By Aaron Nicodemus2024-11-14T21:07:00
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been fined nearly 798 million euros (U.S. $841 million) by the European Commission to resolve the agency’s long-running investigation into alleged “abusive practices” by Facebook Marketplace.
Meta promised to appeal the fine.
The EC claimed that Meta abused its dominant positions in both the social media market and the online classified ads market in the European Union’s 27-member countries. Facebook did so by tying its online classified ads for Facebook Marketplace to Facebook, whether Facebook users wanted them or not. The arrangement “gives Facebook Marketplace a substantial distribution advantage which competitors cannot match,” the EC said Wednesday in a press release.
2025-04-18T14:01:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
A federal judge has ruled that Google “willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts” in the advertising technology industry, the latest antitrust setback in what could become a string of losses for tech companies.
2024-10-08T13:03:00Z By Shelby Brown
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act is forcing many Big Tech companies to postpone the launch of artificial intelligence-powered features, like Apple Intelligence, over user privacy and data security concerns.
2024-07-15T20:36:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The European Commission informed X, formerly Twitter, that it may be the first company found to be in violation of the European Union’s Digital Services Act in areas “linked to dark patterns, advertising transparency, and data access for researchers.”
2025-08-08T21:06:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Two major health insurance brokers will pay a combined $145 million to resolve Federal Trade Commission allegations that they misled millions of consumers and mishandled personal data, the agency announced Thursday.
2025-08-07T19:38:00Z By Adrianne Appel
The owners of cryptocurrency mixing service Samourai Wallet pleaded guilty to transmitting more than $200 million in criminal transactions, according to the Department of Justice.
2025-08-07T15:59:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Late payers will soon face much larger fines in the U.K. in what is promised to be the “toughest crackdown on late payments in a generation.” The scheme is intended to save the 38 businesses a day that go bust because of poor payment practices.
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