On Thursday 6 September, the European Commission authorised the planned acquisition of the app Shazam by Apple under the European competition rules (see EUROPE 12008).
“After thoroughly analysing Shazam's user and music data, we found that their acquisition by Apple would not reduce competition in the digital music streaming market”, said the Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, in a press release.
Apple operates Apple Music, the second-largest music streaming service in...