The European Union's competition authority is launching an antitrust probe into Apple’s conduct after considering Spotify's competition complaint which alleges that Apple's own music-streaming service gives the iPhone maker an unfair advantage over rivals.
The iPhone maker Apple and the chip maker Qualcomm have recently settled their long-running intellectual-property quarrel over cellular technologies, which includes a payment from the former to the latter, and we now have our first look at the size of the legal agreement.
Apple's recently-announced settlement with Qualcomm didn't come cheap, according to UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri. In a research note released Thursday, Arcuri said the iPhone-maker likely paid between $5 and $6 billion to put a stop to the bevy of legal battles between the two companies.
Apple and Qualcomm have reached a settlement in their ongoing royalty dispute. The two companies issued a press release Tuesday afternoon, stating that they will drop all litigation and enter a six-year licensing agreement, effective as of the beginning of this month.
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) announced today that it's launching an investigation to determine whether Apple is giving preferential treatment to its own apps on App Store after receiving complaints from Dutch news apps developers.
Many Apple Watch reviewers have singled out a lack of third-party watch faces in App Store as one of the most frequent complaints about the wearable device. But rival Samsung, which often brags about the thousands of downloadable watch faces for its own smartwatches, is now being sued over distributing cloned third-party ones in its Galaxy Store.
After losing an Italian lawsuit alleging that Apple failed to properly disclose to customers that the iOS 10.2.1 update introduced performance throttling, the Cupertino company has now published a statement regarding the case on its Italian website.
Following an eavesdropping issue that let FaceTime callers see and hear the person they were calling before they answered, Apple is now facing its first lawsuit over the embarrassing bug.
A U.S. appeals court has upheld a judgement against Apple worth $440 million, reports Reuters. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied the iPhone-maker's request to throw out the 2016 jury verdict, which found it guilty of infringing on patents belonging to VirnetX.
The Weather Company, owned by IBM, is getting sued by the city of Los Angeles over alleged misuse of location data that its popular Weather Channel mobile app was collecting from customers, saying the questionable practice violates California's Unfair Competition Law.
Apple's expectedly pulled the iPhone 7 and 8 models from sale in Germany following a legal spat with chip maker Qualcomm, which proved in court that Apple violated its hardware patent.
After China's iPhone injunction, Qualcomm has recently secured another sales ban, this one in Germany, and now the chip maker has put aside €1.34 billion, or approximately $1.5 billion, in security bonds which are required to enforce German ruling.