The US Department of Justice is going after Apple for allegedly breaking antitrust law. It outlined several areas where it thinks Apple is reducing competition leading to worse products.
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CMA, the UK watchdog, is closing its investigations against Meta and Amazon about the use of ad data after securing two commitments from the tech giants. These ensure user and seller protection.
The UK's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Autotalks. It wants to find out if the deal will hurt competition in the United Kingdom.
The FTC has declared war once again on Amazon claiming that the company is allegedly engaging in anticompetitive tactics and unlawful conduct that protect its monopoly in the industry.
The European Commission has named the Big Tech companies that will be considered gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. They will be subject to rules to ensure they don't trample competition.
Google has agreed to make major changes to how it conducts business with partners and phone-makers in India. There are also some significant changes planned for the operating system as a whole.
Amazon UK could be forced to pay out £900 million to customers who have purchased items since October 2016. A case is being brought against the company that claims it has acted uncompetitively.
Ofcom has launched a study into large cloud service providers, communications apps such as WhatsApp, and connected devices like smart TVs and smart speakers. It wants to identify competition concerns.
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has laid out plans for a legislative reform in areas concerning big tech firms. The focus is on transparency of algorithms, privacy, and youth safety.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally given the go ahead of the acquisition of Avast by NortonLifeLock. It said the merger won't give the firm a monopoly position.
Apple has published a 47-page retaliation against the UK Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) complaining about its walled garden approach when it comes to the iPhone, App Store, and WebKit.
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Facebook has written a defiant letter back to the UK's CMA saying its concerns over Facebook's Giphy acquisition are totally unfounded. Facebook's defiance could see the issue drag on.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has raised concerns about Facebook's acquisition of the GIF platform Giphy. It said the merger deprives the internet of a digital advertiser.
Google has committed to limit how it uses advertising data in order to resolve privacy and competition concerns as it orchestrates its Privacy Sandbox with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority.
Samsung has announced a competition set to begin in mid-November where players compete in a digital scavenger hunt to win a Limited Edition QLED TV, and Xbox Series X, and Cyberpunk 2077.
Slack, the company behind the communication tool of the same name, has announced that it has filed a complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission over anti-competitive behavior.
Google has run afoul of Australia's competition regulator and is now facing a trial in Federal Court over alleged misrepresentations of how it collected and used location data from Android devices.
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One of the few real-life Turing Tests, the Loebner Prize will see competitors pitting their human-like bots against each other in the bid to deceive the most number of people this weekend.
With the initiation of the Deepfake Detection Challenge, Facebook, Microsoft, MIT, Oxford, UC Berkeley, and others join hands in figuring out new ways to contain the spread of deepfakes.
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With the rover nearing the end of its development stages, NASA is now looking for potential names for it. The procreator of the chosen name will be invited to Florida for the rover's launch in 2020.
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A new event for PlayStation 4 owners has been announced called PS4 Tournaments: Challenger Series. The seasonal tournament starts August 6 where participants stand a chance to win prizes in real life.
Egypt has given Apple 60 days to end restrictions it has been imposing on local retailers in the country that block them from buying from other distributors and, thus, limit competition.
Microsoft and Foot Locker in Britain, France, and Germany have teamed up in order to offer customers a chance to win an Xbox One S, Xbox Design Lab controllers, Xbox Game Passes, and other items.
A confidential document reveals that Google could be charging Android phone manufacturers in Europe as much as $40 per device under a new licensing deal in response to the EU's antitrust decision.
The European Commission has issued a hefty €4.34 billion fine to Google over illegal Android antitrust practices, with three type of restrictions imposed by the company being regarded in particular.
If owning a solid gold banana has ever been on your list of things to do before you die, read on inside. Microsoft has made it possible for a team of four to win $110,000 worth of gold bananas.
Telegram's first ever Instant View contest has concluded with 2,274 websites becoming supported. Going forward, Telegram hopes to launch another competition to make more sites compatible.
After formally accusing Google last year of having "abused its dominant position" with Android in the EU, the European Commission is now double-checking its findings before it delivers a final ruling.
Microsoft's annual game developers contest, 'Dream.Build.Play', has been brought back to life. But this time developers could win more than $200,000 in prizes in four different categories.
Google has rejected the European Commission's ruling in an antitrust investigation, which found that it had "abused its market dominance as a search engine", favoring its own shopping search results.
Google has been fined a record-breaking $2.7 billion by the European Commission, for having "abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product".
Walmart is sending the message to its vendors that if they want to do business with the retail giant, they better not use Amazon for any of their cloud infrastructure or risk losing the contract.
Good UI design is about making the user's life easier, except for these programmers on an informal Reddit competition, who are trying to make the worst possible volume slider they can think of.
After having been ordered by Ofcom to pay £95m to rivals in late 2012 for backhaul overcharging, BT has failed in its latest attempt to avoid having to pay up. However, the saga may not yet be over.
Ever wonder why Samsung's chips are only found in Samsung devices? According to the South Korean government, it's because Qualcomm has been pressuring Samsung and barring it from competing.
Just a fortnight after it had been spun out into its own company, BT's Openreach has received a record £42 million fine over Ethernet installation delays and shortchanging its rivals due compensation.
Canada's Competition Bureau has announced Friday it is closing its probe on Apple due to lack of evidence. The probe was opened in December 2014 to investigate anti-competitive behavior.
Alcatel is celebrating the holidays by offering the chance to win an Xbox One S, Alcatel IDOL 4S, and much more. The competition is only available to US customers and ends on the 16th of December.
