A year-long inquiry into voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri has led to among more than 200 companies expressing concerns of potential anticompetitive practices, EU antitrust regulators said.
Browsing: Margrethe Vestager
Apple is set for another showdown with the European Union’s antitrust chief as she escalates an antitrust probe over its App Store.
Google has won European Union approval for its $2.1-billion takeover of Fitbit, days after regulators proposed tougher rules to curb powerful technology firms’ push into new services.
Europe’s second highest court on Wednesday rejected an EU order for Apple to pay €13-billion in Irish back taxes, dealing a blow to the bloc’s attempts to crack down on sweetheart tax deals.
As US authorities ready the biggest antitrust case of the new century, there are lessons to be learnt from Europe’s attempt to inject more competition into search, one of the most lucrative digital markets.
Apple on Tuesday found itself the target of two EU antitrust investigations into its App Store and Apple Pay as regulators said its terms and conditions and restrictions may violate the bloc’s competition rules.
The European Union’s antitrust chief says she’s taken the unusual step of scrutinising Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency because of the risk that libra will lead to the creation of a new, entirely separate economy.
Apple fights the world’s biggest tax case in a quiet courtroom this week, trying to rein in the European Union’s powerful antitrust chief ahead of a potential new crackdown on Internet giants.
The European Union’s antitrust chief called for more rules to rein in how companies collect and use information, offering the first clues into how she may use new powers to target big technology firms.
Technology firms are “robot vacuum cleaners” sucking up valuable data in a way that can undermine competition, European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said in a speech on Tuesday.