The Department of Justice is now in the final stages of an investigation into tech giant Apple, with plans to file a far-reaching antitrust case against it to stop the company from unfairly protecting iPhone’s dominance. The lawsuit, which could be filed anytime during the first half of 2024, focuses on how Apple is using its control over its hardware and software to make it more difficult for... 

Spanish antitrust watchdog CNMC announced on Monday that it will investigate Dutch hotel booking company Booking.com for any potential unfair business practices that could be harming hotels and competing online travel firms in the nation. The procedures were the result of two complaints made by the Madrid Hotel Business Association and the Spanish Association of Hotel Managers (AEDH), according to... 

EU and UK regulators have opened antitrust probes into a 2018 deal between tech giants Google and Facebook owner Meta, which allegedly aimed to strengthen their dominance in the online advertising market. The parallel probes will look at whether the so-called “Jedi Blue” agreement between the two companies hampered competition in markets for online display advertising services. Online display... 

Facebook has announced that, going forward, it will be known as Meta. Beset by numerous scandals in recent weeks, the firm is aiming to transition to become “a metaverse company” rather than a social media firm. Mired in numerous antitrust probes, battling investigations in multiple countries, and desperately trying to defuse the revelations from an explosive series of internal document leaks,... 

District of Columbia and 35 US states filed a lawsuit against Google on Wednesday, accusing the tech giant of violating antitrust laws on its Android app store. The plaintiff states claim Google is monopolizing the app store and abusing the power it has over app developers, while also phasing out competition over how users download and pay for apps on their Android devices. “Google uses anticompetitive... 

A group of leading tech companies has joined over 100 Google critics in calling on the EU to take tougher antitrust action against the company, saying the tech company unfairly boosts its own services on the site’s web searches. 165 critics, including Yelp, Expedia, and Trivago, have accused Google of promoting its own services above others in search results, demanding immediate action to halt this.... 

The Department of Justice announced a set of proposals to remove legal protections enjoyed by Big Tech that allows them to behave as both a platform and a publisher. The department said in a statement Wednesday that its proposals would update Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 to include accountability for antitrust violations made by tech companies against users. “When it comes... 

Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple are pushing back against the US government’s antitrust investigations, downplaying their dominance of the tech sector, playing dumb, and staying quiet where they can’t obfuscate. The Big Tech behemoths responded to written questions sent by the House Judiciary Committee – one of several antitrust probes targeting the four companies – with concerted... 

By CCN: When you’ve got a target on your back, the best strategy is to give your enemy more arrows. At least, that’s what Google seems to think. Just days after the government launched its antitrust crackdown against the tech titans, Google decided to put more blood in the water. It announced that it is buying fast-growing cloud data analytics company Looker for $2.6 billion. In December, Looker... 

This is great news! I honestly have the biggest possible satisfaction reading this! Fine them, bankrupt them, ban them totally! Google deserves nothing less considering what they are doing these days to people and to websites. Yes we too have been banned from Adsense back in the summer of 2017 and we are also censored in Google Search Results for voicing our support for US president Donald Trump.... 

German drug and crop chemicals maker Bayer is set to win conditional European Union antitrust approval for its $62.5 billion bid for the world’s major seed company, Monsanto, Reuters reports citing its sources. The European Commission is expected to issue a decision on the deal by April 5. Bayer has already pledged to sell certain seed and herbicide assets for €5.9 billion ($7.2 billion) to chemical... 

When the Obama administration announced its plan to give up U.S. protection of the internet, it promised the United Nations would never take control. But because of the administration’s naiveté or arrogance, U.N. control is the likely result if the U.S. gives up internet stewardship as planned at midnight on Sept. 30. On Friday Americans for Limited Government received a response to its Freedom... 

Internet heavyweight Google is under investigation by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) over alleged rigging of search results in the country, a violation that could potentially be punished by up to 10 percent of the company’s income, running into billions of dollars. The CCI director general filed a report following initial complaints by Consumer Unity and Trust Society, a local nonprofit... 

Manipulated Search Results: At least 40% of all websites on the internet are not even shown in Google’s search results anymore and they usually get hidden in the “Omitted Results” at the very bottom, which is a form of severe censorship. The EU has officially filed a complaint against Google for allegedly abusing its dominance in the European market. The case could carry a fine of... 

US chipmaker Qualcomm has received the largest fine in Chinese corporate history from anti-monopoly regulators who claim the company needed to lower its patent fees as they were “stifling innovation.” China is the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturer and has fined Qualcomm $975 million (6.088 billion yuan) over unfair market dominance. Qualcomm has now agreed to lower its royalty fees on...