The Competition Commission of India fines Google $113M over alleged anti-competitive Play Store practices, following a $161.9M fine over Android from last week (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India fines Google $161.9M for requiring Android device makers to pre-install Google Mobile Suite and mandating prominent placement of those apps  —  India’s antitrust watchdog fined Google $161.9 million on Thursday for anti-competitive practices related to Android mobile devices in “multiple markets.”

Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Microsoft accuses China-backed nation state hackers of abusing the country’s vulnerability disclosure requirements to discover and develop zero-day exploits  —  Microsoft on Friday accused state-backed hackers in China of abusing the country’s vulnerability disclosure requirements in an effort to discover and develop zero-day exploits.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
The Epic Games-Apple antitrust battle resumes in appeals court; the US DOJ and state of California have been granted time to explain antitrust legal frameworks  —  Apple’s antitrust battle against Fortnite maker Epic Games is returning to the courtroom after both sides appealed last year’s ruling …

Reuters:
A document shows an Italian administrative court scrapped a €200M fine for Apple and Amazon from 2021 over alleged collusion in selling Apple and Beats products  —  An Italian administrative court scrapped a fine imposed by the country’s antitrust authority on U.S. tech giants Apple …

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
New York and the DOJ urged a federal appeals court to reinstate an antitrust suit brought by 48 state AGs that alleged Meta schemed to “buy or bury” its rivals  —  New York and the Justice Department urged a federal appeals court to reinstate an antitrust suit that dozens …

Samuel Stolton / Politico:
Sources: EU antitrust regulators are preparing to send Meta a “statement of objections” over possibly leveraging its social network to boost Marketplace  —  EU antitrust enforcers are preparing to send Facebook a list of charges over the U.S. firm’s anti-competitive abuses …