China has ruled that Nvidia violated anti-monopoly laws with a high-profile 2020 deal, ratcheting up the pressure on Washington as U.S. and Chinese officials meet in Madrid for sensitive trade talks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/15/companies/china-nvidia-antitrust/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #china #nvidia #antitrust #donaldtrump #xijinping
🇪🇺 Microsoft dodges EU fine by unbundling Teams from Office - Ars Technica
｢ The probe, which began after a 2020 complaint from Slack, now part of Salesforce, accused Microsoft of abusing its market dominance by tying its video conferencing tool to its widely used suite of productivity applications ｣
https://www.ft.com/content/2a3242d4-ba06-40a6-84f3-ab6b15dc18f3
maco
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💸 Google Is Fined $3.5 Billion for Breaking Europe’s Antitrust Laws | NYT
｢ The European Commission said Google had abused its dominance to box out rival providers of advertising technology. Google’s control over ad-tech supply chain allows it to see pricing information that rivals cannot access, regulators said. It can also steer advertising businesses to its own services and avoid those of rivals ｣
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/business/google-eu-antitrust-fine.html
💸 Google Is Fined $3.5 Billion for Breaking Europe’s Antitrust Laws | NYT
｢ The European Commission said Google had abused its dominance to box out rival providers of advertising technology. Google’s control over ad-tech supply chain allows it to see pricing information that rivals cannot access, regulators said. It can also steer advertising businesses to its own services and avoid those of rivals ｣
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/business/google-eu-antitrust-fine.html
Agaric Tech Collective
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@EUCommission
"clear rules. The European way of business"?
»#EU #antitrust regulators have delayed fining Alphabet's #Google over its #adtech business, while waiting for the United States to cut tariffs on European cars as part of a trade deal, three people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.«
You're traitors to what Europe should be.
Stronger trade ties, more EU exports, jobs, and growth.
Today, Europe moves forward with two major agreements – with Mercosur 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇺🇾🇵🇾 and Mexico 🇲🇽.
For Europe, two strategic wins👇
@EUCommission
"clear rules. The European way of business"?
»#EU #antitrust regulators have delayed fining Alphabet's #Google over its #adtech business, while waiting for the United States to cut tariffs on European cars as part of a trade deal, three people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.«
You're traitors to what Europe should be.
Alphabet’s Google will have to share some search data with competitors but will not have to sell its popular Chrome web browser, a federal judge has ruled in a landmark antitrust case against the search engine operator. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/03/tech/google-chrome-antitrust/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #google #chrome #internet #alphabet #antitrust
A judge in the US antitrust case against Google ruled that the company does not have to spin off its Chrome web browser or Android operating system. And it can pay to have Google services preinstalled on iPhones and other products, but cannot insist on exclusivity. Google will also have to share some search data with competitors. #Google#Antitrust#Chrome#Search#Androidhttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html
Yogthos
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Tim Chambers
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Almost 10 years ago, I wrote an article about consolidation in movies, and the vertical integration perils of movie studios owning the movie distribution channels.
4 years ago, I republished it, because the trend continued.
Now, the trend keeps going. Not great for the industry or the audience.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/whats-old-is-new-again-antitrust/
#movies #tv #film #television #consolidation #monopoly #antitrust
Almost 10 years ago, I wrote an article about consolidation in movies, and the vertical integration perils of movie studios owning the movie distribution channels.
4 years ago, I republished it, because the trend continued.
Now, the trend keeps going. Not great for the industry or the audience.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/whats-old-is-new-again-antitrust/
#movies #tv #film #television #consolidation #monopoly #antitrust
Next was a great panel on antitrust in labor markets, with a focus on Türkiye, at the GW Competition & Innovation Lab with Eda Sahin-Sengul, Mustafa Ayna, Kate Newman, and Nezir Furkan Kıran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF3EMadizEg (3/7) #antitrust
Wouter Tebbens
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"One would rightly quail if just a few foreign firms owned Europe’s roads, ports or electricity grid. Yet, for 15 years, this is precisely what we’ve allowed to happen to our tech infrastructure — the backbone of our economy and democracy." 💯 #DMA #antitrust#Google#Meta #news #adtech#DigitalSovereignty #StrategicAutonomyhttps://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-brussels-belgium-trade-talks-tech/
"One would rightly quail if just a few foreign firms owned Europe’s roads, ports or electricity grid. Yet, for 15 years, this is precisely what we’ve allowed to happen to our tech infrastructure — the backbone of our economy and democracy." 💯 #DMA #antitrust#Google#Meta #news #adtech#DigitalSovereignty #StrategicAutonomyhttps://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-brussels-belgium-trade-talks-tech/
@sab38
> There are other browsers available that make various changes to Firefox behavior
> There are other browsers available that make various changes to Firefox behavior
Any of those available in F-Droid? AFAIK other than Fennec, all the web browsers available there are wrappers around the Chrome WebView built into Android.
#TechHistory nerd side note:
One outcome of the 2001 antitrust case against BorgSoft was to stop them making all web browsing on Windows depend on Internet Exploiter. The Safari WebView on iThings does *exactly* what BorgSoft were forbidden from doing.
I'm guessing Goggle use various backhanded tricks to push app devs into using the Chrome WebView on Android. We're certainly at risk of future enshittification making it compulsory there too.
#AntiMonopoly prosecutors take note.
Cory Doctorow
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Interesting take on the recent uptick in #antitrust enforcement by @pluralistic. However, I think billionaire capture of politics is much more pronounced in the US compared to other countries that have stricter campaign finance laws. In the US, billionaires can basically “bid” for political power through PACs. #USpol.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114761321796914062
Interesting take on the recent uptick in #antitrust enforcement by @pluralistic. However, I think billionaire capture of politics is much more pronounced in the US compared to other countries that have stricter campaign finance laws. In the US, billionaires can basically “bid” for political power through PACs. #USpol.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114761321796914062
Britain's competition regulator has finally come up with a plan to control Google's search business, but a shift in the political wind in favor of big tech makes it more of a bark than a bite. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/26/tech/uk-politics-antitrust-google/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #google #alphabet #tech #antitrust #uk
⛔ Microsoft is blocking Google Chrome through its family safety feature • The Verge
｢ some users have even found that renaming Chrome.exe to Chrome1.exe works around this issue ｣
https://www.theverge.com/news/690179/microsoft-block-google-chrome-family-safety-feature