Tag: competition regulator
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Hacker News: France fines Apple €150M for "excessive" pop-ups that let users reject tracking
Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/france-fines-apple-e150m-for-excessive-pop-ups-that-let-users-reject-tracking/ Source: Hacker News Title: France fines Apple €150M for "excessive" pop-ups that let users reject tracking Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The French competition regulator has fined Apple €150 million due to its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework being overly complicated for users, which adversely affects small publishers…
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The Register: Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market’s smaller players
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/cma_overlooks_factors_hurting_small/ Source: The Register Title: Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market’s smaller players Feedly Summary: Global giants shouldn’t be allowed to make ‘committed spend’ public sector deals and make discounts we cannot match Britain’s competition regulator is facing biting criticism from local cloud providers for declining to act…
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The Register: Microsoft: So what if costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/microsoft_blasts_uk_market_regulator/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft: So what if costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google? Feedly Summary: That’s competition, that’s protecting our IP, Redmond’s lawyers tell UK competition regulator For AWS and Google to urge the UK competition regulator to “intervene and constrain the price" that…