Apple, Meta Fined as EU Presses Ahead With Tech Probes April 24, 2025 By Foo Yun Chee and Jan Strupczewski Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators...
Facebook Users Affected by Data Breach Eligible for Compensation: German Court November 19, 2024 A German court said on Monday that Facebook users whose data was illegally obtained in 2018 and 2019 were eligible...
Meta Fined €798 Million by EU Over Abusing Classified Ads Dominance November 18, 2024 By Samuel Stolton Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a €798 million ($841 million) fine by European Union regulators by tying its Facebook...
EU’s Vestager Triumphs in Crackdown on Apple’s Tax Deal, Google’s Practices September 10, 2024 By Foo Yun Chee EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager scored two major wins on Tuesday as Europe’s top court backed her crackdown against Apple’s...
Apple Hit With $2B EU Antitrust Fine in Spotify Case, Will Appeal March 4, 2024 By Foo Yun Chee Brussels fined Apple 1.84 billion euros ($2 billion) on Monday, the iPhone maker’s first ever EU antitrust penalty, for preventing...
Google Hit With $2.3B Lawsuit by 32 European Media Groups February 29, 2024 By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS – Alphabet’s Google was hit with a 2.1-billion-euro ($2.3 billion) lawsuit by 32 media groups including Axel Springer and...
Google Launches Last-Ditch Effort to Overturn $2.6B EU Antitrust Fine September 20, 2023 By Foo Yun Chee Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday made a last-ditch effort at Europe’s top court to overturn a 2.42 billion euro ($2.6 billion)...
Google Hit With Copyright Lawsuit by Danish Online Job-Search Rival September 1, 2023 By Foo Yun Chee Alphabet’s Google was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday by Danish online job-search rival Jobindex, a year after the latter...
Microsoft Hit With EU Antitrust Complaint by German Rival Over Bundling of Teams App July 21, 2023 By Foo Yun Chee Microsoft was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by German rival alfaview on Thursday, the second so far over its...
Google Faces EU Antitrust Charges Over its Ad-Tech Business October 13, 2022 By Foo Yun Chee Alphabet unit Google could face antitrust charges next year over its digital advertising business, with EU regulators frustrated over the...