Organisation: Apple Inc

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has discussed the possibility of breaking up Google’s online advertising business in its final sector inquiry report, as the country’s lawmakers prepare to give the agency new powers to order structural divestments after a market study.

31 May 2023

It is of the “utmost importance” for the future of state aid enforcement for the EU’s highest court to find that Apple owes Ireland over €13 billion in back taxes, the European Commission has argued, as the company insisted it is paying that tax in the US.

24 May 2023

Italy’s antitrust watchdog is investigating whether Apple has abused its dominance in the applications market by imposing a restrictive privacy policy on third-party app developers and limiting their access to device users’ advertising data.

11 May 2023

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has found “no compelling reason” to let the national antitrust enforcer appeal against its decision to quash a market investigation into Apple’s and Google’s dominance in the mobile browser and cloud gaming sectors.

03 May 2023

An appellate court has affirmed a California federal judge’s decision to dismiss claims brought by Epic Games that Apple illegally maintained monopolies over app distribution and payments.

25 April 2023

Apple has said it will appeal against the German competition authority’s finding that it has “paramount significance for competition across markets”, which would subject the company to heightened scrutiny and controls by the enforcer.

05 April 2023

Advertisement purchasers seeking to break up Apple and Google provided no evidence that the companies colluded to avoid competing with each other in the online search sector, a federal judge in Oakland has ruled.

05 April 2023

The UK antitrust enforcer has said a ruling from the Competition Appeal Tribunal to quash its market investigation into Apple’s and Google’s dominance in the mobile browser and cloud gaming sectors risks “substantially undermining” its powers.

03 April 2023

Claimants in a £1.5 billion class action claim against Apple have urged the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal to order the iPhone maker to explain how it deems 7,000 documents filed to the country’s antitrust watchdog are irrelevant to the lawsuit.

20 March 2023

Apple has urged the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal to quash a market investigation launched by the national antitrust watchdog last year, claiming the agency breached the procedural rules for initiating such an inquiry.

10 March 2023