reader comments 110 Epic Games has filed a proposed injunction that would stop Google from restricting third-party app distribution outside Google Play Store on Android devices after proving that Google had an illegal monopoly in markets for Android app distribution. Epic is suggesting that competition on the Android mobile platform would be opened up if ..
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reader comments 32 European Union regulators are concerned that Microsoft may be covertly controlling OpenAI as its biggest investor. On Tuesday, the European Commission (EC) announced that it is currently “checking whether Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI might be reviewable under the EU Merger Regulation.” The EC’s executive vice president in charge of competition policy, Margrethe Vestager, ..
reader comments 25 with On Tuesday, Google ended two and a half weeks of defending its search business against the Department of Justice’s monopoly claims, reportedly with a whimper. During the DOJ’s cross-examination of Google’s final witness, Kevin Murphy, the economist got “upset” when the DOJ introduced a 2011 email from an ex-Google executive, Chris ..
reader comments 92 with Google’s default search deal with Apple is worth so much to the search giant that Google pays 36 percent of its search advertising revenue from Safari to keep its search engine set as the default in Apple’s browser, Bloomberg reported. Google and Apple objected to making this key detail public from ..
reader comments 13 with Slowly but surely, the public will start gaining more access to evidence shared in the Department of Justice’s antitrust trial probing Google’s search business, following an intervention by press outlets. In a motion to intervene, outlets earlier this month told the court that they were struggling to cover the trial because ..
reader comments 68 with Last week, the Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon, alleging that the online retailer was illegally maintaining a monopoly. Much of the FTC’s complaint against Amazon was redacted, but The Wall Street Journal yesterday revealed key details obscured in the complaint regarding a secret algorithm. The FTC alleged that Amazon once used ..
reader comments 114 with Today, US District Judge Amit Mehta heard opening statements in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case challenging Google’s search dominance. Mehta alone will decide if Google maintained its role as the world’s search leader by competing on its own merits—as Google has claimed—or through anticompetitive conduct—which the DOJ has alleged. The ..
Enlarge / Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission. reader comments 85 with Antitrust enforcers released a draft update outlining new rules today that officials say will make it easier to crack down on mergers and acquisitions that could substantially lessen competition in the US. Now the public has 60 days to review the ..
Enlarge / Klaus Teuber, in 2015 at a games festival in Essen, Germany. Teuber created The Settlers of Catan (later just Catan), along with other award-winning board games. Picture Alliance via Getty Images reader comments 15 with Share this story I was in my early 30s when I first played The Settlers of Catan. I ..
Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 77 with 40 posters participating Share this story Microsoft’s $75 billion acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard faces in-depth probes in Brussels and the UK following growing concerns the deal is anti-competitive and will exclude rivals from accessing the blockbuster game Call of Duty. It comes as the ..