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The US Department of Justice is suing Apple over a smartphone monopoly that it deems is allowing Apple to "extract more money from consumers."The DOJ accuses Apple of operating with an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market that allows the company to lock down the best iPhones."Apple exercises its monopoly power to extract more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and merchants, among others,” the lawsuit says.Alongside 16 states, the DOJ says Apple is causing…

Epic Games wins antitrust case against Google Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google 05:54 A federal court jury has decided that Google's Android app store has…

A federal appeals court said the U.S. government was right to challenge Illumina’s purchase of cancer-test developer Grail, but still sent the case back to the Federal Trade Commission for reconsideration.A three-judge panel found the deal to be anticompetitive, but said the FTC erred in how it considered Illumina’s proposed fix for its drawbacks. The judges ordered the FTC to reconsider its opinion on the troubled deal, which the European Commission has already ordered Illumina to unwind.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones &…

Zoom Video Communications has met with regulators from the United States, European Union, and other jurisdictions to outline concerns about Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behavior, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The video conferencing platform has spoken with the US Federal Trade Commission, as well as competition enforcers from the EU, UK, and Germany over the past year, the report said, citing a person familiar with the matter.Zoom had expressed its concerns about the way Microsoft has given preference to…

Alphabet's Google formally filed a complaint to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday saying Microsoft used its dominant position in enterprise software to push customers towards its cloud services, The Information reported on Wednesday.Microsoft used the licensing terms in its Office 365 productivity software to lock customers into separate contracts with its Azure cloud server business, Google's complaint said, according to the report. There is intense rivalry between the two U.S. tech giants in the…

Google is now under investigation by India's competition watchdog, as per a regulatory order viewed by Reuters on…

The US Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against the Call of Duty company, claiming Activision Blizzard made rules for Overwatch and Call of Duty esports leagues and players that were anticompetitive. The DOJ claims Activision Blizzard is violating the Sherman Act.For its part, Activision Blizzard tells GameSpot that it does not believe it broke the law, and it appears the case has been settled on the same day it was filed. This was the second major lawsuit involving the US government…

Apple is once again in the crosshairs of Spotify and seven other companies who believe that its App Store practices are anti-competitive.Spotify has never been shy about calling out Apple’s practices and it’s at the forefront of a new open letter sent to European regulators in which it asks for the company to be brought to task over the App Store and what it believes is behavior that stifles innovation. A red letter day In the open letter, which Spotify has published on its website, the music streamer alleges that Apple…

Google's anti-competitive activities are harming Indian consumers and the economy by stifling "swadeshi" (indigenous) competitors, a top official of home-grown navigation firm MapMyIndia said. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October slapped a steep penalty of Rs 1,337.76 crore on internet giant Google for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets in relation to Android mobile devices and ordered the internet major to cease and desist from various unfair business practices. Google has approached the…

E-commerce giant MercadoLibre said on Monday it has filed complaints against Apple with antitrust regulators in Brazil and Mexico for anti-competitive practices, accusing the US-based firm of abusing what it called a monopoly in the distribution of apps for its devices.In a statement, the e-commerce giant said that Apple had imposed a series of restrictions on the distribution of digital goods and in-app purchases, including banning apps from distributing third-party digital goods and services such as movies, music, video…