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...The latest move against Booking comes days after Brussels pushed to crack down on Apple with a fine in the region of €500mn for allegedly breaking EU law relating to access to its music streaming services...
...All large US tech companies, including Amazon, Google and Meta, will have several of their services regulated under the DMA, people familiar with the legislation said....
...communications, and we look forward to explaining to the commission why iMessage is outside the scope of the DMA.”...
...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....
...As part of the settlement, Amazon will let sellers using its Prime membership scheme choose any logistics company and negotiate terms directly, instead of being locked into using Amazon’s logistics services...
...The core of the claim is that Apple uses its market-leading device to draw a growing share of services revenue from users, excluding competitors from access....
...The US Department of Justice last week announced it was suing Apple for allegedly using its power in the smartphone sector to squash competition....
...Meta said: “This appeal seeks clarification on specific points of law regarding the designations of Messenger and Marketplace under the DMA....
...Schiller wrote that the decision was also motivated by Epic chief executive Tim Sweeney’s “colourful criticism” of the company’s plans to comply with the DMA....
...of the company’s $85bn-a-year services business....
...Since December 2022, when Google presented its first set of proposals at the DMA workshop, very little has changed in terms of what appears on the search engine results pages and Google’s own services still...
...“The DMA poses some risk to Apple’s App Store commissions, which is the biggest part of their services business,” he says. It has already had some visible effects....
...To adhere to the DMA, Apple plans to introduce a new fee structure in the EU that will slash the amount paid by companies using the App Store to sell digital goods and services from 30 per cent to 17 per...
...The DMA, a sweeping set of rules unveiled in March 2022, aims to keep in check the market power of six “gatekeepers”: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft....
...“Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies,” an Apple spokesperson said....
...But they are not perfect: the DMA in particular can credibly be accused of protectionism in effect if not provably in intent....
...the DMA”, and reminded the company of the EU’s power to enforce fines of up to 10 per cent of a company’s annual turnover under the new rules....
...In designing the product changes we need to make as a result of the DMA, we have engaged extensively and openly with the European Commission, competitor companies and numerous consumer associations (unlike...
...ranking their own services above those of their rivals....
...They are the Digital Services Act, a law that will increase the responsibilities that digital platforms have over policing illegal content online, and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which is designed to...
...Ek said the debate was not about the cost of using the App Store but that Apple was so dominant for a large group of consumers, functioning as a gatekeeper while also offering competing services....
...There’s a big coalition for that kind of privacy law. What about self-help? That’s a lot farther away, alas. The EU’s DMA will force tech companies to open up their walled gardens for interoperation....
...Some DMA obligations, such as forcing platforms that are deemed “gatekeepers” to allow rival app stores or apps to be installed as alternatives will strike at the heart of how companies such as Apple have...
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