BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Apple was ordered by EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday to open up its closed ecosystem to rivals, with the latter spelling out details on how to go about it in line with the bloc's landmark rules and where non-compliance could lead to an investigation and fines.
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) -Apple lost its challenge at Germany's top civil court on Tuesday against its classification as a significant market power, a label which gives antitrust regulators more scope and flexibility to scrutinise its business practices.
(Reuters) - UK's competition regulator on Friday fined four sports broadcast and production companies about 4 million pounds ($5.2 million) for sharing sensitive information about fees for freelance workers such as camera operators and sound technicians.
(Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is moving ahead with an antitrust probe of Microsoft that was opened in the waning days of the Biden administration, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google can keep its existing investments in artificial intelligence startups like Anthropic, but would be required to notify antitrust enforcers before investing in any more AI companies under a revised Justice Department proposal filed Friday in the agency's landmark antitrust case over search.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's antitrust regulator said its inquiry group had found the mobile browser market, dominated by Apple and Google, was not working well for consumers and businesses, supporting its decision to launch an investigation into the sector in January.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian consumer products distributors have filed an antitrust case against big fast-delivery businesses of Zomato, Swiggy and Zepto, calling for an investigation into alleged deep discounting practices, legal papers show.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Cycling's governing body the UCI has been hit with an EU antitrust complaint by a Scottish father on behalf of his 18-year-old son and bike trial rider regarding its allegedly anti-competitive practices and sanctions against riders taking part in rival events.
(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday dropped a proposal to force Alphabet's Google to sell its investments in artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI competitor Anthropic, to boost competition in online search.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Apple is facing a likely antitrust fine as the French regulator prepares to rule next month on the company's privacy control tool, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain dropped its probe into Microsoft's partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Wednesday, saying the software giant did not have the level of control over the AI company that would warrant further investigation.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Meta Platforms will allow rival classified ads service providers to post listings of their ads on Facebook Marketplace, the company said on Thursday, three months after it was hit with a 797-million euro ($828 million) EU antitrust fine for giving its own service an unfair advantage.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft has offered to widen the price differential between its Office product sold with its chat and video app Teams and its software sold without the app in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine, according to three sources.
PARIS (Reuters) -France's antitrust agency is investigating Microsoft over concerns that it is degrading the quality of results when smaller rivals pay to use Bing technology in their own search-engine products.
LONDON (Reuters) - The EU's competition chief says U.S. President Donald Trump has upended the "trustful relationship" between the United States and Europe, and that Brussels should focus on providing the predictability and stability that is lacking in Washington.
An Indian appeals tribunal has put on hold the antitrust authority’s five-year data sharing ban between WhatsApp and owner Meta Platforms’ other applications such as Facebook and Instagram for advertising purposes.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union antitrust regulators will decide by March 12 whether to clear U.S. chipmaker AMD's $4.9 billion bid for server maker ZT Systems, a European Commission filing showed on Wednesday.
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) - German federal judges indicated on Tuesday that they could back the country's antitrust regulator in a legal battle with Apple, following over three hours of deliberations over whether the U.S. tech giant should be subject to additional controls.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Meta may have to "roll back or pause" some features in India due to an antitrust directive which banned its WhatsApp messaging service from sharing user data with Meta for advertising purposes, according to a court filing by the U.S. company seen by Reuters.
Nvidia Corp chief Jensen Huang is embarking on a trip to China this week, visiting major cities at a time Beijing is investigating his company’s domestic presence and Washington is slapping new curbs on the sale of its AI chips abroad.