Russia threatens fines if Apple & Google don't remove opposition app
A Russian media watchdog reportedly plans to fine Apple and Google if they refuse to remove an opposition leader's app from their respective app stores.
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Mike Peterson
Apple & big tech use 'loopholes' to escape merger regulations, says FTC
Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan says that Big Tech firms, including Apple, had exploited "loopholes" to make hundreds of acquisition deals without informing antitrust regulators.
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William Gallagher
Google fined $177M by South Korea for abusing smartphone dominance
South Korea fined Google 207.4 billion won (US$177 million) on Tuesday for leveraging its dominant power in the smartphone market to stunt development of competing operating systems.
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Mikey Campbell
Google making its own Chromebook CPU inspired by Apple's M1
Future versions of the Chromebook laptop may be powered by processors designed by Google itself, in a move reportedly inspired by the success of Apple Silicon.
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Backblaze & Vultr cloud partner to fight Amazon AWS
Backup company Backblaze has launched a cloud computing service with Vultr, intending to provide developers with a lower cost alternative to Amazon's S3 and EC2 web services.
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Google appealing $592 million fine by French regulators
Google has announced that it will appeal against the French government's 500 million Euros fine by antitrust regulators, over allegedly disregarding injunctions related to news publications in the country.
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Pay up or get out: Apple's options for South Korea's App Store law
South Korea's ending of App Store payment restrictions raises questions over how Apple can continue its claimed privacy-driven control over apps — and whether it will even comply with the new law.
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Chrome 94 beta improves graphical processing by using Metal
Google is testing the introduction of the WebGPU API to Chrome to improve its graphical processing capabilities using Metal on macOS, with beta 94 also shaking down a new WebCodecs API to assist with media processing.
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Malcolm Owen
South Korea ends Apple, Google control of app store payments
The South Korean government has voted to force Apple and Google to accept alternative payment in the App Store, threatening the companies' exclusive commission.
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AppleInsider Staff
Mike Wuerthele
