Tag: digital regulation
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Best of both worlds: Big Tech regulation down under
Australia was an early pioneer of digital markets analysis and regulation, having investigated these issues since 2017. The ACCC has highlighted concerns about competition in digital markets in nine excellent reports during its 5-year Digital Platform Services Inquiry, which concludes in March 2025. In September 2022, the fifth report set out the concrete recommendations for…
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The DMA is coming. Here’s what it will mean for mobile gaming
The App Store and Play Store are huge profit generators for Apple and Google. As explained by Judge Gonzalez Rogers in her Epic v Apple judgment of September 2021, gaming apps account for approximately 70% of all App Store revenues. According to some, this means that Apple makes more money from games than Microsoft, Sony,…
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UK Digital Regulation: time to get into the detail
The UK government has published its White Paper on the new regulatory regime for firms with Strategic Market Status (SMS), which is very likely to capture firms such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. The new legislation is therefore now officially government policy. At first glance, it will be a sigh of relief for the…