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McDonald's loses trademark for EU? What does this mean? McDonald's Chicken Big Mac, which contains two сhicken cutlets, cheese, lettuce, onions, pickled cucumbers and the special Big Mac sauce, is more widely available outside the EU.
06 Jun, 2024, 01.27 AM ISTEU court backs Google, Amazon, Airbnb in Italian rule dispute The Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union said, "A member state may not impose additional obligations on an online service provider established in another member state."
30 May, 2024, 02.05 PM ISTApple fights €1.8 billion EU antitrust fine for curbs on Spotify The iPhone maker has filed a suit at the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg to topple the March decision, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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EU court takes Russian billionaires Fridman, Aven off sanctions list The European Union Court of Justice has removed Russian billionaires Fridman and Aven from sanctions list citing lack of justification. Court stated ties to Putin was possible but no evidence of supporting anti-Ukraine actions. A separate appeal lod...
10 Apr, 2024, 02.42 PM ISTAmazon loses court fight to suspend EU tech rules' ad clause Under the Digital Services Act (DSA) which kicked in last year, Amazon was designated as a very large online platform subject to tough rules to tackle illegal and harmful content on its platform.
28 Mar, 2024, 01.01 PM ISTAmazon loses court fight to suspend EU's tech ad clause The company subsequently challenged a DSA requirement to make publicly available a repository containing detailed information on its online advertising and also asked for an interim measure until the court rules on the case. A lower tribunal in Sept...
28 Mar, 2024, 12.03 AM ISTCourt says EU must pay a fraction of legal fees sought by Qualcomm Qualcomm submitted its legal bill to the European Commission in 2022 after the General Court backed the U.S. group's fight against a 997 million euro EU antitrust fine issued in 2018 and ordered the regulator to pay Qualcomm's legal costs.
04 Mar, 2024, 04.00 PM ISTCourt says EU must pay a fraction of legal fees sought by Qualcomm The Luxembourg-based General Court said the number of hours worked and hourly rates used in Qualcomm's claim was "manifestly excessive". Qualcomm submitted its legal bill to the European Commission in 2022 after the General Court backed the U.S. gro...
03 Mar, 2024, 07.53 AM ISTEU court rejects TikTok bid to suspend tough curbs Social media TikTok on Friday lost a court bid to suspend strict new EU rules designating it a market "gatekeeper", pending a final ruling on the video-sharing app's legal challenge to the law. TikTok filed a legal challenge against its designation ...
10 Feb, 2024, 11.28 AM ISTEU court adviser sides with Google, Amazon in Italian rule spat Google, Amazon and Airbnb subsequently challenged the rule in an Italian court, saying it was contrary to EU legislation which says online service providers are only subject to the rules of the country where they are established, while countries whe...
11 Jan, 2024, 04.20 PM ISTEU top court rejects 250 million EU tax order to Amazon Europe's top court on Thursday scrapped an EU order to Amazon to pay 250 million euros ($270 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg, part of EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager's crackdown against sweetheart deals between multinationals and EU count...
14 Dec, 2023, 02.38 PM ISTTikTok asks EU court to suspend EU gatekeeper label until its ruling The Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires TikTok and other designated gatekeepers Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft to make their messaging apps interoperate with rivals and let users decide which apps to pre-install on the...
02 Dec, 2023, 10.56 AM ISTAmazon wins court backing for now against EU tech rules' ad clause The US online retailer took its grievance to Europe's second highest court, the Luxembourg-based General Court, in July after EU antitrust regulators in April designated it as a VLOP along with 18 other platforms and search engines.
28 Sep, 2023, 06.28 PM ISTMeta loses as top EU court backs antitrust regulators over privacy breach checks Antitrust authorities overseeing firms such as Facebook owner Meta Platforms are entitled to also assess privacy breaches, Europe's top court ruled on Tuesday, potentially handing them more leeway in Big Tech probes.
04 Jul, 2023, 05.03 PM ISTGerman antitrust watchdog can add privacy breaches to Meta probe, EU court says The case before the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerns a 2019 German cartel office order to Meta to stop collecting users' data without their consent as such a practice constituted an abuse of its market power.
04 Jul, 2023, 02.14 PM ISTCourt rejects Meta's challenge against EU antitrust requests for information On May 22, Meta was fined $1.3 billion by the European Union and given a deadline to stop shipping users’ data to the US after regulators said it failed to protect personal information from the prying eyes of American security services.
24 May, 2023, 01.49 PM ISTSilver Point gets NCLT nod to take over IVRCL Chengapalli Tollways The successful bidder has proposed to pay over ₹1,464 crore to acquire the company through an insolvency process, against the total admitted liabilities of ₹1,513 crore.
07 May, 2023, 10.56 AM ISTMeta can be sued in Kenya over alleged unlawful redundancies, rules court Judge Matthews Nduma issued an interim injunction against Meta and Sama preventing them from terminating the moderators' contracts, pending a judgment on the legality of their redundancy.
20 Apr, 2023, 07.19 PM ISTIntel seeks $624 million in interest from EU after antitrust fine win Intel in its application to the Luxembourg-based General Court said the Commission, which acts as the competition watchdog in the 27-country European Union, had refused to reimburse the company the default interest.
20 Jun, 2022, 08.27 PM ISTAmazon wins $303 million tax case in European Union Europe's second-top court has annulled an EU order to Amazon to pay about €250 million in back taxes to Luxembourg, part of an EU crackdown against unfair tax deals between multinationals and European Union countries.
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