BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager mentioned she met with the chief executives of Apple, Alphabet and Qualcomm to debate regulation and competitors coverage compliance, in posts on social media platform X on Friday.
Final week, Vestager’s communications adviser mentioned she would communicate to chief executives of Apple, Alphabet, Broadcom and Nvidia in the US, specializing in European digital regulation together with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and competitors coverage.
Vestager printed updates on X on three conferences.
With Apple’s Tim Prepare dinner, she mentioned she mentioned, amongst different issues, the corporate’s obligation to permit the distribution of its apps outdoors its proprietary AppStore, in addition to ongoing competitors instances just like the one involving its music streaming service Apple Music.
With Sundar Pichai, the top of Alphabet and Google, she mentioned, amongst different issues, design of alternative screens, self-preferencing in relation to the DMA, and likewise Google adtech antitrust case.
Beneath DMA, corporations with greater than 45 million month-to-month lively customers and a 75-billion-euros ($82 billion) market capitalisation are thought-about gatekeepers, and labelled as such, they’re required for instance to make their messaging apps interoperate with rivals and let customers determine which apps to pre-install on their gadgets.
Vestager didn’t specify what was mentioned with Qualcomm’s head Cristiano Amon.
“#chips energy extra than simply our #digital transition. They’re key to our EU #financial #safety. Vital mtg w @cristianoamon @Qualcomm,” she posted.
($1 = 0.9120 euros)
(Reporting by Piotr Lipinski;Enhancing by Elaine Hardcastle)
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