Apple might be slapped with a €500 million ($539 million) fine by the European Commission, revealed The Financial Times on Sunday. According to the report, the US company is responsible for deliberately pushing Apple Music on the App Store in favor of other music platforms such as Spotify. The complaint from the Swedish audio streaming […]
Read MoreIn late October this year, Samsung filed a complaint against BOE in the United States International Trade Commission, accusing BOE of unfair competition and using stolen intellectual property of Samsung to produce OLED display modules. The two tech giants have a history. A couple of years ago, Samsung Display tried to stop the wholesalers from […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know The European Union will reportedly open an antitrust probe into Microsoft surrounding the tech giant’s communication platform Microsoft Teams. The investigation is based on a complaint made by Microsoft competitor Slack in 2020. The core argument Slack made was that Microsoft has used its dominant Office suite of applications to […]
Read MoreThe unionized Towson Apple Store in Maryland today filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board after its employees were excluded from some benefits that Apple recently introduced for non-union workers, reports Bloomberg. Apple in October announced plans to offer employees additional funds for education and new health care options in some states, but […]
Read MoreApple Pay competitor PayPal played a role in the EU’s decision to target Apple with antitrust complaints about its mobile wallet, reports Bloomberg. PayPal was one of “multiple companies” that filed informal complaints about the way Apple restricts third-party apps from accessing the NFC capabilities of the iPhone, which in turn led to the European […]
Read MoreSource: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Microsoft Microsoft’s cloud business is yet another item in the company’s roster of products to attract antitrust scrutiny. The freshly reported instance comes from OVHcloud, which claims it filed a complaint alongside other companies, though OVHcloud declined to name said companies. It’s said that the core of the complaint is […]
Read MoreA group of UK network operators have formally urged the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to regulate iCloud Private Relay, claiming that Apple’s privacy service is anti-competitive, potentially bad for users, and a threat to national security. In its response to the CMA‘s Interim Report on mobile ecosystems, Mobile UK, a trade association of […]
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