Tag: European Union

January 26, 2024

Apple has now published its planned approach to opening up its App Store in Europe. As predicted, critics don’t like the plans, arguing (also as anticipated) they cost too much. Apple also opened up the worldwide App Store to game […]

January 25, 2024

Fortnite is coming back to the iPhone … for people who live in the European Union. Following Apple’s announcement that it will open the iPhone to third-party app stores in the EU, Epic Games has announced that Fortnite “will return […]

January 18, 2024

Intel’s fight against a $1.2 billion (1.06 billion euros) antitrust fine from the European Union (EU) got a boost Thursday when a top court advisor in Europe pointed out errors in the EU regulators’ economic analysis. The dispute started in […]

January 9, 2024

The European Union is investigating whether Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI amounts to a concealed merger amid efforts to regulate the rapidly advancing generative AI (genAI) sector. The European Commission, serving as the EU’s executive branch, said Tuesday it is starting […]

September 5, 2023

Apple and Microsoft are attempting to circumvent the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) by arguing that neither iMessage nor Bing are sufficiently popular enough to be regulated by the legislation. The DMA was approved in July 2022 and is […]

June 29, 2023

If you’ve been following the tech world in the last few years, you’d know that the European Union has undertaken different actions to try to limit the “power” of big tech corporations. We’ve seen proposed legislation on many fronts aimed […]

December 13, 2022

In order to comply with new European Union laws coming in 2024, Apple is reportedly preparing to allow iPhone and iPad owners to install third-party app stores. Bloomberg reports that software engineers and service employees are currently working to open […]

May 2, 2022

Apple has been hit with an antitrust accusation by the European Union over its exclusion of rivals from its Apple Pay mobile payment system. The EU sent Apple a formal “Statement of Objections” with the preliminary view that Apple has […]

November 24, 2015

1. It only concerns personal data The Safe Harbor agreement was — until it was struck down by the Court of Justice of the European Union on Oct. 6 — a way to reconcile differences between U.S. privacy laws and […]