Australia aims to tax tech giants unless they pay news outlets
Australia unveiled draft laws on Tuesday that would tax tech giants Meta, Google and TikTok unless they voluntarily strike deals to pay local outlets for news.
Apr 28, 2026
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Page 2: Research news on Digital platform antitrust
Digital platform antitrust concerns the application of competition law and related regulatory frameworks to large online platforms with significant market power, such as search engines, app stores, social networks, and ad technology intermediaries. The field examines abuses of dominance, exclusionary agreements, self‑preferencing, data-driven market power, and structural remedies, and increasingly integrates privacy, data access, and interoperability obligations under instruments like the EU Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, as well as analogous enforcement actions in the United States and other jurisdictions.
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US Supreme Court hears privacy case involving smartphone location data
The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday about law enforcement's use of "geofence warrants"—the collection of smartphone location data about everyone who was near a particular place at a specific time.
Apr 27, 2026
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EU tells Google to open Android to AI rivals
The EU on Monday laid out measures it wants Google to take to open up its operating system to rival AI services, in a move slammed by the US tech giant.
Apr 27, 2026
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EU spells out how Google must share data with rivals
The European Commission set out Thursday how it wants Google to make a wide range of data accessible to rival search engines in order to comply with the bloc's digital rules.
Apr 16, 2026
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EU threatens to force Meta to restore WhatsApp full access for rival AI chatbots
European Union regulators have threatened to force WhatsApp parent Meta Platforms to reverse a move that they say effectively limits the AI chatbots of rival companies from accessing the messaging app.
Apr 15, 2026
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Your brain for sale? The new frontier of neural data
Your browsing history, your location, your political preferences. For years, tech companies have found ways to turn personal data into profit. Now, a new and far more intimate frontier is opening: the electrical signals produced ...
Apr 7, 2026
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Microsoft business software faces UK competition probe
Britain's competition watchdog announced plans on Tuesday to launch an investigation into Microsoft's business software systems, under new measures targeting the dominance of technology giants.
Mar 31, 2026
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EU clears Google's $32 bn bid for Wiz cybersecurity company
The EU on Tuesday unconditionally approved Google's $32 billion bid for cloud security platform Wiz after finding it raised no competition concerns in Europe.
Feb 10, 2026
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EU warns Meta it must open up WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots
The EU executive told Meta on Monday that it must let rival AI chatbots use its WhatsApp platform, after an antitrust probe found the US giant to be in breach of the bloc's competition rules.
Feb 9, 2026
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Germany claws back 59 mn euros from Amazon over price controls
Germany's competition watchdog ordered Amazon on Thursday to stop implementing price controls for retailers on its marketplace and told the US tech giant to return 59 million euros ($70 million) in what it deemed unfair gains.
Feb 5, 2026
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