2024-02-13
After Gmail, iMessage also magically escapes the DMA. Is the EU really serious on its claims about fair digital competition?
Bloomberg
The EU ends its DMA investigation into iMessage and Microsoft Bing, Edge, and Advertising, deciding not to regulate the services due to their lack of dominance
- Services not dominant enough to face Digital Markets Act … A probe concluded that the services don't hold a dominant enough position …
2021-11-24
It's great to see in the IMCO-approved text of the DMA interoperability requirements for instant messaging, social media, payments and identification. It would have been greater to see them for all platform services. #DMA https://www.europarl.europa.eu/ ...
Bloomberg
EU approves Digital Markets Act measures: mandating social app interoperability, banning ad targeting to minors, and fines up to 20% of global annual sales
2021-11-23
It's great to see in the IMCO-approved text of the DMA interoperability requirements for instant messaging, social media, payments and identification. It would have been greater to see them for all platform services. #DMA https://www.europarl.europa.eu/ ...
Bloomberg
EU lawmakers approve measures in the draft Digital Markets Act, including mandating messaging or social app interoperability and banning ad targeting to minors
- Competing messaging apps may have to be interoperable — Companies would have to stop targeting some ads to minors