Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...made it harder for companies to generate money through digital advertising....
...Companies that are defined as gatekeepers, including Apple, Amazon and Google, need to fully comply with these rules under the Digital Markets Act by early next month....
...The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, is investigating whether iMessage should be on a list of services that must comply with the new Digital Markets Act, and so be able to connect seamlessly...
...Oliver Bethell, director of competition at Google, said: “To comply with the Digital Markets Act, we have made significant changes to the way our services operate in Europe . . ....
...A California jury did not have much time for Google this week....
...That’s a sum Apple will fish out from the couch cushions, but is a taste of the fines and remedies that could come with the EU investigation of Apple’s and Google’s app stores under the Digital Markets Act...
...The EU this morning announced investigations into Apple, Alphabet and Meta in the first applications of its landmark Digital Markets Act....
...That involved one small feature of Google’s search engine. The DMA, by contrast, has taken on the entirety of some of the most prominent digital services in use today....
...“When we talk about Amazon, Meta, Google, it’s a very different type of lay-offs.”...
...Reddit’s main source of revenue is digital advertising. It estimates a $1tn digital advertising market opportunity, meaning it currently has a sub-0.1 per cent slice of the total....
...While the duopoly of Google and Facebook parent Meta still rules the $270bn US digital advertising market, a window has opened up for traditional retailers to grab some of that market share....
...Google, Meta, ByteDance, Alibaba and Amazon are now the five biggest global sellers of advertising....
...In December a federal jury in California found that Google broke antitrust law, with the judge in the case now poised to decide what changes Google must make to its business practices to comply with that...
...Epic’s in-game sales of digital items and upgrades are also subject to Apple and Google’s commission fees....
...The business is part of Google’s Services business, which boasts an operating margin of 35 per cent. Compare Netflix with YouTube instead of Disney and the model looks altogether less appealing....
...But regulators are concerned some of these companies, which include Meta, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, are failing to comply or are introducing changes that will leave markets and consumers worse off....
...As a result, Google was able to funnel digital purchases through its Play Store and its proprietary billing mechanism, charging an excessive commission fee of as much as 30 per cent, Epic claimed....
...In a developer update in mid-February, Apple said allowing alternative browser engines — run by groups including Google, Microsoft and Mozilla — to offer web apps to comply with the DMA raised “complex security...
...Tech companies face a March 6 deadline to comply with the new Digital Markets Act....
...Let’s put aside the fact that Google’s Android mobile operating system controls 70 per cent of the market worldwide (and 40 per cent in the US)....
...The EU requires large tech companies, including Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, to inform Brussels by March how they are complying with the act, in legislation aimed at tackling the market power of Silicon...
...The DoJ last year sued Google for allegedly exercising monopolistic control of the digital advertising market....
...Alphabet is defending itself against a lawsuit from the US Department of Justice that accuses it of using anti-competitive agreements to gain a monopoly in online search and therefore digital advertising...
...Sideloading could have an impact on the App Store, where Apple charges developers as much as a 30 per cent fee on digital purchases. Games account for more than half of that revenue....
...Google and Apple take a cut of payments made for digital goods and subscriptions within apps listed on their stores....
International Edition