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Title: News: EU hits Qualcomm with $1.2B fine over paying Apple to freeze out competitors
Post by: HCK on January 25, 2018, 04:05:25 pm
News: EU hits Qualcomm with $1.2B fine over paying Apple to freeze out competitors

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               While the European Union still has its own unfinished business with Apple, the EU has sided with the company in its fight with Qualcomm, 9to5Mac reports. The EU fined Qualcomm $1.2 billion after ruling that the company’s rebate payments to Apple to freeze out other chip makers unfairly stifled competition. While the EU claims Apple’s deal with Qualcomm was anti-competitive, Apple wasn’t the subject of any further fines since the…

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