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EU Slams Apple With $1.95B Fine for Blocking Cheaper Music Streaming Options

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Apple is in hot water in the EU. On Monday, Europe’s Competition Commission hit the company with a 1.8 billion euro ($1.95 billion) fine, after it concluded that Apple was preventing people from being told that they could pay less for music streaming services. Currently, if you buy a subscription to a music streaming service … Read more

Apple Fined $2 Billion as Europe Sides With Spotify

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Apple has a Spotify problem—and it just cost the iPhone maker a $2 billion fine from the European Commission. For years, the two companies have been at war as the streaming service lured users away from Apple’s iTunes and accused the tech giant of exploiting its dominance to stifle innovation. In their long-running conflict, each … Read more

‘Free isn’t enough’: Apple calls out Spotify for ‘paying nothing’

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EU regulators have just hit Apple with a whopping $2 billion fine over its App Store policies.  And Apple is calling out the company that filed the complaint in the first place: Spotify. On Monday, Apple released a fairly long statement acknowledging a $2 billion fine levied against the iPhone-maker by the European Commission. The … Read more

Apple gets fined nearly $2 billion by the EU for hindering music streaming competition

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LONDON — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps. Apple muzzled streaming services from telling … Read more

Apple hit with more than $1.95 billion EU antitrust fine over music streaming

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Customers at the Apple Music section of the new Apple Inc. store in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, on Monday hit Apple with a 1.8 billion euro ($1.95 billion) antitrust fine for abusing its dominant position on the … Read more

Apple Fined Nearly $2 Billion by European Union

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LONDON — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Tuesday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for breaking the bloc’s competition laws by unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals. Apple banned app developers from “fully informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services outside … Read more

Apple hit with first ever EU fine following Spotify complaint

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Apple has been hit with a fine of €1.84 billion (about $2 billion) by European Union antitrust regulators over its App Store rules, and has been told it cannot stop music services from advertising cheaper subscription deals outside of Apple’s store. News of today’s fine was earlier reported by the Financial Times, and comes ahead … Read more