European Union lawmakers agree on how to target big tech firms to limit anti-competitive practices

Reuters cite the FT on news that the EU parliament agreed to a deal

  • to apply to firms with a market capitalisation of at least 80 bn EUR and offering at least one internet service, such as an online search
Firms such as
  • Alphabet unit Google
  • Amazon
  • Apple (AAPL.O)
  • Facebook (or Meathead or whatever they’re called now)
  • Microsoft
  • China’s Alibaba Group Holding
  • Netherlands’ Booking
will be scope of the new laws.
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