The European Union, has proposed in recent years to attack the large American companies that roam freely both in the telephony market, as on the Internet, in operating systems, in computers ... It is not that it always goes against the American companies, but cso are the companies that dominate this market almost everywhere in the world.
Microsoft a few years ago earned a significant fine for including Internet Explorer as standard with Windows 98, Google has also been fined more than 2.000 million dollars for dominant position and manipulating the search results of its search engine to offer its interests first. , Qualcomm has seen how the European Union has fined it 1.000 million euros for try to end the competition ...
Last December, Apple confirmed the purchase of Shazam, a purchase at first did not seem to offer any problem for the company, but we see how the European Union has once again launched the investigation machinery, at the request of the requests made by countries such as Austria, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden among others, a request that is pending approval to start.
In this way, it will be the European Union's competition regulatory body that will have to do whether this purchase has a negative effect on competition in Europe within the European Economic Area. The Wall Street Journal, who has published this information and has tried to contact Apple for more information about it, but as is usual in most cases, has received a silence in response.
The Wall Street Journal has not been able to have more information about this petition, so we do not know on which requests can be based that have been made by countries that do not see with good eyes that Apple has kept Shazam and its algorithm to identify audio clips.
Yes, just like the paripe they did when the three telecommunications marys in our country decided to take on the competition, with the results we see these days.