Italy's competition watchdog opens two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard over sales practices the regulator calls “misleading and aggressive”
Italy's competition watchdog on Friday announced investigations into Microsoft's (MSFT.O) Activision Blizzard unit over allegedly …
Italy's antitrust authority says it reduced the record fine imposed on Amazon in 2021, from €1.13B to €752M, after a recalculation
Italy's antitrust authority says it reduced the record fine imposed on Amazon in 2021, from €1.13B to €752M, after a recalculation
Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials
Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service …
Italy's competition watchdog fines Apple €98.6M, saying the company's ATT rules are “disproportionate” and “harmful” to app developers and advertisers
The App Tracking Transparency rules are “disproportionate,” and “harmful” to app developers and advertisers. Ultimately, it found that Apple abused its dominant position in the EU market. — I've sa...
Italy's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies
Gianluca Semeraro / Reuters :
Sources: Meta, X, and LinkedIn appeal an unprecedented ~€1.04B VAT claim by Italy, which is seeking €887.6M from Meta, €12.5M from X, and ~€140M from LinkedIn
Emilio Parodi / Reuters :
Italy accuses Amazon of evading €1.2B in VAT payments; sources: the claim is linked to the sale of goods from China and other non-EU countries from 2019 to 2021
Financial Times :
Italy's data regulator fines OpenAI €15M after its probe found that the startup processed users' personal data to train ChatGPT without an adequate legal basis
Italy's data protection agency said on Friday it fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI 15 million euros ($15.58 million) …
Italy, Europol, and others say they dismantled a pirate streaming service that redistributed IPTV, Sky, DAZN, and more to 22M+ users, making €250M+ per month
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide …