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    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      TikTok and Meta challenge EU’s landmark digital rules

      Companies argue that their services should not come under the purview of new law designed to improve competition

      Facebook and Messenger app logos on a smartphone
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Melanie Dawes
      New UK online harms rules must work in concert with EU

      Where the laws have different scope, it’s important that implementing them does not create conflicts for companies

      Teenaged girls in the front row of a concert all gaze at their phones while they wait for the next act
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Google and prominent telecom groups urge Brussels to act over Apple’s iMessage

      Companies want chat app designated a ‘core’ service that would require it to be fully compatible with rivals

      iMessage app on aphone
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      X Corp
      EU opens probe into Musk’s X over Israel-Hamas war misinformation

      Investigation is first under bloc’s Digital Services Act and follows letter raising concerns about platform

      Thierry Breton
    • Saturday, 7 October, 2023
      Booking.com BV
      Booking chief hits out at Brussels for blocking €1.6bn Etraveli deal

      Glenn Fogel says preventing purchase of smaller Swedish flights-only group makes ‘European tech ecosystem less competitive’

      Montage of Glenn Fogel in front of a Booking Holdings sign
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Meta to charge users in EU for ad-free Instagram and Facebook

      Tech group plans a $14 monthly subscription fee for access via mobile

      Social media apps on a phone, including Instagram
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Brussels warns against ‘paranoia’ when regulating generative AI

      European Commission vice-president says legislation should be based on ‘solid analysis’

      Věra Jourová
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Booking accuses EU regulators of acting unlawfully in blocking Etraveli deal

      US online travel site says Brussels has not shown €1.63bn acquisition of Swedish group will force rivals to close

      Booking.com logo on a mobile
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      TikTok Inc
      EU fines TikTok €345mn for breaching children’s data rules

      Probe finds Chinese social media app infringed regulations for users aged under 17

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    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      EU pushes back on ‘too big to care’ tech companies

      US and European corporate bond markets have started September with a bang

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Big Tech faces fresh legal obligations as Brussels lists services bound by new rules

      Apple’s App Store and Google’s YouTube among 22 digital services classed as ‘gatekeepers’ as new EU law kicks in

      A montage of the logos of Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Apple and Microsoft fight Brussels over ‘gatekeeper’ label for iMessage and Bing

      EU aims to curb Big Tech as it lists services to be regulated under Digital Markets Act

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    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Microsoft Corp
      Microsoft to unbundle Teams to appease EU competition worries

      Tech giant to also make it easier for competing apps to be interoperable in bid to stop Brussels’ antitrust probe

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    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Tech giants race to alter online operations as EU digital rules bite

      Social media groups restrict personalised ads in scramble to comply with landmark legislation

      Montage of Google, TikTok, Zalando, Amazon and Meta logos
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Inside BusinessRichard Waters
      Google vs the DoJ is a test case for reining in Big Tech

      For all the sound and fury in Washington, regulators have yet to score any big antitrust wins against Silicon Valley

      A neon Google sign in the company’s New York office
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Booking offers concessions to EU in bid to clinch €1.6bn Etraveli deal

      Amsterdam-based online travel group seeks to overcome competition concerns around purchase of Swedish flights site

    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Spain’s curbs on Uber-style apps face probe over potential breach of EU law

      Ride-hailing groups fighting to unlock potential growth market complain over new rules protecting the taxi industry

      Taxi cabs waiting for passengers in Plaça d’Espagna, Barcelona
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      EU probes Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with Office software package

      Concerns tech giant will gain distribution advantages by not allowing choice over access to video conferencing app

    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      France hits out at Apple over data use for advertising

      Complaint from competition authorities is first such act against US tech giant

      Commuters on phones in a subway station
    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      EU business regulation
      Macron chides Brussels for hiring American economist

      French president escalates dispute over appointment of Fiona Scott Morton to EU’s antitrust arm

      Fiona Scott Morton
    • Monday, 17 July, 2023
      Microsoft to face EU probe over Teams and Office bundling

      Investigation would centre on claims US tech giant is unfairly linking its videoconferencing app with popular software

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    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      European Commission
      France attacks choice of prominent US economist for EU job

      Fiona Scott Morton picked for influential post in competition department after having consulted for big tech companies

      Fiona Scott Morton
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Google releases chatbot in Europe after addressing privacy concerns

      US tech giant delayed its initial Bard launch to improve transparency to comply with regulators

      The Google Bard logo on a mobile phone screen
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Amazon becomes first US company to challenge EU digital rules

      Seattle-based group files legal action against proposed legislation designed to rein in Big Tech

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    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Technology regulation
      EU-US data-sharing deal comes into force amid threats of legal challenge

      New privacy guarantees designed to reassure companies over transfer of personal information between regions

      A man walks across a square looking at his mobile phone
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