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World Service,30 Apr 2021,26 mins

Apple charged over 'anti-competitive' app policies

World Business Report

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Apple has been charged with breaking EU competition rules over how it runs its App Store. It relates in part to a complaint brought two years ago by music streaming service Spotify, as Isobel Asher Hamilton of business website, Insider, explains. Also in the programme, we get an update from Brazil which has recorded its highest ever unemployment figures. They were released in the week that the number of deaths from coronavirus in Latin America's largest country passed 400,000 people. We also talk to Josh Fontaine, who runs three bars and restaurants in Paris, as France sets out a timeline for reopening. Plus, men seem increasingly to be seeking cosmetic treatments during the pandemic. The BBC's Ed Butler finds out why, and tries a wrinkle-smoothing procedure for himself. (Picture: The Spotify app shown on an Apple iPhone. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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