Antitrust

Bane of Big Tech, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, steps away for a bit

Is that a relieved sob from Google lawyers we hear?

Personal Tech06 Sep 2023 | 1

UK clears Broadcom buying VMware, but deal yet to scale Great Regulatory Wall of China

Middle Kingdom has made a habit of scuppering western mergers of late

Virtualization21 Aug 2023 | 1

South Korea 'puts the brakes' on Google's app store dominance

Starts monitoring developer deals after first slapping the G-force with substantial fine

Personal Tech16 Aug 2023 | 6

It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365

Updated Antitrust inspectors trying to figure out if Redmond has breached local competition laws

SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 42

FTC boss Khan shrugs off Microsoft, Meta defeats: 'Losing two is okay'

How quick y'all are to forget Nvidia-Arm

Personal Tech25 Jul 2023 | 4

Feds want to rewrite rules for competition-crushing merger probes

No more embrace-and-extinguish M&As, but budgetary changes may make enforcement harder

Legal20 Jul 2023 | 1

Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business

Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies

Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 6

Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office

Three years after Slack flagged up 'illegal' bundling of chat app

SaaS17 Jul 2023 | 44

EU antitrust team closer to full-blown Microsoft probe, say sources

Despite Redmond's best efforts to convince competition regulators that product bundles are OK

Software04 Jul 2023 | 22

Microsoft's Activision fight with FTC turned up a Blizzard of docs: Here's your summary

Windows PCs in the cloud, spending Sony out of business, mobile woes, and more – and the files to read

Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 31

Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud

Updated Fight! Fight! Fight!

SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 24

Europe teases breaking up Google over ad monopoly

Oh dear, look who hasn't spent enough on lobbying?

Personal Tech14 Jun 2023 | 20

Broadcom squeezed Samsung, now South Korea's squeezing back – hard

Updated Regulators won't accept proposed remedy for nasty parts deal – but EU may have accepted VMware deal

Virtualization14 Jun 2023 |

Asia's top rideshare outfit, Grab, is late paying fines for running late

Took out Uber and promised to play nice, but regulator alleges years of evasion

Legal18 May 2023 | 3

EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure

Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing

PaaS + IaaS16 May 2023 | 13

Google accused of stomping on rivals as it stamps out annoying Calendar spam

Talk about going against the Grain

Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 22

Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams

How to appease antitrust regulators by looking like you're doing something

Storage05 May 2023 | 32

Another cloud provider runs to shelter from Microsoft's licensing practices

First British biz joins Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers

PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 8

Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat

First came Slack then others joined the scrum to tackle the Beast of Redmond

CxO25 Apr 2023 | 97

Appeals court backs Apple over Epic, which isn't as bad as you might think

Game maker's success getting anti-steering rules nixed also survived

Personal Tech24 Apr 2023 | 3

Nine more US states join ad antitrust legal battle against Google

More than a third of US states now party to the lawsuit, which aims to break up Chocolate Factory's advertising arm

Personal Tech18 Apr 2023 | 7

South Korea fines Google $32M for using market power to stymie rival app store

Forced developers to sign exclusivity agreements in return for promises of going global

Legal11 Apr 2023 | 5

Why UK watchdog abandoned its Apple monopoly probe

Analysis You win this round, Cook – but Europe has already lined up changes Britain fluffed

Personal Tech04 Apr 2023 | 31

Euro cloud providers react to MS potentially cutting deal on antitrust

Transparency? Redmond's heard of it

Off-Prem30 Mar 2023 | 2

Google (sort of) loses in Indian antitrust appeal

Updated $161 million slap-on-the-wrist fine stands, but major restrictions are eased

Legal30 Mar 2023 | 4

Germany sours on Microsoft again, launches antitrust review

Welcome to the club, says Google, Meta, and Amazon

On-Prem29 Mar 2023 | 30

Google again accused of willfully destroying evidence in Android antitrust battle

Updated Starting to see a pattern here? Judge seems to think so

Security28 Mar 2023 | 35

Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices

Aggrieved investors claim tech giant fibbed to inflate stock prices... and it backfired

Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 15

EU 'poised' to OK Microsoft's Activision biz gobble

Crunch licensing talks with rivals may ease antitrust fears

Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 10

Google destroyed evidence for antitrust battle, Feds complain

rm -rf'ing staff chat logs can't go unpunished, says Uncle Sam

CSO24 Feb 2023 | 33

VMware, Broadcom extend deadline for acquisition to be signed, sealed, delivered

90-day stretch comes after Euro-probe paused for production of paperwork

Virtualization20 Feb 2023 | 1

What Brit watchdog redacted: Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue

Exclusive Those billions just may have dissuaded iPhone giant from building rival search, beefing up Safari

Applications17 Feb 2023 | 40

Uncle Sam backs right-to-repair battle against Big Ag's John Deere

Doh, a Deere, I fear no Deere

Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 37

Google works on Blink-based iOS browser contrary to Apple's WebKit rule

Chocolate Factory insists project is an internal testing tool, isn't extending middle finger at Cupertino

Applications03 Feb 2023 | 24

Killed EU antitrust fine could still come back to haunt Intel

European Commission says findings about payments intended to prevent sales of rival products still stand

Systems30 Jan 2023 | 3

Google gives in to India Android antitrust verdict, kinda

Tech behemoth says it will appeal 'certain aspects' of the decision

Legal26 Jan 2023 | 3

Well that escalated quickly: India demos homebrew mobile OS

BharOS is based on the Linux kernel and is apparently incapable of running malware

OSes25 Jan 2023 | 39

Break up Google now, says US govt in ad monopoly lawsuit

I'm feeling yucky

Personal Tech24 Jan 2023 | 18

Germany probes PayPal over cartel claims

Bundeskartellamt already had a bite at FAANG firms, now former Musk co is starting to look appetizing

Personal Tech24 Jan 2023 | 1

Live Nation CFO on Taylor Swift ticket chaos: Don't blame me, bots made me crazy

Attack was three times the size of anything company had seen – they couldn't shake it off

Offbeat24 Jan 2023 | 20

India's Supreme Court finds Google's appeal against monopoly fines unappealing

Vast and unpleasant – for Google – changes to the Android ecosystem remain a possibility

OSes23 Jan 2023 | 5

Google accuses Indian antitrust watchdog of plagiarizing EU ruling

At least it was Ctrl C, Ctrl V and not ChatGPT

Legal04 Jan 2023 | 6

Microsoft-FTC dispute over Activision deal hits court

Wildly popular Call of Duty game at the center of the antitrust tussle

Software03 Jan 2023 | 1

EU probes Broadcom/VMware deal over impact on hardware, not price hikes or cloudy concerns

+COMMENT Suggests VMware might not allow NICs and HBAs other than Broadcom’s, which would be a bizarre act

Virtualization21 Dec 2022 |

Amazon to settle Euro antitrust probes by Christmas

Cloud souk reportedly ready to play a little more fairly with its own merchants

Personal Tech17 Dec 2022 | 5

Where are EU going with that Teams antitrust probe? Microsoft wants a word

Updated Software behemoth reportedly wants a chat with the regulators – on the other side of the pond this time

SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 25

Android users in 12 US states cleared to sue Google Play

Millions of people who bought apps since 2016 eligible for payout

Personal Tech29 Nov 2022 | 10

US Justice Dept reportedly checking AI rent-pricing biz RealPage

Company accused of allowing landlords to collude and artificially inflate rental prices

AI + ML28 Nov 2022 | 5

Tech companies in the crosshairs as China proposes antitrust law revisions

After a mysterious pause in crackdowns, it looks like the Beijing everyone knows is back

Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 6

US Justice Department requests more info from Adobe on $20b Figma buy

Antitrust scrutiny into one of the biggest deals for a private software developer

Software18 Nov 2022 | 4

India fines Google another $114 million, demands Play open to third party payments

Ad and search giant protests even though it's already made the same changes in other countries

Legal27 Oct 2022 | 1

India fines Google $162 million for abusing Android monopoly

That's a whole six hours of revenue, but requirements to open the Android ecosystem will hit harder

OSes21 Oct 2022 | 3

EU companies claim Google still abusing its Shopping power

Search giant's 'Shopping Units need to go,' say coalition of 43 online comparison tools

Legal17 Oct 2022 | 10

Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly

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CSO19 Sep 2022 | 4

Euro watchdogs 'abandon $1b fine' against Qualcomm

Snapdragon giant was accused of bribing Apple not to use rival modems

Personal Tech29 Aug 2022 | 8

Apple Pay bags Cupertino another antitrust lawsuit

If this sounds familiar, it's because the EU is investigating the same thing

Legal19 Jul 2022 | 7