The EU outlined which tech giants have to comply with tougher rules while US regulators prepare for a series of new legal battles against Amazon and Google.
The rules, which are enforceable starting in March, outline how technology companies should operate and establish penalties if they don't comply. That includes fines or a possible company break up.
Those cases go to trial starting Tuesday before the US District Court for the District of Columbia, which has dismissed some of the claims.Revenue risks Messaging apps like WhatsApp, for example, must interoperate with other messaging services, meaning that messages must be capable of being sent from WhatsApp to another messaging application.
"They're all going to face risk to their revenue streams for sure if they're on that list," Case Western Reserve University Law School professorThe DMA is enforceable in the EU starting in March. Its rules carve out special restrictions for dominant technology companies that have a market cap of at least 75 billion euros , and earned at least 7.5 billion euros in revenue in each of the past three years.Penalties for violations of the DMA are steep.
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