Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic crack down on alleged anti-competitive practices that could result in break-up orders to Apple and Alphabet's Google, a first for the industry. That in turn could inspire watchdogs around the world to pile on, as evidenced in the growing number of antitrust probes in various countries following the opening of EU and U.S. cases. Since AT&T was broken up exactly 40 years ago, no company has...
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The new Digital Markets Act law went into effect this month and is already forcing big changes at Big Tech companies.
The EU probes launched Monday into Apple, Google and Meta send a worrying signal , one of the main tech lobbying groups said after the European Commission announced the first ever investigations under a new digital law. The timing of these announcements, while the DMA compliance workshops are still ongoing, makes it look like the Commission could be jumping the gun, said the head of CCIA Europe, Daniel Friedlaender. As we all know, data takes time to collect. What we see now, however, sends a...
By Foo Yun Chee and Supantha Mukherjee BRUSSELS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic crack down on alleged anti-competitive practices that could result in break-up orders to Apple and Alphabet’s Google, a first for the industry. That in turn could inspire […]
Technology groups face hefty fines if they are found guilty of breaching Digital Markets ActBusiness live – latest updatesApple, Google’s parent company and Meta are being investigated by the EU for potential breaches of the bloc’s new laws designed to police anti-competitive behaviour by big technology companies.The trio face significant fines if they are found guilty of breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a landmark piece of regulation that came into force on 7 March and is aimed at...
The EU has announced investigations into some of the biggest tech firms in the world over uncompetitive practices, the BBC reports. Meta, Apple, and Alphabet, which owns Google, are being looked into for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) introduced in 2022. If they are found to have broken the rules, the firms …
The EU has announced investigations into some of the biggest tech firms in the world over uncompetitive practices.
If they are found to have broken the rules, the firms could be fined up to 10% of their annual turnover.
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