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Google said today it will allow developers of non-gaming apps on the Play Store to provide alternative billing systems for in-app transactions and purchases for users based in the European…

Google introduces new in-app purchase policy for EEA users

Italy’s competition watchdog has opened an investigation into Google over concerns it has abused a dominant position by hindering data portability rights which are afforded to individuals under the European…

Google faces fresh antitrust probe in Italy after data portability complaint

Epic Games isn’t just fighting the app stores over the right to process its own in-app payments in its popular game Fortnite, it’s also taken up its antitrust legal battle…

Epic Games’ Bandcamp temporarily wins right to use its own payments system on Google Play

Here’s a rare sight: Google has been hit with a €10 million fine by Spain for serious breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which found it…

Spain slaps Google for frustrating the EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’

The European Union’s flagship reform for tackling Big Tech platform power, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), will come into force in early 2023, Commission EVP Margrethe Vestager has said —…

EU’s new rules for Big Tech will come into force in Spring 2023, says Vestager