{"id":1247,"date":"2021-04-22T00:57:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/apple-and-google-hold-data-hostage-and-stifle-competition-senate-told\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T00:57:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:57:28","slug":"apple-and-google-hold-data-hostage-and-stifle-competition-senate-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/apple-and-google-hold-data-hostage-and-stifle-competition-senate-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Google \u2018hold data hostage\u2019 and stifle competition, Senate told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify, Tile and Match aired their grievances against the companies at a Senate anti-trust hearing<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Google \u201chold data hostage\u201d from small apps and force competitors to pay high commissions, stifling their ability to compete, a number of companies said in a US Senate hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing before the Senate anti-trust committee offered a rare opportunity for smaller competitors \u2013 including Spotify, Tile and Match \u2013 to their air grievances against the tech behemoths before lawmakers. Representative for the companies spoke about their experiences within Google and Apple\u2019s app stores, where they claim to be subjected to high fees and copycat behavior.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/21\/apple-google-competition-senate-hearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0078e3672c80521492b073e1dce29c6392f7a203\/0_60_2822_1694\/master\/2822.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=374ae16caed991758fa9c5eb0f094820\" title=\"Apple and Google \u2018hold data hostage\u2019 and stifle competition, Senate told\" \/>Spotify, Tile and Match aired their grievances against the companies at a Senate anti-trust hearing<br \/>\nApple and Google \u201chold data hostage\u201d from small apps and force competitors to pay high commissions, stifling their ability to compete, a number of companies said in a US Senate hearing on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe hearing before the Senate anti-trust committee offered a rare opportunity for smaller competitors \u2013 including Spotify, Tile and Match \u2013 to their air grievances against the tech behemoths before lawmakers. Representative for the companies spoke about their experiences within Google and Apple\u2019s app stores, where they claim to be subjected to high fees and copycat behavior. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify, Tile and Match aired their grievances against the companies at a Senate anti-trust hearing Apple and Google \u201chold data hostage\u201d from small apps and force competitors to pay high commissions, stifling their ability to compete, a number of companies said in a US Senate hearing on Wednesday. The hearing before the Senate anti-trust committee &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/apple-and-google-hold-data-hostage-and-stifle-competition-senate-told\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple and Google \u2018hold data hostage\u2019 and stifle competition, Senate told<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}