EU Opens Antitrust Investigation into Google, Meta & Apple

The EU has announced investigations into some of the biggest tech firms in the world over uncompetitive practices.

Alphabet, which owns Google, Meta, and Apple are all being looked into for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) introduced in 2022.

If they are found to have broken the rules, the firms can face huge fines of up to 10% of their annual turnover.

The EU antitrust boss announced the investigations on Monday.

It comes three weeks after the EU fined Apple £1.5 billion for breaking competition laws over music streaming.

Meanwhile, the United States accused Apple of monopolising the smartphone market in a landmark lawsuit against the tech giant introduced last week.

In its investigation announced today, the EU says it believes Apple and Alphabet are limiting anti-steering.

This means they are making it difficult for apps to tell users about ways to pay less for their services outside of using app stores’ own payment methods.