Tag: Apple
Apple Commissions Study On Its App Store Ahead Of Antitrust Hearing
Apple's controversial policy of taking up to a 30% cut of purchases made through the App Store is actually similar to the commission rates...
Italian Apple, Amazon Offices Raided Over Beats Headphone Sales
Italy’s antitrust authority is investigating Apple and Amazon after a local retailer complained they’d been banned from re-selling products on the online marketplace.
The Italian offices of both...
Microsoft President Raises Concerns About Apple App Store In House Antitrust...
Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith reportedly expressed concerns about the Apple App Store in a meeting with the US House antitrust committee investigating...
Yale Economist Advises Amazon And Apple On Antitrust Issues
Fiona Scott Morton a Yale University economist and former Justice Department official is advising two of the biggest names in tech, Amazon.com and Apple...
Vestager Sees Recent Apple Ruling As A Loss
The European Union’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday, July 16, that EU court rulings this week, which saw courts reject a key...
Dems Want Apple & Google To Curb Foreign App Data Sharing
A Congressional Democrat has called on Apple and Google to prevent smartphone apps from compromising national security by sharing data with foreign entities “including...
EU’s Vestager To Continue Tax Fight After Apple Setback
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager vowed on Wednesday, June 15, to continue her fight against tax measures used by multinationals despite a setback dealt...
Apple Wins EU Tax Battle, Court Annuls 2016 Order To Pay...
Apple won a landmark court case Wednesday, July15, against the European Commission over a dispute concerning 13 billion euros ($14.9 billion) in Irish taxes,...
US Tech Chiefs To Testify Before House On July 27
The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook will appear before a US House of Representatives panel on July 27, the committee said...
UK Is Concerned With Google Paying Apple Billions To Be Default...
The payments by Alphabet’s Google to Apple to be the default search engine on Apple’s Safari web browser create “a significant barrier to entry...