Published on: 2025-06-11 22:00:22
In Brief Being a staggeringly successful big tech company does have some downsides: Apple has lost an appeal against a special abuse control regime that Germany’s competition watchdog applied to it last year. The iPhone maker can expect to continue to face bespoke competition controls in a major European market, in addition to other similar laws (such as the EU’s DMA). On Tuesday, Reuters reported the ruling by Germany’s Federal Court of Justice that has affirmed the five-year regulatory desig
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 23:33:44
The UK competition watchdog has effectively told Apple that it must allow free and open competition between iPhone web browsers, but at the same time Safari cannot be better than its competitors. Update: The final report is now out, with no change to the CMA’s stance. Apple has responded by stating that making new features available within WebKit “would lead to free-riding” by developers creating competing browsers … A quick recap Things kicked off in the EU, when an investigation concluded
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 05:59:52
Robotics firm iRobot, originator of the robotic vacuum Roomba facing stiff competition from lower-priced competitors, told investors Tuesday that there was "substantial doubt" about the company's survival "as a going concern" in the next year or so. Investors took iRobot at its word, and its stock price had fallen nearly 40 percent as of 10:20 am Wednesday from the day before. The dire accounting language and market reaction are nothing new for tech firms, but iRobot's annual report suggests de
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 00:33:48
UK competition watchdog drops Microsoft-OpenAI probe 28 minutes ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty OpenAI boss Sam Altman (left) and Microsoft boss Satya Nadella The UK competition watchdog has ended its investigation into the partnership between Microsoft and the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was looking into whether Microsoft's relationship with what is the world's best known artificial intelligence (AI) firm change
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 02:57:40
Britain’s competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.’s Enterprise Act 2002, the country’s anticompetitive practices law. The full text of the decision will be published shortly, the CMA said. The CMA began investigating Microsoft’s partnership in December 2023. The tech giant is a top investor in OpenAI, having poured nearly $14 billion into
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 04:12:03
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR EU regulators want to see Google Search stop prioritizing Google services over those offered by third parties. Last fall Google tested removing rich hotel booking options from Search, but soon abandoned that effort. Now the EU may be about to formally charge Google for violating Digital Markets Act anti-competition rules. Google’s pretty much always facing legal or regulatory obstacles from somewhere, and over the years we’ve seen the company bob and
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