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EU queries Apple, Google, Microsoft over financial scams: FILE - | The European Union flag stands inside the atrium at the European Council building in Brussels ...
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EU queries Big Tech players Apple, Google, Microsoft over financial scams: The EU has vowed it will not back down from enforcing its stringent rules to protect ...
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EU queries Apple, Google, Microsoft over financial scams: Fears app stores could be used to create fake apps
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EU quizzes Apple, Google and Microsoft over financial scams: Commission said it sent the requests "to monitor and request information on how they make sure ...
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Microsoft, Apple, Google and Booking to answer EU questions on scams: The European Commission wants to know if the companies comply with the Digital Services Act ...
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Away from Microsoft: MEPs demand digital sovereignty in the EU Parliament: A cross-party group of MEPs is appealing to the EU Parliament to abandon the use of MS ...
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EU Rejects US Demand to Ease Tech Rules for Lower Steel Tariffs: The European Union’s antitrust chief ruled out easing the bloc’s tech rulebook ...
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Paid articlePaywallEU probes Amazon, Microsoft's cloud services for potential curbs: The European Commission has launched three market investigations on cloud computing services by ...
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OpinionThe EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power
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This is how much Meta, Microsoft, Apple & Co. spend on EU lobbying: The ten largest tech companies now invest more money in lobbying than the leading companies ...
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Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam
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Amazon outage highlights EU’s ‘overwhelming reliance on Big Tech': Amazon's AWS, Microsoft, and Google control around 70 per cent of Europe’s cloud market.
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OpenAI warns EU that Apple, Microsoft and Google can threaten competition in AI: All details here
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Google, Apple, Microsoft probed in scam crackdown : Regulators ramp up pressure on Big Tech over fraud.
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EU asks Apple, Google and Microsoft what they are doing to tackle finance scams: Apple , Google and Microsoft have been asked by EU tech regulators about the ...
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Apple under legal scrutiny in the EU over scam apps - 9to5Mac: Apple has frequently cited insecure and scam apps as justification for wanting all iPhone apps to ...
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Microsoft swerves EU antitrust fine with price deal for unbundled Teams: Microsoft avoided a potentially hefty EU antitrust fine by promising reduced prices for ...
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Google scraps some cloud data transfer fees in EU and UK: Google said on Wednesday it had scrapped data transfer fees for organisations processing workloads "in ...
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The New Green Light for Google’s Monopoly: For a while, it seemed as though Google’s dominance might get reined in, but monopoly is now back on the menu.
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OpinionWho owns and controls your data?: As governments accelerate their digitization of public services, the privacy rights of their citizens must come first.
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No plans to get Big Tech to pay digital law compliance costs, EU tech chief says: The European Commission will not ask Alphabet , Amazon , Apple , ByteDance ...
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Trump urges Europe to reform unfair tax policies: The Trump administration’s announcement to hike tariffs on Europe is a wake-up call for Europe to end its ...
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Can anyone stop Google’s illegal monopoly?: Biggest US antitrust victory since Microsoft could still be too little, too late, as judge considers how to rein in ...
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Key FactsGoogle Antitrust Case Echoes Microsoft’s 2001 Battle
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- The recent US court ruling draws parallels between Google's practices and Microsoft's antitrust case from 2001.
- Microsoft was accused of stifling innovation by bundling Internet Explorer as the default browser on its OS.
- Despite requiring Google to permit competitor services, its pervasive role in users' digital environments remains largely intact.
- The case highlights challenges in legally addressing tech giants deeply embedded in everyday life and culture.
Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though… And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.— Bill Gates, 1996 – Remarks on software piracy in China; quoted in the article
European Commission hits Microsoft with antitrust warning over Teams app: Microsoft has already racked up more than €2 billion in EU fines for antitrust abuses
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Paid articlePaywallReport: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams: Unbundling Teams from Office has apparently failed to impress EU regulators.
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