Big hit for big tech: Apple, Google suffer multibillion-$ blows in EUEU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager achieved significant victories as Europe's top court upheld her actions against Apple's Irish tax dea...
10 Sep, 2024, 10.26 PM IST
EU's Vestager triumphs in crackdown on Apple's tax deal, Google's practicesVestager, who ends her term in November, has made a name for herself going after Big Tech's tax arrangements with some EU countries and att...
10 Sep, 2024, 04.35 PM IST
No point Googling ‘swadeshi’A set of entrepreneurs of local internet companies are labelling Google's eviction of their apps from Play Store as hegemonic. People Group...
16 Mar, 2024, 10.38 AM IST
Indian tech's nationalist backlash against US giants: Calls for stronger antitrust measuresIndian internet companies have periodically raised concerns about the dominance of US tech giants, invoking nationalist sentiments. However...
06 Mar, 2024, 11.16 PM IST
Qualcomm looks to Europe court again to overturn antitrust fineThe European Commission slapped the fine on Qualcomm in 2019 for selling its chipsets below cost between 2009 and 2011, in a practice known...
13 Mar, 2023, 04.30 PM IST
CCI must bust cartels, bane of competitionThe Competition Commission of India's (CCI) approach towards antitrust violations by micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) - letting ...
17 Aug, 2022, 11.07 PM IST
Intel seeks $624 million in interest from EU after antitrust fine winIntel in its application to the Luxembourg-based General Court said the Commission, which acts as the competition watchdog in the 27-countr...
20 Jun, 2022, 08.27 PM IST
Intel wins appeal against $1.2 billion EU antitrust fineThe European Commission penalised Intel in 2009 for trying to block rival Advanced Micro Devices by giving rebates to computer makers Dell,...
26 Jan, 2022, 04.15 PM IST
Google loses court challenge against EU antitrust rulingVestager sanctioned the world's most popular internet search engine in 2017 for favouring its own price-comparison shopping service to give...
10 Nov, 2021, 04.17 PM IST
Google to change global ad practices after French watchdog imposes fineThe settlement which also saw Google fined $268 million, is the first time the U.S. tech giant has agreed to make changes to its huge adver...
07 Jun, 2021, 08.33 PM IST
Timeline: Events leading up to China's $2.75 billion fine on AlibabaAlibaba has come under intense scrutiny in China since its billionaire founder Jack Ma's stinging public criticism of the country's regulat...
12 Apr, 2021, 01.54 PM IST
Timeline: Events leading up to China's $2.75 billion fine on AlibabaThe Alibaba business empire has come under intense scrutiny in China since its billionaire founder Jack Ma's stinging public criticism of t...
10 Apr, 2021, 01.17 PM IST
US sues Facebook over its WhatsApp, Instagram acquisition; alleges it crushed smaller rivalsThe landmark antitrust lawsuits, announced by the Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General Letitia James, mark the second maj...
11 Dec, 2020, 06.45 AM IST
Intel wins round in fight over $1.26B antitrust fineIntel is among the few companies to have continued a battle against a European Commission fine all the way to the top EU court.
07 Sep, 2017, 12.07 AM IST
- Ongoing CCI investigation details to go public soon; hopes to encourage whistleblowers
The CCI of India is likely to start posting on its website details of cases as early as next month, a senior official, who did not wish to ...
04 Jul, 2012, 04.21 AM IST
- We may have broken US anti-bribery law: Sun Microsystem
Sun Microsystems Inc may have broken anti-bribery laws with its actions in an unspecified location outside the United States, a revelation ...
09 May, 2009, 09.10 PM IST
- Microsoft drops South Korea anti-trust appeal
South Korea's anti-trust body ruled last year that Microsoft had breached anti-trust laws by bundling its Windows operating system with its...
16 Oct, 2007, 10.01 AM IST