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Apple App Store, Apple Pay Hit By EU Antitrust Investigations

Double whammy. Apple now facing two separate official European Commission investigations into its App Store and Apple Pay

Alphabet unit begin fightback against European antitrust regulators in three day hearing at EU General Court in Luxembourg

Plaintiffs seek damages and aim to force Facebook to sell WhatsApp and Instagram, and seek to end Mark Zuckerberg’s control of firm

Anti-competitive behaviour and advertising rule breaches. France hits Google with hefty 150m euros penalty over its online advertising domination

Facebook’s Libra questions from EU regulator concern use of customer data and anti-competitive issues

BT lends support to Google’s Android OS over potential fears of Apple dominance

Analysis alleges that Google used its search engine results to place adverts for its own products in top spot

Ballsy move. Search engine officially rejects European Union antitrust charges which could lead to huge penalty

Google is cleared over allegations that it manipulated its search engine algorithms to hurt rivals

Google Maps is deemed anti-competitive in France

Analysts believe that Microsoft’s Bing search engine stands to benefit from the US federal Google probe

Google has received notification of a formal FTC investigation into its search business practice

The antitrust watchdog of the European Commission has expanded its investigation into search engine giant Google

Microsoft has suffered a setback when Japan allowed Google to fuel Yahoo Japan’s search engine

Intel and the Federal Trade Commission reportedly have reached a settlement over the anti-competitive lawsuit filed against Intel