Kelkoo Group was a hugely successful comparison-shopping service that was taken to a cliff edge by Google’s self-preferencing behaviour. We have been lobbying for fundamental change and fairness in global digital markets since 2011 and are one of the lead complainants in the Google Shopping case in Europe. We are in regular dialogue with global regulators who are keen to restore fair and contestable digital markets.
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🚨 The Turkish Competition Authority fines Google for non-compliance with local search service regulations. Google faces daily fines of 0.05% of its 2023 revenue until it meets obligations regarding hotel inquiries and fair competition.
Turkish competition board fines Google over failure to comply with regulation
The Turkish competition authority said on Thursday that it decided to fine Google over its failure to fulfil oblig...
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📊New research by Wentian Zhang shows that reduced #antitrusten forcement strongly decreases venture capital investment in startups. Strong antitrust enforcement is essential to protect startups from large firms' anti-competitive practices. @ProMarket_org
Lower Antitrust Enforcement Reduces Venture Capital Investment and Startup Innovation - ProMarket
In new research, Wentian Zhang finds that a reduction in antitrust enforcement causes venture capitalists to significa...
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📢 @bookingcom has been designated a gatekeeper under the EU's #DMA. The platform now faces strict regulations to ensure market fairness, with penalties for non-compliance that could reach up to 10% of annual revenue.
Commission designates Booking as a gatekeeper and opens a market investigation into X
The European Commission has today designated under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Booking as a gatekeeper for its ...
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Cani Fernández of Spain's @CNMC_ES announces strict oversight to ensure #BigTechcompliance to the DMA. "These companies achieved a dominant position in digital markets", she said at the IEF Annual Members' Meeting.
La CNMC extremará la vigilancia sobre los abusos de los gigantes tecnológicos
Cani Fernández alerta que el regulador velará para que Google, Meta, Microsoft o Apple cumplan las nuevas leyes ...
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🌍 Following the EU's lead with the #DMA, Turkey is drafting new digital competition laws aimed at tech giants. The proposed rules closely mirror the DMA, but with even stricter provisions against practices like #selfpreferencing. More on @CSIS 👇
Turkey Considering New Digital Competition Legislation | CSIS
The CSIS Scholl Chair in International Business investigates the implications of Turkey’s pending draft legislation on digital competition.
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🚨 Court documents reveal Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to secure its default search engine status on Safari, highlighting DOJ #antitrust concerns. For @KelkooPolicy this underscores once again the urgency to enforce fair competition laws.
Google’s payments to Apple reached $20 billion in 2022, antitrust court documents show
(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc. paid Apple Inc. $20 billion in 2022 for Google to be the default search engine in ...
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David Cicilline’s exit interview from Congress
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New UK Tech Bill is silver bullet to restore consumer choice, lower prices and competition
Rich Stables, CEO of Kelkoo Group comments: “Kelkoo Group was a pioneer in comparison shopping which gave consumers access to the best online shopping deals. But since Google was allowed a stranglehold on digital markets by ranking or self-preferencing its own...
The Digital Markets Act; A lasting legacy or missed opportunity?
For all of the promises of the DMA, it is far from being a done deal. The European Commission is firing on all cylinders but it will need resolve and stamina to stay the course. And a lot of water will pass under the bridge until we see effective enforcement. Read...
Big Tech’s catalogue of abuse
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Dark Patterns – When Nudge Becomes Sludge
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DMA; Google’s trade-offs: business model or consumer choice, surely?
So, after first presenting some very general ideas for DMA compliance in December 2022, Google has now finally begun testing changes on general search pages (supposedly) to comply with the ban on self-preferencing. Google previewed the changes at a workshop in...
Antitrust and competition in global digital markets in 2023: What lessons have been learnt?
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