{"id":6929,"date":"2021-04-22T01:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T01:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2021-04-22T01:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T01:35:51","slug":"apple-and-google-blasted-by-lawmakers-spotify-and-match-over-app-store-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=6929","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Google blasted by lawmakers, Spotify and Match over app store fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostA panel of US senators questioned officials from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google on Wednesday about the dominance of their mobile app stores and whether the companies abuse their power at the expense of smaller competitors.Amy Klobuchar, the top Senate Democrat on antitrust issues, said Apple and Google can use their power to \u201cexclude or suppress apps that compete with their own products\u201d and \u201ccharge excessive fees that affect competition.\u201dApp makers like music streaming service Spotify\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3130534\/apple-and-google-blasted-lawmakers-spotify-and-match-over-app-store\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostA panel of US senators questioned officials from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google on Wednesday about the dominance of their mobile app stores and whether&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}