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...EU officials said formal proceedings could be prevented if Apple made further concessions....
...In a separate antitrust case, Brussels is consulting with Apple’s rivals over the tech giant’s concessions to appease worries that it is blocking financial groups from its Apple Pay mobile system....
...The European Commission, the executive body of the EU, will say on Wednesday that it has accepted Broadcom’s concessions that VMware’s software will remain operable with rivals’ hardware, said four people...
...“These are extraordinary concessions by Visa, Mastercard and the banks,” said Jaret Seiberg, an analyst at brokerage TD Cowen, who added that the settlement could represent a threat to credit card rewards...
...Apple will allow iPhone apps to be downloaded directly from their developers’ websites for the first time, a major concession to European regulators that marks the third time this year the big tech group...
Meta and Microsoft want Brussels regulators to extract more concessions that unpick iOS mobile software
...The question of whether concessions Microsoft made in a settlement had any real impact on competition has been debated in tech circles ever since....
...Apple has already made concessions. It will allow users in Europe to access rival app stores and payment systems on smartphones and tablets, for example, in a process called sideloading....
...Bernstein also requested that it be allowed to freely sell the Tesla shares without a mandated holding period — for that concession, it said, it was willing to accept the lower 11 per cent fee....
...Further concessions are likely....
...Last year’s strike against the big three unionised US automakers — the first such action ever — resulted in significant concessions on wages and benefits....
...Tesla had requested the concession as a precondition to building a plant in India. The lowered tariffs would apply to all EV makers....
Federal Trade Commission said it secured concessions from pharma company to resolve its competition concerns
...In the US, the United Auto Workers union is making unusually public efforts to unionise workers at 13 carmakers that have non-union plants, including Tesla, after it wrested sizeable pay rises and concessions...
Settlement over Amgen $28bn acquisition shows the antitrust chief still won concessions to protect consumers
...The companies can offer concessions to ease the authority’s concerns ahead of a final decision on whether to block the deal which is expected at the end of February....
...airport, GIP introduced oversized luggage trays and other innovations that cut security screening times by more than half, freeing passengers to spend more in restaurants and shops where GIP received a concession...
...That concession makes the CMA the only global regulator to force significant structural changes to the deal....
...A settlement with US state attorneys-general should soon be made public and will show the concessions Google has already agreed to make around its store....
...The concessions Microsoft made earlier in the year to Brussels, including licences to other cloud services, would be honoured....
...Brussels has already squeezed a significant concession from Microsoft, which agreed to license any cloud games to rival platforms for 10 years....
...A version of this article was first published on October 24 by Nikkei Asia. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Brussels, on the other hand, cleared the merger subject to concessions....
...If business is going well and a company is hitting all its growth targets, why should it be forced by the market’s whim into what looks like a concession of failure?...
...One potential concession to the CMA under consideration by Microsoft is a move to sell cloud streaming rights to its catalogue of games to another provider in the UK, according to people familiar with the...
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