Sales of Apple’s new iPhone 17 series smartphones outpaced last year’s iPhone 16 in the world’s two largest markets. Current models have attracted 14 percent more interest in the U.S. and China, according to data released today by Counterpoint Research. Counterpoint Research’s report touches on the first 10 days after the launch of the iPhone … Read more
After Apple, Google also renews its criticism of the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA). Oliver Bethell, who is responsible for antitrust law issues at the search engine giant, raises the alarm: According to him, the DMA, which should actually ensure fair competition, is currently causing considerable and unintentional damage to European users and small companies. … Read more
Apple accommodates the EU Commission and leads Further adjustments in the European App Store through to meet the Digital Markets Act (DMA). This had already emerged, since the group would otherwise have threatened high additional punishments. New tariffs and, above all, opportunities are coming up to developers to market their applications via the Apple software … Read more
There is uncertainty on global stock markets due to the announced mass tariffs in the United States. Investors sell their shares, which results in deep red numbers. The S&P 500 index, consisting of the 500 largest US companies, has given up by 4 percent since Thursday, and 12 percent since the beginning of the year. … Read more
Formally, the tax dispute did not sit on the dock, but Ireland. After all, the government in Dublin had granted the US group the favorable tax conditions. Vestager calculated that from 2004 to 2014 Apple had to pay extremely low effective tax rates of around 0.005 percent for some of the wins abroad. This practice … Read more