Organisation: WhatsApp
Meta continues to rack up non-compliance fines in Turkey
Meta has accumulated nearly €16 million in fines from the Turkish Competition Authority after the agency imposed daily sanctions on the company for failing to prove it has stopped combining data from WhatsApp with its social media platform.
04 April 2024
Kingspan rejects EU misinformation claims
Irish construction company Kingspan has criticised an EU chargesheet alleging it provided misleading information during a merger review, claiming the deal probe itself was “unusual and uniquely onerous”.
19 March 2024
Two down, four to go: The Briefing for 19 March 2024
Meta was in the hot seat today facing questions over its changes to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act. While the tech giant’s subscription fees for its non-personalised advertising service have drawn criticism, the company’s interoperability measures are already gaining traction, with both “brand new” and “familiar” companies seeking access. Also in The Briefing, French competition chief Benoît Cœuré says the challenge of regulating artificial intelligence is keeping him up at night.
19 March 2024
Israeli agency warns against food price coordination amid tensions with minister
Israel’s Competition Authority has reiterated that an agreement between the country’s major supermarket retailers to coordinate prices could damage competition after a minister took the "unprecedented" step of urging over 20 businesses to lobby the agency for an antitrust exemption.
18 March 2024
DMA deadline day: Google’s changes spark criticism, Apple, Meta spell-out compliance
DuckDuckGo, Epic Games and a slew of industry groups believe Google’s latest efforts to meet the imminent Digital Markets Act compliance deadline fail to adequately address the harms the regulation seeks to prevent.
06 March 2024
Meta hit with antitrust fines in Turkey and Israel
Meta faces daily fines of €146,000 in Turkey for breaching an antitrust order, while the tech company agreed to pay €6 million and notify all future deals in Israel to settle two gun-jumping probes.
11 January 2024
MyCC imposes record €81.8 million penalty on chicken feed cartel
Five feedmillers colluded over a two-and-a-half year period to increase the price of poultry feed, Malaysia’s Competition Commission has found in one of its most high-profile antitrust cases.
02 January 2024
Turkey probes Meta’s tying of Threads with Instagram
Meta is under investigation in Turkey for allegedly abusing its dominance by tying its Threads platform with Instagram.
12 December 2023
EU’s Digital Markets Act faces first challenges
Meta and TikTok have challenged aspects of their designations under the EU’s Digital Markets Act.
16 November 2023
Short-term impact of DMA not revolutionary, EU enforcer says
The immediate effects of the Digital Markets Act may not feel revolutionary on the day that compliance obligations kick in, but the long-term changes it creates will be substantial, the European Commission’s head of unit for digital platforms has said.
09 November 2023