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Forcing Apple to allow mobile app developers to offer in-app links to payment platforms could jeopardize the availability of free apps, tech industry groups…

Forcing Apple to allow mobile app developers to offer in-app links to payment platforms could jeopardize the availability of free apps, tech industry groups…

The order “targets Big Tech” alright.  But the negatives are nebulous at best: “The order also expands Biden’s assault on Big Tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook. It establishes an administration-wide policy to scrutinize mergers more heavily, including completed mergers. It zeroes-in on so-called ‘killer acquisitions’ involving nascent competitors, the kind of deal critics say Facebook engaged in when it bought Instagram and WhatsApp. “It takes aim at a key Silicon Valley business model: The collection and use of large amounts of consumer data, and the incentive for te...

The 16th day of a hard-fought trial between Epic, the maker of “Fortnite,” and Apple went out with a debate session between the company’s lawyers as they were peppered with tough questions from U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

Macworld Apple is fighting an epic battle—just how much will it give up? The pressure is on Apple to address accusations of anticompetitive behavior. body> Apple does what it wants to do, and nothing else. At least, that's the company's preference…but sometimes courts and laws and governments get in the way. And at the moment, as some Apple executives sit in court while others ponder the European Commission's finding that it engaged in anticompetitive behavior, it seems like Apple is reaching a point where it's going to have to do some things that it doesn't really want...