Apple antitrust
Antitrust Fines Against Apple and Amazon Scrapped in Italy
At the start of October, an Italian administrative court ruled that Apple and Amazon no longer have to pay a $225 million fine levied by…
France Fines Apple $1.2 Billion for ‘Running a Cartel’
French competition authority, Autorité de la Concurrence, fined Apple a record $1.2 billion after their investigation found that Apple and its wholesale partners, Ingram Micro…
Credit Card Issuers File Antitrust Suit Against Apple for Exclusionary Conduct in Mobile Tap-and-Pay Market
Apple Operating an Illegal Monopoloy in Tap-and-Pay Market, Suit Says The convenience of the tap-and-pay mobile wallet model is a feature consumers increasingly enjoy for…
App Developer’s Antitrust Case Against Apple Looking Durable
Court Says Licensing Agreement Does Not Bar App Maker Litigation A federal judge has rejected Apple Inc.’s interpretation of its app licensing agreement in the…
DOJ Joins Group in Effort to Better Police Emerging Tech
The Department of Justice is joining the Computational Antitrust project, hosted by the Stanford University CodeX Center and created by Professor Thibault Schrepel. “The project…
Will Facebook Sue Apple?
Facebook reportedly planning to sue Apple for alleged antitrust violations. According to sources speaking to TheInformation.com, Facebook believes Apple abused its power in the smartphone…
Antitrust Subcommittee and Big Tech CEOs: Creatures From Very Different Planets
A Tale of Two Hearings: Breaking Down the July 2020 Hearing on Tech Marketplace They appeared at the hearing, appropriately enough, digitally. This allowed…
Good Read: ‘The Great Antitrust Awakening Can’t Be Stopped’
Do the big tech companies — and those of us who enjoy their myriad innovations — owe a big “thank you” to the federal government…