Google bows to further anti-Russia pressure
US internet giant Google is blocking the download of paid apps from its Google Play store in Russia.
US internet giant Google is blocking the download of paid apps from its Google Play store in Russia.
A piece of legislation that seeks to limit the amount of control Apple and Google have over their app stores has been approved by the US Senate Judiciary Committee.
A Dutch antitrust authority has been looking into Apple’s policy of excluding all other payment systems and seems to have decided it needs changing.
In the long-running case over Apple’s right to prevent iOS apps circumventing its payment system a judge has ruled the company is not a monopoly in this context, just.
A five-year Japanese investigation into Apple’s app store practices has been resolved with a superficial tweak.
A bill voted through by Korea’s parliamentarians demands application store operators like Apple and Google to allow customers to choose alternative payment methods when buying apps and content.
Apple has agreed to loosen its grip on how mobile apps can be distributed and promised more transparency on app approval processes in a package to settle a class-action suit brought by app developers.
Google and Apple use their app store duopoly to prevent developers from using any in-app payment methods other than their own. That’s anti-competitive.
Fortnite developer Epic is not letting up in its crusade against the ‘Apple tax’, opening a new front in Europe with a European Commission antitrust complaint.
Gadget giant Apple takes 30% of everything spent on its app store, but it’s halving that rate for anyone who earns let than $1 million per year.
The Aussie competition authority thinks the ecosystem around mobile app stores, which is controlled entirely by just two companies, merits closer inspection.
Apple’s increasingly inflexible and suffocating attitude towards its App Store partners means it’s rapidly running out of friends.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) has found Apple’s App Store is on the wrong side of antitrust rules, following a complaint from Kaspersky Lab.
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.
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.
The iPhone maker took down the crowd-sourced app HKmap.live, favoured by the protesters in Hong Kong to track police movement, from its local App Store, after being blasted by China’s state media.
Apple is potentially on the verge of facing a tidal wave of lawsuits as the Supreme Court agrees the iLeader is allowed to be challenged on the potential abuse of power in the app economy.
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has launched an investigation into whether Apple is abusing its power through the App Store, favouring its own apps over rivals.
Apple presented its side of the dispute with Spotify, claiming it is treating the latter equally as other apps and it is reasonable to charge 30% of premium payment to apps.
Apple has found itself in court once again, but Qualcomm is no-where to be seen. Instead, a few of its loyal iLifers are challenging the firm over whether the App Store is an illegal monopoly.
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