This week will see the next step in the currently floundering mission to bring Silicon Valley to heel as US lawmakers examine the strategies which made the technology industry the force it is today.
Gadget giant Apple has caused a controversy by rejecting a premium email app unless it charges for subscriptions through the App Store, thus giving Apple a 30% piece of the action.
A blatant display of targeted, coordinated censorship has resulted in Google threatening two news sites with demonetization unless they delete specified comments sections.
Otherwise known as Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition has been making life uncomfortable for Silicon Valley residents, and now its Apple’s turn.
Facebook and Qualcomm look set for another round of scrutiny from the European Commission around their business practices.
The French antitrust authority has fined Google €150 million for applying opaque and difficult to understand rules in an inconsistent manner.
Google has announced that new Android devices in Turkey will no-longer be sold with its own applications pre-installed following an antitrust dispute with authorities in the country.
Amazon has been offered an early Christmas present from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by extending an existing antitrust probe to include its burgeoning cloud business.
Months following the well-publicised sale of its smartphone modem business to Apple, Intel has hit out at Qualcomm, accusing the semiconductor giant of market dominance misbehaviour.
Via a leaked audio-recording of a Facebook townhall meeting with employees, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a combative position in the face of increasing pressure.
The technology industry has caught the sharp-end of the stick from point-scoring politicians in recent months, however it does appear the aggressors are representative of the people.
Usually, when you put 50 lawyers in a room together, it’s a bloodbath, but Google has seemingly done the impossible; united them all behind a single cause.
The technology industry is facing regulatory and legislative assaults from all angles, and Google has confirmed it is attempting to help the Department of Justice with its own investigation.
An investigation has commenced in the US into possible abuses of Facebook’s market dominance regarding data, advertising and consumer choice.
Sources familiar with the matter have suggested an antitrust probe involving more than 30 State Attorney Generals could be launched as soon as next Monday.
A race seems to be heating up in the US. On one side, government officials are looking to tackle the influence of big tech, and on the other, Silicon Valley is trying to make it as difficult as possible.
The technology industry has often been a political punching bag over the last 18-24 months, and now the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is adding to the misery.
The US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it is investigating if leading online platforms have undertaken anti-competition, anti-innovation, and other consumer harming practices.
The European Commission has announced it will once again fine Qualcomm for market abuse, with the investigation this time focusing on 3G baseband chipsets.
The European Commission likes to poke and prod US chipmakers, and now it is the turn of Broadcom to join Qualcomm in the spotlight.
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