Sen. Sherrod Brown has a well-deserved reputation as an economic progressive and staunch union ally, whose focus on the “dignity of work” has helped him hold his seat for three terms in the increasingly Republican state of Ohio. But Brown, who is up for reelection in a race that will be critical to Democrats retaining … Read more
Europe changed the rules of the internet this week when the Digital Markets Act took effect, holding the biggest tech companies to tough new standards. Now the world is waiting to see which giant will be first to fall foul of the law. One of the architects of the DMA says Apple is a strong … Read more
President Joe Biden previewed a key piece of the agenda he plans to tout Thursday at the State of the Union address by holding a meeting Tuesday of economic regulators to announce plans to lower prices, tackle junk fees and increase market competition. But the antitrust agenda, now a major political talking point for the … Read more
The experiments found that about 73 percent of about 500 people using that new design clicked results that kept them inside Google’s ecosystem—an increase over the 55 percent who did so when the design Google is phasing out in Europe was tested with a smaller pool of roughly 250 people. Yelp also tested a variation … Read more
The book traces the following thesis: At first, the internet was open, but limited. Private companies brought interactivity to the web and grew fat on the proceeds, but that made it difficult for users to leave their networks and for competitors to enter the market. The concentration of power in the hands of Big Tech … Read more
The revisions provide developers “a meaningful opportunity” to do business outside of Apple’s billing system “while also enabling users to make an informed choice” about where to transact, attorneys for the company say in a court filing. The arrangement is similar to how Apple began allowing alternative purchase options—with a fee—in the Netherlands and South … Read more
Right, and this is a very US-centric problem, because in other places those third-party messaging apps are more dominant. Yes. So iMessage is integrated in the iPhone operating system in a very deep way. But that’s not “premium.” That’s anticompetitive. You wrote in a blog post late last month that every time there’s an outage … Read more
The US Department of Justice has got mail: A coalition of more than a dozen tech advocacy groups wrote to the agency today calling on it to launch an investigation into allegedly anticompetitive behavior by Apple. The letter says that Apple’s recent blocking of Beeper, which reverse engineered iMessage to allow compatibility with Android phones, … Read more
Google agreed to pay $700 million to settle a complaint brought by state attorneys general alleging the tech giant engaged in antitrust practices related to its Android app store. The deal was initially struck between the parties in September, but the agreement was filed late Monday night in San Francisco federal court. The settlement — which … Read more
