EU reassessing fines against Google, Apple and other US tech firms because of Trump 2.0
1 day, 4 hours ago

EU reassessing fines against Google, Apple and other US tech firms because of Trump 2.0

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The EU has led the way in regulating Big Tech, but the delay in these rulings highlights how much of the process is shaped by politics. Some of the key players who went after Big Tech, are nearing the end of their terms, with some seeking re-election As the US prepares for potential political changes, Big Tech companies are positioning themselves to benefit from a friendlier regulatory environment. The EU, led by competition chief Margrethe Vestager, has been a driving force in regulating Big Tech for the past decade, particularly with its Digital Markets Act. The politics of regulation The EU has led the way in regulating Big Tech, but the delay in these rulings highlights how much of the process is shaped by politics.

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UK competition watchdog prepares to investigate tech giants under new rulebook
1 week, 1 day ago

UK competition watchdog prepares to investigate tech giants under new rulebook

Live Mint  

The U.K. competition regulator said it would open investigations into at least three types of tech platforms at the start of this year to work out which tech giants need to obey a new law governing the digital economy. The DMCC gives the U.K. regulator new powers to rein in Big Tech companies and level the playing field for companies …

Europe on Collision Course with Trump on Big Tech Crackdown
1 month, 1 week ago

Europe on Collision Course with Trump on Big Tech Crackdown

Live Mint  

The European Union’s multiyear clampdown on some of the largest American companies is set to force President-elect Donald Trump to decide which bothers him more: Europe or Big Tech. In the coming months, Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc., and the X platform owned by Trump confidant Elon Musk, could face billions in fines or even mandatory divestment …

Antitrust enforcers prepare final blitz against Big Tech
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Antitrust enforcers prepare final blitz against Big Tech

Live Mint  

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration’s top antitrust officials plan to take more shots at the tech industry before leaving office, in a race to cap four years of aggressive enforcement. “The government putting its thumb on the scale in these ways would harm consumers, developers and American technological leadership," said Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs. The department’s antitrust division …

Europe’s Big Tech Hawks Brace for a Post-Biden Future
55 years ago

Europe’s Big Tech Hawks Brace for a Post-Biden Future

Wired  

For Europe, the outcome of next week’s US election will have profound consequences. In the Biden era, the EU found an ally in its ambitions to rein in big tech, says Max von Thun, director of Europe and transatlantic partnerships at the Open Markets Institute. Trump has gestured, vaguely, that “something” should be done about Google, to make the company …

Google and Apple lose their court fights against the EU and owe billions in fines and taxes
4 months ago

Google and Apple lose their court fights against the EU and owe billions in fines and taxes

The Hindu  

Google lost its last bid to overturn a European Union antitrust penalty, after the bloc's top court ruled against it Tuesday in a case that came with a whopping fine and helped jumpstart an era of intensifying scrutiny for Big Tech companies. The European Union’s top court rejected Google's appeal against the 2.4 billion euro penalty from the European Commission, …

Google and Apple lose their court fights against the EU and owe billions in fines and taxes
4 months ago

Google and Apple lose their court fights against the EU and owe billions in fines and taxes

LA Times  

In this photo from 2007, exhibitors work on laptop computers in front of an illuminated sign of the Google logo at the industrial fair Hannover Messe in Hanover, Germany. Google lost its last bid to overturn a European Union antitrust penalty after the bloc’s top court ruled against it Tuesday in a case that came with a whopping fine and …

Competition watchdog closes Apple and Google probes ahead of rules shake-up
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Competition watchdog closes Apple and Google probes ahead of rules shake-up

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The UK’s competition watchdog has …

European Union court says TikTok owner can’t avoid bloc’s law cracking down on digital giants
5 months, 4 weeks ago

European Union court says TikTok owner can’t avoid bloc’s law cracking down on digital giants

Associated Press  

LONDON — TikTok owner ByteDance can’t avoid the bloc’s crackdown on digital giants, a European Union court said Wednesday in a decision that found the video sharing platform falls under a new law that also covers Apple, Google and Microsoft. The EU’s General Court rejected ByteDance’s legal challenge against being classed as an online “gatekeeper” that has to comply with …

EU charges Meta in latest hit on Big Tech
6 months, 2 weeks ago

EU charges Meta in latest hit on Big Tech

Al Jazeera  

The European Commission has charged Meta with breaching the EU’s Digital Markets Act via its new “pay or consent” advertising model. “We want to empower citizens to be able to take control over their own data and choose a less personalised ads experience,” EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. Series of probes The charge against Meta is …

European Union’s competition boss signals fresh AI scrutiny for Microsoft-OpenAI deal and Google
6 months, 2 weeks ago

European Union’s competition boss signals fresh AI scrutiny for Microsoft-OpenAI deal and Google

The Hindu  

The European Union is escalating its scrutiny of the artificial intelligence industry, including taking a fresh look into Microsoft's multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI, a top EU official said Friday. The European Commission, the bloc's executive arm, started reviewing the deal last year to see whether it broke EU merger rules but dropped it after concluding Microsoft hadn't gained control of …

Why Are Big Tech Companies Jittery About Digital Competition Bill? How Different It Is From The EU Law
8 months ago

Why Are Big Tech Companies Jittery About Digital Competition Bill? How Different It Is From The EU Law

News 18  

Big tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon will come under scrutiny as the Digital Competition Bill takes shape, which would stop them from self-preferencing their own services. The draft law, called the Digital Competition Bill, 2024, has provisions to set presumptive norms to curb anti-competitive practices before they actually take place, and promises to impose heavy penalties for …

Why is Rishi shying away from a battle with Big Tech?
8 months, 1 week ago

Why is Rishi shying away from a battle with Big Tech?

The Independent  

It was a defining moment of Rishi Sunak’s reign when he sat, being filmed, interviewing Elon Musk. “And there is a concern that this opens up, effectively, a sort of full merits appeal basis, something that we’ve been – in all the debates on this bill going through both Houses – keen to avoid.” Labour’s Alex Davies-Jones said the government …

EU opens competition investigations into Apple, Google and Meta
9 months, 3 weeks ago

EU opens competition investigations into Apple, Google and Meta

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Apple, Google parent firm Alphabet, and Meta – the …

EU opens probe into Apple, Google and Meta aiming to reign in Big Tech: What's happening
9 months, 3 weeks ago

EU opens probe into Apple, Google and Meta aiming to reign in Big Tech: What's happening

Hindustan Times  

EU antitrust regulators opened their first investigations under the Digital Markets Act into Apple, Alphabet's Google and Meta Platforms claiming potential breaches of landmark EU tech rules. The EU executive said in a statement as per news agency Reuters, “The Commission suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under …

Apple, Google, Meta targeted under new European law meant to prevent cornering of digital markets
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Apple, Google, Meta targeted under new European law meant to prevent cornering of digital markets

Associated Press  

LONDON — European Union regulators opened investigations into Apple, Google and Meta on Monday, the first cases under a sweeping new law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm, said it was investigating the companies for “non-compliance” with the Digital Markets Act. The Digital Markets Act that took full …

Antitrust crackdown looms over Big Tech: How Apple, Google are likely staring at break-up orders in US and EU
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Antitrust crackdown looms over Big Tech: How Apple, Google are likely staring at break-up orders in US and EU

Live Mint  

Antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are tightening their grip on Big Tech, raising the spectre of potential break-up orders for industry titans such as Apple and Alphabet's Google, as per a Reuters report. Regulators have accused companies like Apple and Google of erecting insurmountable barriers around their products, creating what is termed as "walled gardens," thus hindering …

Apple, Google, Meta targeted under new European law to prevent cornering of digital markets
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Apple, Google, Meta targeted under new European law to prevent cornering of digital markets

LA Times  

Margrethe Vestager, European commissioner for Europe Fit for the Digital Age, speaks during a media conference regarding the Digital Markets Act at EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday. European Union regulators opened investigations into Apple, Google and Meta on Monday, the first cases under a sweeping new law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets. The European …

EU to investigate Apple, Google, Meta under new digital law
9 months, 3 weeks ago

EU to investigate Apple, Google, Meta under new digital law

Al Jazeera  

Antitrust regulators will probe the Big Tech companies for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act. European Union regulators have opened investigations into Apple, Alphabet’s Google and Meta, in the first cases under a sweeping digital law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive, said on Monday that it was …

Apple Comments About Its Focus On EU's Digital Markets Act Amid Criticism
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Apple Comments About Its Focus On EU's Digital Markets Act Amid Criticism

News 18  

BRUSSELS: Apple on Monday fended off criticism that it has not done enough to open up its closed eco-system as required under the European Union's Digital Markets Act, saying it has complied with the landmark legislation. The DMA sets out a list of obligations and prohibitions for Apple, Alphabet's Google, Amazon, TikTok owner ByteDance, Meta Platforms and Microsoft which the …

Europe Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech
55 years ago

Europe Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech

Wired  

Citizens of the European Union live in an internet built and ruled by foreign powers. For years, Europe’s wanna-be Big Tech rivals, like Sweden’s Spotify or Switzerland’s ProtonMail, have claimed that companies like Google, Meta, and Apple unfairly limit their ability to reach potential users, through tactics like preinstalling Gmail on new Android phones or Apple’s strict rules for the …

Europe’s Digital Markets Act is forcing tech giants to make changes. Here’s what that will look like
10 months, 1 week ago

Europe’s Digital Markets Act is forcing tech giants to make changes. Here’s what that will look like

Associated Press  

LONDON — Europeans scrolling their phones and computers this week will get new choices for default browsers and search engines, where to download iPhone apps and how their personal online data is used. They’re part of changes required under the Digital Markets Act, a set of European Union regulations that six tech companies classed as “gatekeepers” — Amazon, Apple, Google …

EU Antitrust Chief Meets Apple And Google CEO's: Here's What They Discussed
1 year ago

EU Antitrust Chief Meets Apple And Google CEO's: Here's What They Discussed

News 18  

BRUSSELS: The EU's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said she met with the chief executives of Apple, Alphabet and Qualcomm to discuss regulation and competition policy compliance, in posts on social media platform X on Friday. Last week, Vestager's communications adviser said she would speak to chief executives of Apple, Alphabet, Broadcom and Nvidia in the United States, focusing on European …

Big Tech's core businesses face overhaul under EU tech rules
1 year, 4 months ago

Big Tech's core businesses face overhaul under EU tech rules

The Hindu  

The EU Commission on Wednesday designated 22 services of six major tech companies as "gatekeepers" of online services providing messaging to video sharing in its latest crackdown on Big Tech. Under the DMA, which came into force in November, companies with more than 45 million monthly active users and a market capitalisation of 75 billion euros are considered gatekeepers providing …

EU targets Apple, Amazon, Meta and other Big Tech in next phase of digital crackdown
1 year, 4 months ago

EU targets Apple, Amazon, Meta and other Big Tech in next phase of digital crackdown

Associated Press  

LONDON — Six Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft faced fresh pressure Wednesday from the European Union, which moved to counter their digital dominance with far-reaching rules aimed at giving users more choices and making competition fairer. Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance also were classified as online “gatekeepers” subject to the strictest requirements …

EU regulators order Google to break up digital ad business over competition concerns
1 year, 7 months ago

EU regulators order Google to break up digital ad business over competition concerns

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy European Union antitrust regulators took …

Europe has led the global charge against big tech. But does it need a new approach?
1 year, 7 months ago

Europe has led the global charge against big tech. But does it need a new approach?

Live Mint  

In the past couple of decades, Europe and America have taken different paths in how they regulate large firms. Perhaps surprisingly, Europe took on even the mighty tech giants, imposing multi-billion-euro fines on the likes of Google and, at times, forcing changes to tech business models. Ms Vestager’s regulatory method is premised on the idea that consumer tech markets tend …

Britain to take on Big Tech antitrust issues with new legal powers
1 year, 8 months ago

Britain to take on Big Tech antitrust issues with new legal powers

The Hindu  

Britain said on Tuesday it would introduce a new law to rein in the power that big tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon are able to wield to stifle competition in digital markets. Britain's antitrust watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority, set up a dedicated Digital Markets Unit two years ago, armed with the expertise to regulate new …

Britain to take on Google, Amazon and Facebook with new legal powers
1 year, 8 months ago

Britain to take on Google, Amazon and Facebook with new legal powers

Live Mint  

Britain said on Tuesday it would introduce a new law to rein in the power that big tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon are able to wield to stifle competition in digital markets. Britain's antitrust watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority, set up a dedicated Digital Markets Unit two years ago, armed with the expertise to regulate new …

Big Tech And Its Congressional Allies Kill Most — But Not All — Antitrust Legislation
2 years ago

Big Tech And Its Congressional Allies Kill Most — But Not All — Antitrust Legislation

Huff Post  

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been the target of pressure from Big Tech companies, which have spent massive sums on lobbying during the current Congress. While a pair of smaller provisions in the omnibus will help antitrust advocates take on the nation’s largest tech companies in the future, the death of the Open App Markets Act and the American …

Explained | What is the E.U. Digital Markets Act?
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained | What is the E.U. Digital Markets Act?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Digital Markets Act entered into force in the European Union on November 1, seven months after it was agreed for by the European Parliament in March this year. In addition to managing a ‘core platform service’, a company must have accrued an annual turnover of at least €7.5 billion in each of the last three …

Europe Prepares to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
2 years, 2 months ago

Europe Prepares to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet

Wired  

Next week, a law takes effect that will change the internet forever—and make it much more difficult to be a tech giant. Last month, he became director of a new EU office in San Francisco, established in part to explain the law’s consequences to Big Tech companies. “If you have an iPhone, you should be able to download apps not …

Regulating Big Tech gets a push
2 years, 2 months ago

Regulating Big Tech gets a push

Hindustan Times  

It was 16 years ago, in 2006, when the Oxford and Webster dictionaries recognised google as a verb to describe the act of looking something up on the internet. Through this period of boom, Google has not just retained its position as the gateway to the internet, but also entrenched it and expanded into new domains of personal digital devices …

Scores of Google rivals want EU tech law used in antitrust case - letter
2 years, 2 months ago

Scores of Google rivals want EU tech law used in antitrust case - letter

The Hindu  

More than 40 European rivals to Google's shopping service urged EU antitrust regulators on Monday to use newly adopted tech rules to ensure the Alphabet unit complies with a 2017 EU order to allow more competition on its search page. The European Commission fined Google 2.4 billion euros five years ago and told the firm to stop favouring its shopping …

EU lawmakers pass landmark tech rules, but enforcement a worry
2 years, 6 months ago

EU lawmakers pass landmark tech rules, but enforcement a worry

The Hindu  

EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in the power of tech giants such as Alphabet unit Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, but enforcing them could be an issue due to regulators' limited resources. In addition to the rules known as the Digital Markets Act, lawmakers also approved the Digital Services Act, which …

EU Passes New Law, Demands Better Support From Google, Facebook To Police Content
2 years, 6 months ago

EU Passes New Law, Demands Better Support From Google, Facebook To Police Content

News 18  

BRUSSELS: EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in the power of tech giants such as Alphabet unit Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, but enforcing them could be an issue due to regulators' limited resources. In addition to the rules known as the Digital Markets Act, lawmakers also approved the Digital Services Act, …

EU antitrust chief calls for global approach towards tech giants
2 years, 8 months ago

EU antitrust chief calls for global approach towards tech giants

The Hindu  

Europe's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, the architect of landmark rules to curb the power of U.S. tech giants, called on Thursday for a global approach towards Big Tech to prevent companies taking advantage of enforcement gaps. Vestager, who has handed out billions of euros in fines to Alphabet's Google and launched investigations into Apple, Amazon and Meta Platform's Facebook, said …

EU Has New Laws For Tech Giants: Google, Meta, Amazon And More To Face These New Regulations In Europe
2 years, 8 months ago

EU Has New Laws For Tech Giants: Google, Meta, Amazon And More To Face These New Regulations In Europe

News 18  

The European Union has a new legislation to regulate tech giants. On Saturday, April 23, the Union agreed on the terms of the Digital Services Act, which will force tech giants to take responsibility to content that appears on their platforms. “The DSA will upgrade the ground-rules for all online services in the EU," the European Commission President Ursula Von …

EU law targets Big Tech over hate speech, disinformation
2 years, 8 months ago

EU law targets Big Tech over hate speech, disinformation

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta will have to police their platforms more strictly to better protect European users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content under landmark EU legislation approved early Saturday. “With the DSA, the time of big online platforms behaving like they are ‘too big to care’ is coming to …

EU law targets Big Tech over hate speech, disinformation
2 years, 8 months ago

EU law targets Big Tech over hate speech, disinformation

NPR  

EU law targets Big Tech over hate speech, disinformation Enlarge this image toggle caption Michel Euler/AP Michel Euler/AP BRUSSELS — Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta will have to police their platforms more strictly to better protect European users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content under landmark EU legislation approved early Saturday. Sponsor Message …

Big Tech faces ‘major’ EU law on hate speech, disinformation
2 years, 8 months ago

Big Tech faces ‘major’ EU law on hate speech, disinformation

Associated Press  

LONDON — Taking aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content online, the European Union is nearing agreement on a sweeping law that would force big tech companies to police themselves harder, make it easier for users to flag problems, and empower regulators to punish noncompliance with billions in fines. EU officials negotiated into the late hours of Friday …

Today’s Cache | Apple finds a supporter in Roblox
2 years, 9 months ago

Today’s Cache | Apple finds a supporter in Roblox

The Hindu  

Lawmakers in Europe and Asia have moved against Apple’s App Store dominance in the past few years. In Asia, South Korea’s competition regulator passed a legislation that makes Apple open its iPhone to another digital marketplace. Commenting on DMA in 2021, Apple’s head of engineering services Craig Federighi said the “European policymakers have often been ahead of the curve, but …

How Europe’s bold new rules for Big Tech could change the services you use
2 years, 9 months ago

How Europe’s bold new rules for Big Tech could change the services you use

CNN  

New York CNN Business — Apple users could soon install apps outside the App Store. By imposing new regulations on technology platforms deemed to be dominant “gatekeepers,” the Digital Markets Act could result in sweeping changes to how EU citizens — and potentially consumers around the world — interact with major tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook parent …

EU agrees on new digital rules to rein in Big Tech dominance
2 years, 9 months ago

EU agrees on new digital rules to rein in Big Tech dominance

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — The European Union set the stage for a stepped-up crackdown on big tech companies with an agreement on landmark digital rules to rein in online “gatekeepers” such as Google and Facebook parent Meta. “What we have been deciding about yesterday will start a new era in tech regulation,” the European Union’s lead lawmaker Andreas Schwab, said at a …

U.S. tech giants face tough new rules as EU countries, lawmakers clinch deal
2 years, 9 months ago

U.S. tech giants face tough new rules as EU countries, lawmakers clinch deal

The Hindu  

Alphabet's Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft may have to change their core business practices in Europe as EU countries and EU lawmakers on Thursday clinched a deal on landmark rules to curb their powers. Proposed by EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager just over a year ago in response to the slow pace of competition investigations, the Digital Markets Act …

EU officials agree on rules to rein in Big Tech dominance
2 years, 9 months ago

EU officials agree on rules to rein in Big Tech dominance

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — European Union officials agreed Thursday on a landmark provisional agreement aimed at clamping down on the biggest online companies, dubbed digital “gatekeepers,” by laying out a list of dos and don’ts. With those rules, the bloc is seeking to prevent tech giants like Google, Meta and Apple from dominating digital markets, a change from its previous practice of …

EU officials agree on sweeping new rules targeting Big Tech
2 years, 9 months ago

EU officials agree on sweeping new rules targeting Big Tech

CNN  

Washington European officials have reached agreement on a sweeping set of competition rules for Big Tech that could mark a global turning point for technology regulation. The proposed framework, known as the Digital Markets Act, could label large companies such as Facebook-parent Meta or Google as "gatekeepers," and subject them to new requirements and prohibitions. During negotiations late Thursday, European …

Rules to rein in power of Big Tech on the anvil in EU
2 years, 9 months ago

Rules to rein in power of Big Tech on the anvil in EU

The Hindu  

BRUSSELS - The European Commission aims to clinch a fast-tracked deal with EU lawmakers and countries by the end of March on new rules to rein in the powers of Alphabet's Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, Europe's antitrust chief said on Wednesday. Margrethe Vestager, who had proposed the Digital Markets Act more than a year ago with a list …

Big Tech vs Red Tech and Diminishing Democracy in Digital Age
2 years, 10 months ago

Big Tech vs Red Tech and Diminishing Democracy in Digital Age

News 18  

In the third decade of the twenty-first century, democracies face a new adversary — technology. While the United States and the European Union have enabled the creation of penetrated and argumentative democracies — wherein all countries and civil society organisations can advocate for the regulation of big tech or the promulgation of General Data Protection Regulation standards — China has …

Reining in the power of tech giants
2 years, 11 months ago

Reining in the power of tech giants

The Hindu  

The story so far: On January 20, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary approved a bill that would prohibit Big Tech platforms, such as Amazon.com Inc., Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, from favouring their products and services or ‘self-preferencing’. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act was introduced in Senate on October 18, 2021, …

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