After the US Department of Justice launched a lawsuit against Apple, arguing that the company has maintained illegal monopoly over the smartphone market and some related services, the Cupertino-based firm came out with a surprising story. For years now, one of the main criticisms against Apple has been its walled garden approach, which makes it extremely difficult or impossible to use its devices with other non-Apple products. However, it appears that the tech company tried to make its Apple...
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RENTON, Wash. – The Seattle Seahawks announced today the club has been granted international marketing rights in Germany and the DACH Region, including Austria and Switzerland, as part of the NFL’s Global Markets Program. “The 12s are known around the world for being one of the most passionate fan bases in the NFL, and our fans in Germany and the DACH Region are no exception,” said Chuck Arnold, President, Seattle Seahawks and First & Goal Inc. “Playing in Munich in 2022, we met so many...
Global equity market capitalisation increased by 13 per cent or over $13tn in 2023, according to a report from the World Federation of Exchanges. The report, the 2023 Market Highlights, was recently released by the global exchange body. It indicated that despite the growth of global market capitalisation, trading value and volumes declined 10.6 per Read More
Is The Apple Antitrust Case A Black Swan For Markets Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance It’s an interesting juxtaposition when a black swan that you expected crosses your path but looks a bit different than you had previously suspected it would. This was exactly the case yesterday when the Department of Justice brought its “landmark” antitrust lawsuit against Apple. At first, I wrote it off as just yet another antitrust case that would eventually be settled and become ancient...
APPLE's nightmarish year keeps getting worse (First column, 7th story, link)
WASHINGTON >> The Justice Department today announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors, stifles innovation and keeps prices artificially high.
The US Department of Justice and 15 states have sued Apple, alleging it has used the powerful demand for its iPhone and other products to drive up prices for its services and hurt smaller rivals. Apple joins a list of the biggest tech companies sued by US regulators, including Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platforms and Amazon.com […]
As influencer marketing has continued to grow and normalize for B2C brands, marketers behind B2B brands have taken notice.
Masters of the Air, the miniseries about young, shearling-clad World War II fighter pilots, felt familiar at first. Or, as we put it in GQ: “Masters of the Air Is Band of Brothers With Planes and Everyone Is in It.” Let’s parse this. Yes, everyone is in it (Austin Butler, Callum Turner, and Barry Keoghan, at least). As for the “Band of Brothers With Planes” part: Masters of the Air is an installment in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’s WWII extended universe, which began with Brothers in 2001 and...
The US carriers have total control over the US phone market, so they bear responsibility for Apple's monopoly position.
The tech giant fights regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, as the US government launches a grab-bag of accusations. Plus, Elon Musk’s bad day in court• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereApple’s problems have gone transatlantic. Even as it squabbles with the EU over the Digital Markets Act and nervously eyes the UK’s passage of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers bill, the company’s biggest fight is now back at home, after the US...