The European Commission (EC) has opened an antitrust investigation into US-based glass-maker Corning, claiming that its Gorilla Glass has dominated the mobile phone screen market due to restrictive deals and licensing. Corning’s shatter-resistant alkali-aluminosilicate glass keeps its place atop the market, according to the EC’s announcement, because it both demands, and rewards with rebates, device… Read More »
reader comments 40 Broadcom CEO Hock Tan this week publicized some concessions aimed at helping customers and partners ease into VMware’s recent business model changes. Tan reiterated that the controversial changes, like the end of perpetual licensing, aren’t going away. But amid questioning from antitrust officials in the European Union (EU), Tan announced that the… Read More »
Sean Gladwell via Getty reader comments 4 with The UK competition watchdog is launching a review of the artificial intelligence market, including the models behind popular chatbots such as ChatGPT, as the industry comes increasingly into global regulators’ crosshairs. Sarah Cardell, chief executive of the UK Competition and Markets Authority, said the watchdog would examine… Read More »
reader comments 45 with Share this story The UK’s communications watchdog has called for a probe into Microsoft and Amazon’s dominance of the country’s cloud computing market in the latest challenge to the tech giants from global regulators. Ofcom said on Wednesday it was “particularly concerned” by the practices of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft,… Read More »
reader comments 226 with 143 posters participating Share this story ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Renters filed a lawsuit this week alleging that a company that makes price-setting software for apartments and nine of the nation’s biggest… Read More »
reader comments 276 with 115 posters participating Share this story ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 20 with 18 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has escaped the recent backlash against the power and wealth of the biggest US tech companies. Despite a stock market value that has soared to more than $2 trillion on its dominance of various parts of the business software… Read More »
Enlarge / Microsoft sign at the entrance of their Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California. reader comments 123 with 65 posters participating Share this story Microsoft this week adopted a whole slew of “fairness principles” for its Windows app store. The list of principles does look like a decent set of guidelines for both… Read More »