Displaying items by tag: Anticompetitive

The North American-based Coalition for Fair Software Licensing has called on the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft's licensing practices which it claims are anti-competitive.

Epic Games is used to people fighting online inside its popular and lucrative game Fortnite, but now the software house is taking its fight to the courtrooms against big guns Apple and Google.

The European Union has raised the prospect that it may consider breaking up Google into a number of smaller units, saying it harbours "grave suspicions" about the firm's dominance of the search market.

Google's rivals in the online advertising and shopping fields say the search behemoth continues to prevent others from competing fairly, despite having copped a huge fine from the European Union and been ordered to modify its ways.

A day before a deadline set by the European Union, Google has taken steps to rectify what the political grouping had alleged was the use of its search engine dominance to favour itself in its comparison shopping service.