The Justice Department wants to know how to change a search engine monopoly
The US Department of Justice on Monday opened its antitrust trial against Google over its search engine business. Google’s lawyers argued that the DOJ’s list of remedies for the case is a “wishlist for competitors” and that it will enable competitors to get resources that took Google decades to develop. Google had been found to be a monopoly in the case.
Mark was suggesting that the social network should be spun off
Facebook Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust case against Meta on Tuesday. Zuckerberg said that Meta’s market share of social media is around 30%. The FTC has alleged that Meta had illegally monopolized a subset of the social media market through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, both of which the agency is seeking to unwind.
The US judge ruled that the search engine was an illegal Monopoly game
Apple received $20 billion in payments from Google in 2022 for the default position on iPhone browsers, an expert witness for Google said during the first two Sessions in the Google-Apple antitrust case. Earlier, the judge had ruled that Google has monopoly power in general search and general search text ads. A weeklong hearing on remedies is expected this year.
Microsoft faces charges from the EU for abuses
The European Union (EU) has said it will impose a fine on Microsoft if it is found guilty of antitrust violations, if it cannot reach an agreement. In 2004, the EU had ordered Microsoft to offer a Windows operating system without Media Player bundled, which resulted in a Windows XP N version available only in EU markets.
A judge hints at plans for a store for illegal games
A US judge has said that Google will have to do things in a “different way” to comply with a jury’s antitrust verdict against it. The judge said Google would have to change its business as a penalty. In December, the jury had ruled that Google was unfairly giving advantage to itsPlay app store to Epic Games and other app developers.
The EU is looking for Apple, Meta and other companies for investigations
The EU’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has said that Apple’s new fee structure for distributing apps outside of App Store violates the EU’s Digital Markets Act and EU Competition Laws. Vestager added that the probe will now focus on two aspects of Apple’s business – its limits on developers linking to their own websites and how hard Apple makes it to replace default apps.
The US filed a lawsuit against Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones
US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed an antitrust case against Apple, alleging it illegally monopolized the market for app distribution and payments on its iPhones. It said Apple’s conduct made cloud-streaming apps so unattractive to users that no developer designed one for the iPhone. It said Apple’s conduct cleared the way for Apple to launch its breakout success, the iPod.
The U.S. claims that Apple abuses its power in the market for mobile phones
The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust complaint against Apple in New Jersey, alleging that it engages in price-fixing and anti-competitive practices. The DOJ alleged that Apple has used its dominant market position to keep competition out of the computer software industry and limit the variety of products available on its platform. Apple was also accused of preventing competitors from entering the market.
The Empires of Big Tech are being opened up by Europe
Apple has decided to allow third-party browsers to use their own engines in iOS in the EU, one of its responses to the new EU antitrust rules. Apple had blamed the DMA when it decided to drop support for PWAs in the EU. Apple blamed the DMA when it decided to drop support for PWAs in the EU.
Apple was fined for the first time in the EU
The European Union Commission said Apple has banned music streaming app developers from “fully telling iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services” available outside the app. It also banned app providers from sharing instructions on how to subscribe to such offers. Apple has been fined 30 crore for the violations, the largest single-day fine in EU antitrust history.