Nicholas Hirst

Google has scored a victory at the EU courts, with judges scrapping a 2019 fine imposed for anticompetitive contracts related to online advertising.

Apple will receive formal instructions from EU tech enforcers on how it should comply with legislation requiring it to make iPhones and iPads interoperable with other companies' devices and software.

Take note, TF1, RTL and other broadcasters hoping to join forces to shore up ad revenues being lost to Big Tech: EU judges see little competition between different advertising media and technologies.

Apple has responded to a move by EU tech regulators to provide guidance on complying with interoperability duties, by pointing to the CrowdStrike

Security scanner manufacturer Nuctech will have to face off against France in its fight to overturn European Commission dawn raids probing the existence of distortive Chinese subsidies, MLex has learned.

Voluntary changes by Russian energy giant Gazprom in 2018 to settle an EU antitrust probe have been upheld by judges at the EU's top court, who rejected an appeal by Poland's largest oil and gas company.

The EU prohibition on companies abusing their dominance suffers from “serious underenforcement” in the Netherlands with Dutch consumers being the main victims, according to the head of the national competition authority.

Microsoft could face heavier antitrust interventions against its software and tech offerings in Germany, with the national competition authority

The time-lag for Apple to approve interoperability requests prompted an EU move to provide binding guidance to the company on how to comply with certain provisions of the EU's "gatekeeper" tech legislation.

European browser-makers have complained to EU tech enforcers that Microsoft is self-preferencing its Edge browser on Windows, in breach of its obligations under the bloc's Digital Markets Act, MLex has learned.