US tech giants meet EU’s ‘gatekeeper’ threshold

Seven major tech firms could soon be subject to strict new EU rules designed to curb their power.
Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok parent ByteDance, Facebook parent Meta, Microsoft, and Samsung all notified the European Commission this week that they meet its threshold for being so-called ‘gatekeepers’ with the power to pick winners and losers in the Internet economy.
It’s part of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). In force since May, it seeks to safeguard o