[Global Network Technology Reporter Chen Jian] July 16 news, the European Union anti-monopoly agency spokesman said recently that the Japanese Canon Group may be subject to the EU's anti-monopoly investigation and is priced at 2.9 billion U.S. dollar fines. Affected by this news, Canon's stock price also fell by 3%.
Canon is a global leader in the production of imaging and information products. It was founded in 1937. In 2016, Canon won the exclusive bargaining rights for competitive Toshiba Medical. In March 2016, Canon and Toshiba officially announced that Canon acquired Toshiba’s medical equipment division for a total price of 665.5 billion yen ($5.9 billion). Analysts inside the industry have analyzed that Canon’s high-value acquisition of Toshiba Medical intends to have a huge market in China’s future. According to the British investigation company Espicom, China's medical device market will reach US$33 billion by 2017, becoming the second largest market in the world after the United States. Canon’s competitor Olympus contributed nearly half of its medical business sales in Asia Pacific.
On January 4, 2017, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce issued an administrative penalty decision that Canon’s acquisition of Toshiba Medical constitutes a concentration of operators who have not reported illegally in accordance with the law, but has no effect of excluding or restricting competition and decided to impose a fine of 300,000 yuan on Canon. Administrative penalty.
According to the European Union’s anti-monopoly agency, Canon registered with the European Union only after it completed the acquisition of the Toshiba Medical System. This may have violated relevant regulations and formed a monopoly. The company may impose a maximum annual revenue for the company. 10% fine.
Prior to this, the European Union often issued huge fines for enterprises because of monopoly. In 2006, Microsoft was fined 280 million euros for problems with its servers and media players. In 2009, the European Union had issued a fine of 1.06 billion euros to Intel, the US chip maker, setting a record of the “best ticket†at that time. On June 27, 2017, the EU officially issued a 2.44 billion euro (about 2.7 billion US dollars) sky-high fine for Google, due to the anti-trust issues that had been disputed for a long time. The European Commission issued an announcement saying that Google “misused its dominance in the market†and systematically favored its own shopping services in general search results.
The fine for Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is “a fine of 5% of the world’s average daily revenueâ€. According to EU regulations, the penalties are generally based on the company's fiscal year revenue. In the last fiscal year, Google’s total revenue was about 80 billion euros, and 24.4 billion euros was still far below Google’s 2016 total revenue of 5%. However, some analysts believe that this fine may be just the beginning, in the future, Google at least two important services will face threats: Android mobile phone software and AdSense online advertising services.
In 2016, Canon Group's turnover reached 340.148 billion yen (approximately 29.9 billion US dollars), a year-on-year decrease of 10.5%. As Toshiba Medical Systems Co., Ltd. was formally incorporated into its subsidiary in December 2016, its annual turnover is expected to increase year-on-year. 17.6%. According to the maximum annual revenue of 10%, the amount will be 2.9 billion U.S. dollars, which is higher than Google’s fine. If this penalty is dropped, it will break new records.
Earlier, some American media said that whether Microsoft, Intel, or Google are US companies, the EU’s often staring at US companies has ulterior motives. However, the anti-monopoly investigation launched by Canon this time will allow the doubters to close their mouths. It is understood that in addition to Canon, General Electric and the German pharmaceutical giant Merck (Kelvin KGaA) and the American biochemical company Sigma-Aldrich have similar causes and face a monopoly punishment.
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