Europe’s battle to rein in Big Tech

The EU has also gone after Apple, accusing it of blocking rivals from its contactless iPhone payment system, and fined Microsoft €561mil in 2013 for imposing its browser Internet Explorer on users of Windows 7. — Bloomberg

LUXEMBOURG: The European Union is on a mission to get US tech giants to stop avoiding tax, stifling competition, profiting from news content without paying and serving as platforms for disinformation and hate.

On Dec 20, the European Commission announced that online retail giant Amazon had agreed to make changes to its software to end two EU inquiries into its treatment of third-party sellers on its online marketplace.