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Macron gives EU tech tax a political push
STRASBOURG — Emmanuel Macron is gunning to turn his crusade against Big Tech into a broad political rallying cry ahead of next year’s European Parliament election. Six months after the...
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Apple’s Tim Cook heads to Brussels to talk privacy amid ongoing tax fight
When Tim Cook shows up in Brussels on Wednesday, the stage will be set for a triumphant return to Europe two years after the Apple CEO clashed with Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s antitrust czar, in the...
View ArticleItaly hits Apple, Samsung with fines over ‘planned obsolescence’
Italy’s Competition Authority has fined Apple and Samsung €10 million and €5 million respectively for inducing users to install software updates which it says “significantly reduced” the performance of...
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Apple, Google, Facebook line up to pay homage to EU privacy rules
Top executives from Facebook, Google and Apple heaped praise on Europe’s revamped data protection standards Wednesday, just as these companies face ever tighter scrutiny over privacy and the prospect...
View ArticleFacebook reconsiders Washington approach after Times reveals hardball tactics
WASHINGTON — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg vowed to cut ties with “D.C.-type firms” as his company fought to escape yet another bout of furor, this time surrounding its efforts to contain the damage...
View ArticleFrench tax on Google, Facebook to apply from January 1, 2019
A French tax on digital giants including Google and Facebook will enter into force on January 1, 2019, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire announced Monday. The government, which lobbied unsuccessfully for...
View Article2018: The year in figures and charts
What a tremendous, nebulous year. Very much like last year, 2018 was full of endless Brexit drama. And endless Trump drama. And then there was some more Brexit drama. And some more Trump drama. But...
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Vestager seeks to weather Franco-German storm to stay in Brussels
It’s not the news that Google and Apple want to hear, but EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has no plans to quit Brussels any time soon. Even though she generated intense hostility from France and...
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Spotify picks antitrust fight with Apple
Spotify has a new plan to combat Apple in Brussels. The Swedish music streaming service said on Wednesday that it has complained to the European Commission’s antitrust enforcers that Apple unfairly...
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Build democracy into AI
NEW YORK — The year is 2019. The technology that will determine the future of humanity is concentrated in the hands of just nine entities. Their decisions are not driven by what is good for you or me —...
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