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Simon Van Dorpe

@simonvandorpe
13 posts
2025-09-25
🔥Breaking: @EU_Commission opens antitrust investigation into @SAP, Germany's largest (and Europe's second largest) company, for allegedly restricting competition in support services on its popular ERP software. Five years ago, I wrote this story https://www.politico.eu/... [image]
2025-09-25 View on X
Reuters

The EU launches an antitrust probe into SAP over its ERP software maintenance and support services, with a potential fine of ~10% of its annual global sales

The European Commission has opened an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices by Germany's SAP (SAPG.DE) …

2024-11-29
🏳️The European Commission buries the hatchet in its long-standing probes into the tax treatment of Fiat, Amazon and Starbucks in 🇱🇺 and 🇳🇱. Following court defeats in these 3 cases, departing EU Competition chief @vestager acknowledges the tax rulings were not illegal state aid" [image]
2024-11-29 View on X
TechCrunch

The EU ends its long-running probe into whether Amazon received illegal tax benefits worth €250M from Luxembourg, where Amazon's EU HQ is, after court losses

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :

2024-09-11
📢 Big News: European Commission unexpectedly wins its 14.2 billion euro tax case against Apple and Ireland before EU's highest court‼️ [image]
2024-09-11 View on X
CNBC

The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, confirming a 2016 decision; filing: Apple will incur a ~$10B charge in Q4

https://www.bbc.com/...  “The EU Commission accused Ireland of giving Apple illegal tax advantages eight years ago but the Irish government has consistently argued against the need...

2024-09-10
📢 Big News: European Commission unexpectedly wins its 14.2 billion euro tax case against Apple and Ireland before EU's highest court‼️ [image]
2024-09-10 View on X
CNBC

The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, confirming a 2016 decision; filing: Apple will incur a ~$10B charge in Q4

Europe's top court on Tuesday ruled against Apple in the tech giant's 10-year court battle over its tax affairs in Ireland.

2024-03-04
A hefty EU competition fine for Apple, days before new EU gatekeeper rules start applying. Developers paying for the App Store, however, remain doubtful on whether it will really allow for more competition to emerge
2024-03-04 View on X
Financial Times

The EU Commission fines Apple €1.8B for stifling competition from rival music streaming services, the EU's third-largest antitrust fine; Apple plans to appeal

iPhone maker hit by first-ever Brussels fine as competition watchdogs step up scrutiny of Big Tech

2023-07-28
❗️The @EU_Commission is investigating #Microsoft again. Following a complaint by Slack, Competition Commissioner @Vestager today opened a probe into possible tying of @MicrosoftTeams to its popular business software suites Office 365 and Microsoft 365 https://ec.europa.eu/...
2023-07-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The EU opens an antitrust investigation into whether Microsoft abuses its dominant position by bundling Teams with Office, the first investigation in 10+ years

and this time it's because of its Slack rival Ioanna Lykiardopoulou / TNW : Microsoft's Teams and Office bundling may breach EU competition rules Aaron Gregg / Washington Post : E....

2023-07-27
❗️The @EU_Commission is investigating #Microsoft again. Following a complaint by Slack, Competition Commissioner @Vestager today opened a probe into possible tying of @MicrosoftTeams to its popular business software suites Office 365 and Microsoft 365 https://ec.europa.eu/...
2023-07-27 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The EU opens an antitrust investigation into whether Microsoft abuses its dominant position by bundling Teams with Office, the first investigation in 10+ years

Probe marks the first time in a decade that Microsoft has come under formal investigation by Brussels

2022-12-19
📣The @EU_Commission takes an important step in its investigation into @Meta by finding that it illegally tied its Facebook Marketplace to the social network. Commission also preliminarily found that Meta used unfair trading conditions https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-19 View on X
Bloomberg

The European Commission sends Meta a statement of objection for possible antitrust breaches over tying Marketplace to Facebook and imposing unfair trading terms

Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a complaint from European Union antitrust watchdogs over concerns it's unfairly squeezing …

2022-06-12
Apple overnight announced further changes to the mechanism it devised to comply with a 🇳🇱 @AutoriteitCM order to create fair payment conditions for dating apps https://developer.apple.com/ ...
2022-06-12 View on X
The Verge

Dutch ACM says Apple's latest changes to App Store rules, which let developers of dating apps choose payment methods, meet local and EU competition requirements

It's still unhappy about the carve-out for dating apps in the Netherlands  —  Apple announced on Friday that it once again updated …

Reaction of Dutch competition chief Martijn Snoep suggests case is now closed for the @AutoriteitCM. “We are glad that Apple has finally brought its conditions in line with European and Dutch competition rules,” Snoep said. https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-12 View on X
The Verge

Dutch ACM says Apple's latest changes to App Store rules, which let developers of dating apps choose payment methods, meet local and EU competition requirements

It's still unhappy about the carve-out for dating apps in the Netherlands  —  Apple announced on Friday that it once again updated …

2022-01-25
That was quick (take note @EU_Commission) Barely one week after starting to investigate Apple's compliance with its order, the @AutoriteitCM fines the company a first €5 million, for its failure to adjust App Store conditions https://www.acm.nl/... https://pro.politico.eu/...
2022-01-25 View on X
MacRumors

The Netherlands fines Apple €5M, saying Apple's IAP changes “failed to satisfy the requirements”; the fine rises €5M/week to €50M until Apple complies

2021-11-29
The issues raised in 🇩🇪 (under new ex-ante regime in art 19a) are broader, and include how Microsoft allegedly also pushes other products, including Teams (similar to what Slack complained about)
2021-11-29 View on X
ZDNet

Nextcloud and ~30 other EU companies file an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft for bundling OneDrive and Teams with Windows

Nextcloud and almost 30 other European companies have filed a complaint about Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior with its OneDrive cloud storage offering.Source:NextcloudandNext...

2021-11-11
Huge win for Margrethe Vestager, as the EU General Court confirmed her €2.4B fine on Google's shopping practices, strengthening her antitrust approach to Big Tech https://www.politico.eu/...
2021-11-11 View on X
Bloomberg

UK's Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit against Google that sought $4B for allegedly tracking iOS Safari users without their consent between 2011 and 2012

Ellen Milligan / Bloomberg :