliver paperwork covering years of acquisitions

Science11 Feb 2020 | 13

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Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly

Euro watchdogs 'abandon $1b fine' against Qualcomm

Apple Pay bags Cupertino another antitrust lawsuit

Google to pay $90m to settle lawsuit over anti-competitive behavior on the Play Store

Intel demands $625m in interest from Europe on overturned antitrust fine

Google has more reasons why it doesn't like antitrust law that affects Google

Amazon not happy with antitrust law targeting Amazon

EU Apple suit alleges anticompetitive Apple Pay practices

Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong in trouble again – this time over financial filings

DoJ to Congress: Thumbs up for big tech antitrust bill

DoJ accuses Google of training staff to make 'false requests for legal advice'

Microsoft faces EU antitrust complaint from OVHcloud

UK, EU regulators probe Google and Meta's 'Jedi Blue' ad deal

Play Store class action has £15m budget for defeating Google in London court

US Senate to vote on stopping Big Tech extracting 'monopolist rent' from app developers

Twelve years after Intel was fined $1.2bn for unfairly running over rivals, an EU court says: No need to pay

Farm machinery giant John Deere plows into two right-to-repair lawsuits

Facebook files challenge to UK Giphy buyout ban by complaining CMA was 'unfair' and 'irrational'

India’s competition regulator launches probes into Apple over App Store fees and access

India takes Amazon’s biggest local e-tail alliance out of its shopping cart

UK's antitrust watchdog is very angry and has written a letter telling Apple and Google how angry it is with them

Amazon fined €1.13bn by Italy's antitrust authorities for abusing its power

Nextcloud boss: You gotta fight … for your right … to 'plug into Windows and offer the exact same service'

Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

Amazon abuses dominance to keep wholesaler prices high, says DC AG in updated antitrust complaint

Er, no, we would like to continue suing Facebook, US state AGs tell courts

Three-dozen US states plus DC sue Google over Play Store's revenue cut, payment system, and more

Court kills FTC, US states' antitrust complaints against trillion-dollar Facebook

UK's competition watchdog preps to shoulder post-Brexit workload from European Commission

These six proposed bipartisan antitrust laws put Big Tech in the cross-hairs – and a House committee just OK'd them

£1bn lawsuit by Google Shopping rival staggers back to feet in London High Court

Big Tech critic Lina Khan confirmed as FTC chairwoman

Ohio Attorney General asks courts to declare Google a public utility

Amazon hit with antitrust lawsuit after DC AG says TTFN to price fixing

Italian monopoly watchdog asks Google to cough up a few euros for illegally blocking an Android Auto app

Who'd have thought the US senator who fist pumped Jan 6 insurrectionists would propose totally unworkable anti-Big Tech law?

China whacks Alibaba with US$2.8bn fine for breaking antitrust rules

US watchdog kills off four-year antitrust complaint against Qualcomm, still insists it was right anyway

Google, Facebook, Amazon et al look on nervously as Biden bumps anti-Big Tech warriors into key posts

UK monopoly watchdog launches probe after iOS app makers slam Apple software store's draconian T&Cs

Facebook appeals ruling that it stole tech. So, Italian judge issues new judgment: Pay 10 times the original fine

As Uncle Sam continues to clamp down on Big Tech, Apple pelted with more and more complaints from third-party App Store devs

In this week’s episode of Texas Attorney General: Google faces lawsuit accusing it of crushing ad-tech rivals

Facebook crushed rivals to maintain an illegal monopoly, the entire United States yells in Zuckerberg’s face

Remember Ask Jeeves? It's still alive, kinda, and Google seems keen to show it the door once and for all

Google tells court: Our rivals gave US govt confidential dirt on us to fuel antitrust case. Now we want to see it

China’s competition agency floats Internet-age anti-monopoly law upgrade

European Commission to take a closer look at how Amazon uses business data of third-party sellers using its platform

India launches Google antitrust probe and Google mostly shrugs it off

Today's tech giants won't be as naive as I was in DoJ dealings, says former Microsoft chief Bill Gates

Kick Google all you like, Mozilla tells US government, so long as we keep getting our Google-bucks

What does everyone make of today's Google antitrust action? Only the stock market is happy with the status quo

Google screwed rivals to protect monopoly, says Uncle Sam in antitrust lawsuit: We go inside the Sherman parked on a Silicon Valley lawn

Clowns to the left to me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with EU: Google faces antitrust war with America, China

Five Eyes nations start new club for competition regulators and paint target on digital giants

Apple coughs $84m to settle South Korean market abuse case

At historic Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google CEOs hearing, congressmen ramble, congresswomen home in on tech market abuse

Google: OK, OK, we pinky promise not to suck Fitbit health data into the borg. Now will you approve the sale?

Consumer orgs ask world's competition watchdogs: Are you really going to let Google walk off with all Fitbit's data?

Oh good, the FTC has discovered acqui-hires... American watchdog to probe decade of Big Tech takeovers

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