The Open App Markets Act focuses on a narrow slice of the sprawling Internet economy: the billions in fees collected by app-store operators. — AFP Relaxnews
A push in US Congress to regulate digital app stores has pitted Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc against Microsoft Corp and others in a showdown of some of the nation’s biggest technology companies.
The Open App Markets Act focuses on a narrow slice of the sprawling Internet economy: the billions in fees collected by app-store operators. The legislation has emerged as a flash point because it has the best chance of becoming law among a handful of bills aimed at reining in Big Tech.
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