Eu Antitrust News Today

Vestager will meet Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and its chief legal officer Kent Walker, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in San Francisco and Palo Alto on Thursday and Friday.

EU authorities are putting the finishing touches to a decision that would prohibit Apples practice of blocking music services from pushing their users away from App Store to alternative subscription options, the report said, citing people familiar with the investigation.

Alphabets Google on Friday criticised a potential order from EU antitrust regulators to sell part of its lucrative adtech business, saying it was disproportionate or not right for its advertising partners.

The European Commission two weeks ago warned that the deal may reduce competition in the global market for the supply of interactive product design software where market leader Figma competes with Adobe.

Amazon is set to win unconditional EU approval for $1.4 billion acquisition of robot vacuum maker

The European Commission will announce its decision next week, underlining its concerns that the deal could expand Bookings ecosystem of travel services which include flights, accommodation, car rentals and attractions.

Microsoft last month offered to sell its cloud streaming rights to Ubisoft Entertainment after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked the biggest gaming deal in history.

Microsoft will unbundle its chat and video app Teams from its Office product and make it easier for rival products to work with its software, the U.S. company said on Thursday in a move aimed at staving off a possible EU antitrust fine.

Microsoft: The tech giant also said Thursday that it would take steps to make it easier for competing products to work alongside its software.

The EU competition enforcer cleared the deal in May after Microsoft agreed to licence popular Activision games such as "Call of Duty" to rival game streaming platforms for 10 years.