de Silva (pic) said she’s set her sights on Apple Inc and Facebook Inc’s forays into online payments. She’s also wary of the power Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google could gain via their digital assistants. — AFP
France’s Isabelle de Silva may be about to become Europe’s most feared antitrust regulator as Margrethe Vestager’s term as European Union competition commissioner winds down.
De Silva, 49, was picked to head France’s antitrust arm in 2016 and immediately grabbed headlines fining firms owned by billionaire Patrick Drahi. Since then her achievements have been somewhat overshadowed by those of her EU counterpart who doled out massive penalties to the likes of Google.
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