Margrethe Vestager News

The European Union has fined Apple nearly $2 billion by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps

EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager will hold a press conference on a competition case at 1200 GMT, the European Commission said on Monday without providing details. She is likely to announce a fine and an order to iPhone maker Apple to allow Spotify and other music streaming services inform users of options outside Apple's App Store, sources close to the matter said.

The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook to almost all online platforms in the bloc

European Union's competition czar Margrethe Vestager on Friday said US tech giants will have to strictly abide by the bloc's new rules on how they do business when they come into force in two months. EU competition commissioner Vestager was on a visit to Silicon Valley where she met with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and other big tech executives.

EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said she met with the chief executives of Apple, Alphabet and Qualcomm to discuss regulation and competition policy compliance, in posts on social media platform X on Friday. Last week, Vestager's communications adviser said she would speak to chief executives of Apple, Alphabet, Broadcom and Nvidia in the United States, focusing on European digital regulation including the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and competition policy.

Microsoft's investment into ChatGPT developer OpenAI to see if it merits further investigation under the bloc's merger rules. The European Commission said in a statement it was «checking whether Microsoft's investment in OpenAI might be reviewable under the EU Merger Regulation».

antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager will meet the chief executives of Apple, Alphabet, Broadcom and Nvidia in the United States next week, her communications advise said on Friday. The meetings come a month after Vestager resumed her job following her failed bid to head the Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank, with antitrust experts expecting her to show a tougher line towards companies in both merger and competition investigations.

Alphabet Inc. will pay $700 million and alter its Google Play policies to settle claims that the app store unlawfully dominates the Android mobile applications market, resolving antitrust complaints brought by attorneys general of about three dozen states and consumers. The deal, disclosed in a court filing late Monday, calls for changes to Play Store policies to reduce barriers to competition in the markets for app distribution and payment processing.

Amazon won’t have to pay about $273 million in back taxes after European Union judges ruled in favor of the U.S. e-commerce giant

Alphabet’s Google said that the European Union’s threat to break up its profitable ad tech arm was “flawed” as it formally took aim at the bloc’s allegations of anticompetitive conduct.

The European Union’s powerful antitrust chief has withdrawn as a candidate for the presidency of the European Investment Bank

BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) -EU finance ministers on Friday picked Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Nadia Calvino to become the next head of the European Investment Bank in a boost for Spain's clout within the bloc.

Apple might end up on the hook after all for billions of euros in back taxes to Ireland in the latest twist in a longrunning European Union dispute

Apple Inc. risks having to pay a €13 billion ($14 billion) tax bill to Ireland after an adviser to the European Union’s top court said the iPhone maker’s victory in an earlier challenge should be thrown out.

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By Rodrigo Campos

Google accused the European Union of overreach by imposing a ₹2.4 billion ($2.6 billion) fine over how it favoured its own shopping services to the detriment of rivals. The Alphabet Inc. unit can't be expected to treat its competitors the same as it does its own businesses, lawyers for the US tech giant argued before judges at the EU's highest court.

OpenAI, Andrew Hopkins of Exscientia, Nancy Xu of Moonhub, Kate Kallot of Amini, Pelonomi Moiloa of Lelapa AI, Jack Clark of Anthropic, Raquel Urtasan of Waabi, Aidan Gomez of Cohere and more are among in the list. Moreover, the list also features 41 women and nonbinary individuals, which includes CEO & co-founder of Humane Intelligence Rumman Chowdhury; cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane; COO of Google DeepMind Lila Ibrahim; General Manager of the Data Center and AI Group at Intel Sandra Rivera; chief AI ethics scientist at Hugging Face Margaret Mitchell; Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li; artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz; artist Kelly McKernan; Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President, European Commission; Anna Eshoo, Representative, US Congress; Sneha Revanur, Founder and President, Encode Justice; Verity Harding, Director of the AI & Geopolitics Project, Cambridge University; Sarah Chander, Senior Policy Advisor, European Digital Rights; Nina Jankowicz, Vice President, Centre for Information Resilience; Elham Tabassi, Associate Director of Emerging Technologies, NIST among others.

The European Union’s Commission is reshuffling more of its top management because antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager of Denmark is seeking to become the president of the European Investment Bank

By Foo Yun Chee

The European Union has opened an antitrust investigation into Microsoft over concerns that bundling its Teams messaging and videoconferencing app with its Office productivity software gives it an unfair edge over competitors