France slaps Job’s Mob with €150m fine for privacy power play
Watchdog says App Tracking Transparency wasn’t as innocent as it looked
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s much-hyped App Tracking Transparency feature has earned it a €150 million slap on the wrist from France’s antitrust bloodhounds, who say it used privacy as a smokescreen to stiff the competition.
Apple gets a kicking in German courts
Sorry Mr Cook you are a “significant market power”
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple just got a spanking in Germany’s highest civil court, losing its bid to shake off the "significant market power" label that puts it under the microscope of the country’s antitrust watchdog.
China takes on Nvidia
Tech giant caught in the crossfire of global chip warfare
China has again donned its anti-monopoly cape, this time swooping in to "investigate" Nvidia.
Brazilian regulator orders Apple to lift in-app purchase restrictions
Takes on the fruity cargo cult
Brazils antitrust regulator Cade has taken the brave step of telling Apple what to do and order the fruity cargo cult to lift restrictions on payment methods for in-app purchases.
DoJ wants the Fall of Chrome
Breaking up Google’s monopoly
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has intensified its antitrust actions against Google, proposing a radical measure that would force Alphabet, Google's parent company, to sell its Chrome browser.
Vole accuses Google of running European "shadow campaigns"
Wants to discredit Microsoft with regulators
Software King of the World Microsoft has slammed Google for running "shadow campaigns" in Europe designed to discredit the software giant with regulators.
Apple sued for bricking phones
Fruity cargo cult revenged itself on DIY repairs
Fruity, Tax-Dodging cargo cult Apple has been charged with bricking the phones of users who dared to have their repairs done by those who did not wear blue shirts and had been blessed as Genii by the ghost of Steve Jobs.
South Korea investigates Google
Playing monopoly
South Korea's antitrust regulator has admitted for the first time that it is looking into whether Google has violated the country's anticompetition laws.
Nadella heads to China to talk about monopoly
We have two hotels on Tiananmen Square
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella is in Beijing this week to head off some possible problems with China's anti-trust investigation.
Nvidia wants Qualcomm to pay for monopoly play
Crushed chipset deal
Nvidia has dragged Qualcomm into court for allegedly crushing a $352 million chipset deal.
