Published on: 2025-06-12 17:16:25
The European Commission has officially published its full ruling against Apple’s App Store practices in the European Union, and the message is clear: the company’s new “DMA-compliant” terms… still aren’t compliant. Fix it up, or pay up Following its initial €500 million fine in April, the European Commission is now giving Apple 30 days to fully align its App Store rules with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). If it fails to comply, the EU says it will start imposing “periodic penalty payments” unt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 01:42:35
It accused them of making it too easy for underage users to access content. European regulators are investigating Pornhub. On Monday, the European Commission (EC) accused the platform of not doing enough to block underage access. Also included in the investigation are Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos. The EC suspects the porn sites have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA), which includes child safety measures. Specifically, it accused the platforms of lacking age restriction tools. All four sit
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The Federal Trade Commission has finally given up the ghost on challenging Microsoft's $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. "The Commission has determined that the public interest is best served by dismissing the administrative litigation in this case," the agency said in an order issued today. The federal regulator had attempted to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard both before and after the deal closed back in October 2023. The FTC just lost out on its latest appea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 09:27:16
President Donald Trump’s new Make America Healthy Again commission, established through an executive order signed Feb. 13, released its first report on Thursday, titled “Make Our Children Healthy Again: Assessment.” Trump held an event at the White House on Thursday afternoon to discuss the report with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The 68-page report is a mix of perfectly reasonable observations about the availability of nutritious foods and the influence of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 21:57:13
In the latest edition of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman outlined some of his expectations for how Apple will remain competitive in the App Store payment processing market. Late last month, a judge ruled that Apple’s 27% commission on external payments was illegal. Many large developers have already begun implementing their own payment processing systems. Background In the United States, where most of Apple’s App Store revenue is generated, developers are now freely allowed to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 01:39:00
In context: Microsoft Teams saw explosive growth during the pandemic, but its integration with Microsoft 365 triggered European antitrust complaints. Rivals accused Microsoft of leveraging its market dominance to stifle competition. After years of legal pressure, the case may finally be nearing resolution. Microsoft and the European Commission could soon resolve an antitrust investigation on amicable terms. CNBC notes that the company agreed to offer Teams as a stand-alone product outside its p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 16:35:00
Popular social media app TikTok has been charged by the European Commission with breaching EU online content rules, which marks the second formal proceeding from the commission since November of 2024. According to the commission's statement, TikTok hasn't complied with the Digital Service Act's requirement that the app must publish a list of advertisements on the app. The repository lets users spot scam advertisements. Aside from the details around the content of ads, the European Commission al
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 05:17:06
TikTok may have run afoul of European regulators over advertising transparency, in the latest bout between EU regulators and big tech companies. The European Commission has formally warned TikTok that its advertising transparency tools don’t go far enough, falling short of EU rules requiring online platforms to maintain a publicly available repository of all paid ads being shown to users. Regulators are taking issue with the data, or lack thereof, being provided in the repository that TikTok ha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 02:58:51
The Federal Trade Commission voted Friday to delay enforcement of the Negative Option Rule — known widely as the “click-to-cancel” rule requiring companies to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up. The rule, which was first proposed in 2023, took aim at businesses selling physical and digital subscriptions — everything from streaming services to gym memberships — through simple signup flows, only to have customers discover later that they have to go through a much more c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 09:58:37
Among the most impressive manufacturing achievements of the US during WWII was the number of ships it produced. Prior to the war, the American shipbuilding industry had been moribund. Shipyards had been busy during and immediately following WWI, but the huge flood of wartime ships greatly reduced demand for new ones, and American shipyards didn’t produce a single oceangoing hull between 1922 and 1928. The onset of the Great Depression only made things worse, and by 1935 annual tonnage produced b
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Among the most impressive manufacturing achievements of the US during WWII was the number of ships it produced. Prior to the war, the American shipbuilding industry had been moribund. Shipyards had been busy during and immediately following WWI, but the huge flood of wartime ships greatly reduced demand for new ones, and American shipyards didn’t produce a single oceangoing hull between 1922 and 1928. The onset of the Great Depression only made things worse, and by 1935 annual tonnage produced b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 09:40:32
Apple was recently hit with a $570 million fine from the EU for alleged violations of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The company has said it will appeal the EU’s decision, and now per a new report, we may know some of the arguments Apple’s lawyers plan to use in the case. Apple execs sought to engage with EU throughout 2024 with compliance proposals According to a new POLITICO report, Apple’s upcoming appeal of the EU’s $570 million fine will contend that the company tried to address the EU’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 17:00:03
Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement 10 New Movies on Netflix We Can't Wait to Watch This May This month, watch out for Vince Vaughn and Linda Cardellini in Nonnas, plus Fear Street: Prom Queen and more.
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is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. In 2021, a federal judge ruled that Apple had to loosen its grip, ever so slightly, on the App Store. On Wednesday, nearly four years later, that same judge found that Apple deliberately failed to do so and tried to hide its noncompliance in the process. In a furious opinion, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said that she wouldn’t give Apple a second chance to get it right: instead, she’s demanding
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 08:00:00
The EU's crackdown on Big Tech began in earnest on Wednesday, as the European Commission issued the first fines under the Digital Markets Act, a piece of regulation designed to keep major players in the technology world from abusing their dominant position in the industry. Apple's fine, the bigger of the two, totals 500 million euros ($570 million), and follows an investigation into whether the company has been preventing customers from viewing and accessing offers that could save them money —
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 21:53:12
The European Commission issued a €500 million fine to Apple and a €200 million fine to Meta yesterday, saying that both companies violated the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The companies are required to bring their platforms into compliance within 60 days or face "periodic penalty payments," the EC said. These are the first two non-compliance decisions adopted by the commission under the DMA. The EC said it determined that Apple breached its anti-steering obligation and that "Meta breached the DMA
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 07:43:28
Apple and Meta attack 'unfair' €700m EU fines 2 hours ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images The European Union has ordered Apple and Meta to pay a combined €700m (£599m) in the first fines it has issued under recent legislation intended to curb the power of big tech. It has issued a €500m (£428m) fine to Apple over its App Store, while Meta has been fined €200m (£171m) over the way it handled user data. "We have a duty to protect the rights of citizens
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 08:10:00
The EU's crackdown on Big Tech began in earnest on Wednesday, as the European Commission issued the first fines under the Digital Markets Act, a piece of regulation designed to keep major players in the technology world from abusing their dominant position in the industry. Apple's fine, the bigger of the two, totals 500 million euros ($570 million), and follows an investigation into whether the company has been preventing customers from viewing and accessing offers that could save them money —
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 13:42:00
What just happened? The European Commission has just hit Apple and Meta with combined fines of almost $1 billion. It marks the first fines handed out by the Commission under its Digital Markets Act (DMA), and arrives just after President Trump threatened to levy tariffs against any countries that penalize US companies. Apple was handed the larger fine of 500 million euros ($570 million), while Meta has to pay 200 million euros ($228 million), making a combined total of 700 million euros, or $79
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 22:43:28
EU hits Apple and Meta with €700m of fines 17 minutes ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images The European Union has ordered Apple and Meta to pay a combined €700m (£599m) in the first fines it has issued under recent legislation intended to curb the power of big tech. It has issued a €500m (£428m) fine to Apple over its App Store, while Meta has been fined €200m (£171m) over the way it handled user data. "We have a duty to protect the rights of citizens
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 21:07:32
Apple has today received a 500 million euro fine (about $570 million) from the EU commission under the Digital Markets Act. The commission said the fine relates to Apple’s App Store anti-steering policies. It is being forced to make changes, or else face further fines. The DMA requires that app developers should be able to inform customers of alternative purchasing options outside of the App Store, and direct customers to those alternative payment options, free of charge. Apple’s rules currentl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 22:25:46
Following reported delays over political concerns, the European Commission (EC) has penalized Apple and Meta over anti-competitive activities. The fines of €500 million and €200 million respectively (around $570 million and $228 million) are the first to be issued under Europe's new Digital Markets Act (DMA), according to the EC. The fines were issued after what the Commission called extensive consultation with the two companies after the probes were opened in March 2024. Apple violated the DMA
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 21:12:55
In addition to the fine, Apple has been issued with a cease-and-desist order requiring it to make further product changes by late June. If the firm fails to comply, the Commission can fine it for every additional day it is in breach of the law. The Commission is currently assessing changes that Meta introduced late last year in order to comply with the regulation. The procedural fines fall short of the two giant penalties issued by the EU executive under its antitrust laws last year: €1.8 bill
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 21:50:02
Apple and Meta are the first companies to be fined for violations under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The European Commission announced today that Apple has been served a €500 million (about $570 million) penalty after ruling that its App Store “anti-steering” practices failed to comply with DMA antitrust rules. Meta has been fined €200 million (about $230 million) following similar charges regarding Facebook and Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ ad model. Both companies have been
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 22:30:48
The European Commission has just issued its first Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines to Apple and Meta, and now it’s telling Apple that it’s not impressed with the company’s approach to alternative app stores. The DMA originally forced Apple to begrudgingly allow alternative app stores on iOS in EU countries last year, but the fee structure imposed on developers and the daunting user installation process have led the European Commission to issue preliminary findings against Apple. “Developers want
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-19 04:27:45
An attendee takes a photograph using a Google Pixel 9 smartphone during the CP+ trade show in Yokohama, Japan on February 27, 2025. The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) on Tuesday issued a cease and desist order against Google for unfair trade practices regarding search services on Android devices— a move that aligns with similar crackdowns on firms in the UK and the U.S. In a statement, the Commission said the American tech giant violated Japan's anti-monopoly law by requiring Android devic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-19 08:11:04
An attendee takes a photograph using a Google Pixel 9 smartphone during the CP+ trade show in Yokohama, Japan on February 27, 2025. The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) on Tuesday issued a cease and desist order against Google for unfair trade practices regarding search services on Android devices— a move that aligns with similar crackdowns on firms in the UK and the U.S. In a statement, the Commission said the American tech giant violated Japan's anti-monopoly law by requiring Android devic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-19 13:28:27
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. OpenAI has revealed the “advisors” for its new nonprofit commission: Dolores Huerta, Monica Lozano, Dr. Robert K. Ross, and Jack Oliver. The company says the four advisors will help “inform OpenAI’s philanthropic efforts,” according to an announcement on Tuesday. Huerta was a prominent labor activist during the 20th century, while Lozano was the pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-06 17:36:00
In a nutshell: The European Commission is developing a new strategy to enhance internal security across the entire European Union. The plan introduces a cultural shift in how internal security is perceived, but some aspects of the proposal could potentially weaken digital security instead. The recently announced ProtectEU plan aims to safeguard Europe from internal threats, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated, emphasizing that security is a fundamental pillar of open socie
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-17 14:55:27
Two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission who were fired by President Trump sued him today, saying their removals are "in direct violation of a century of federal law and Supreme Court precedent." "Plaintiffs bring this action to vindicate their right to serve the remainder of their respective terms, to defend the integrity of the Commission, and to continue their work for the American people," said the lawsuit filed by Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya in US District Court
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