Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images | Getty) Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition chief, will later this week issue charges against Apple stating that its App Store rules break EU law, according to several people with direct knowledge of the situation. The charges relate to a complaint brought two years ago by Spotify, the music streaming app, […]
Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems has filed a complaint against Google in France alleging that the US tech giant is illegally tracking users on Android phones without their consent. Android phones generate unique advertising codes, similar to Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), that allow Google and third parties to track users’ browsing behavior in order […]
Enlarge / Fortnite on an iPhone… back when that was a thing. (credit: Savusia Konstantin | Getty Images) Epic Games, maker of Fortnite, is loading up a new map in its ongoing fight against Apple as it files an antitrust complaint against the mobile phone maker in the European Union. Epic alleges in its complaint […]
The spread of variants which are more transmissible and potentially less sensitive to existing vaccines has spooked EU governments.
The European economy will recover more slowly this year as the coronavirus keeps a tight grip on the region, with the outlook resting largely on a vaccination campaign that has so far stumbled. The European Commission cut its forecast for euro-area growth this year to 3.8% from 4.2%, and said its predictions “crucially” hinge on virus containment […]
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Although Europe’s tough General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in place for nearly three years now, it was only a few weeks ago that its main enforcer for most big U.S. tech firms—the Irish […]
The French authorities inflicted a 48-hour ban on the two trucks and people coming to the nation in the U.K., beginning now. The choice is very likely to cripple U.K. commerce with the rest of Europe, a lot of that crosses involving Calais, in France, also Dover[/ / hotlink], at England. The prospective food shortages […]
Expand (credit: Getty Images | Walter Zerla) The EU will sabotage on Tuesday to split up Substantial Tech businesses if they {} in anti-competitive behaviour. The warning comes as Brussels publishes its own loopholes of 2 important new parts of technology regulation. A Digital Markets Act would need to undertake unfair competition in the industry, […]
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cautioned that a no-deal split using all the U.K. is that the likeliest result on Dec. 31 as last-ditch talks to attempt and achieve a deal ahead of Sunday remain in Brussels. On Friday, von der Leyen spent only 10 minutes briefing authorities leaders on the topic. On […]
The leaders agreed that discussions should continue within the upcoming few days even though important differences left between the U.K. and European Union over exactly what their upcoming transaction relationship must look like. From Dec. 13 a company decision will have to be taken about the future of their discussions, both sides stated. Johnson’s staff […]