The way Apple, Alphabet implemented DMA rules 'seems to be at odds' with law European Commission says 12-month investigation could lead to fine of up to 10% of global revenue OSes25 Mar 2024 | 24
Uncle Sam, 15 US states launch antitrust war on Apple Lawsuit alleges iGiant rips off fans, stifles dev innovation, makes it tough to dump iOS for rivals OSes21 Mar 2024 | 40
Why France this week fined Google €250M over web news Google pulls a few coins from the sofa and says whatever, just clarify who needs to be paid for what Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 11
Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS Thanks to Europe forcing Apple to offer a browser choice screen. Now, about ditching WebKit ... Applications14 Mar 2024 | 65
Google dresses up services for the EU's Digital Markets Act Apple also unpeels its offerings before Europe makes its pips squeak Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
EU takes a bite out of Apple with $2B in-app purchase fine Cupertino blames Spotify, says Commission is just giving preference to another European company Applications04 Mar 2024 | 31
Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers Legal29 Feb 2024 | 6
Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI Updated Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 27
Date set for for epic Amazon-FTC antitrust showdown Lina Khan may not even be in charge of watchdog by time case gets to trial, if it even goes that far Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 2
Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech Opinion It's not just you – things really are getting worse Off-Prem30 Jan 2024 | 159
Russia takes $13.5M bite out of Apple over in-app purchases Gotta fund that war somehow, eh, Vlad? Applications23 Jan 2024 | 39
Intel finds a friend in fight against $1.2B EU antitrust fine Advocate general kicks holes in some of the European Commission's arguments about ancient rebate program Public Sector19 Jan 2024 | 5
Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP Analysis Hint: US, UK, European antitrust police are on the hunt PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2024 | 16
Google coughs up $700M in Play Store antitrust suit Gives Apple a sly nod over sideloading Personal Tech19 Dec 2023 | 15
Adobe ditches $20B Figma takeover under pressure from monopoly cops Now Photoshop giant needs to cough up that $1B break-up fee Applications18 Dec 2023 | 1
Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly Fortnite dev hails 'a win for all app developers and consumers around the world' Legal12 Dec 2023 | 53
Amazon's practices are 'the essence of competition,' it tells judge Why would FTC call that antitrust, it asks in dismissal request Legal11 Dec 2023 | 12
FTC wants Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI under the microscope Hey Bing, how can I invest billions in a company but not break antitrust laws? AI + ML11 Dec 2023 | 8
Europe says Adobe's $20B buy of Figma will kill competition Updated Software duo must respond with remedies – plus: closing deal in '23 likely a Figma of their imagination Software20 Nov 2023 | 9
Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription Also: Antitrust trial exhibits signals Incognito mode isn't truly private and 100M users may be underage Personal Tech08 Nov 2023 | 24
Epic Games, Google head to court over epic Play Store cut Fortnite-maker largely lost against Apple, but can it beat the Chocolate Factory? Software06 Nov 2023 | 4
Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides revealed in Google antitrust battle Whinges about Chrome maker's privacy stance while taking billions to, er, use its search engine Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 41
Amazon's $1.4B price-raising 'Project Nessie' algorithm exposed in FTC antitrust fight More details emerge from Loch Jassy, including how this may have been anything but a 'scrapped' project Personal Tech02 Nov 2023 | 16
Alphabet CEO testifies in Google Search trial: We pay billions to keep Apple at bay As Uncle Sam releases internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more Personal Tech30 Oct 2023 | 17
Japan to probe Google over 'suspicion' that antitrust laws are being broken Updated Arrives at the same conclusion about the nexus of Android and search as pretty much everyone else Legal24 Oct 2023 | 11
Google promises Germany to creep on users less after market power probe Regulation complements EU's Digital Markets Act to cover more services Security06 Oct 2023 | 6
Amazon had secret algorithm to hike prices, claims FTC Project Nessie named in the antitrust suit, alleging Bezos's bunch pulled in an extra billion-plus Personal Tech04 Oct 2023 | 32
Amazon accused of being a monopolist in FTC lawsuit Khan's been waiting for years to file this case - she better hope her aim is good Software26 Sep 2023 | 20
CMA says new Microsoft-Activision deal addresses concerns Meet gaming's power couple, with Ubisoft the third wheel. Now competition watchdog must ensure Windows biz keeps promises Software22 Sep 2023 | 2
Korea's FTC fines Broadcom $14.3M for pushing 'unfair' deal onto Samsung Updated Watchdog claims it abused market position to leverage 'unfavorable' long-term parts supply contract Systems21 Sep 2023 |
Google on trial: Feds challenge deals that set your web search defaults Big G wheels out its old argument that its products are better - and look, there they are, pre-installed and in your face Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 27
US Department of Justice claims Google bought its way to web search dominance We're just better, says Big G Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 29
Google settles another Play Store antitrust case Perhaps the Chocolate Factory didn't feel like staring down 36 state AGs with two other competition cases pending Applications06 Sep 2023 | 3
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