EU antitrust regulators warned Apple on Thursday to open up its heavily guarded software to rivals – or risk hefty fines. The European Commission has launched so-called specification procedures that will determine what Apple must do to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the tough new law aimed at tech giants abusing their market … Read more
Apple must pay $14.4 billion in back taxes to the Irish government after the European Union’s top court rejected the iPhone maker’s appeal of a landmark 2016 ruling — which CEO Tim Cook denounced at the time as “political bullshit total”. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Tuesday upheld the European Commission’s ruling … Read more
Google lost its bid to escape a $2.7 billion fine imposed by European Union regulators for illegally throttling rival online shopping services on Tuesday – the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the tech giant. The European Commission first imposed the fine in 2017 after determining that Google had broken the law by … Read more