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EU tech regulation

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Booking Holdings
    Booking.com chief slams EU over ‘dumb’ regulations

    Glenn Fogel says burden from bloc’s new digital rules is putting online travel giant at a ‘competitive disadvantage’

    Glenn Fogel
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Apple Inc
    Apple to settle ‘tap-and-go’ payments probe with EU

    Tech company willing to open mobile pay system to rivals in concessions that will help avoid antitrust fines from the bloc

    The woman touches her phone to the kiosk’s payments terminal
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Apple Inc
    Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law

    Brussels to announce iPhone maker is failing to adhere to new rules designed to open up its app store to competition

    Montage of an iphone showing the App Store against an EU flag backdrop
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    News in-depthOpenAI
    OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulation

    ChatGPT maker beefs up global affairs unit as politicians push for new laws that could constrain powerful AI models

    Chris Lehane, Sam Altman and Anna Makanju with OpenAI logo
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Inside BusinessJavier Espinoza
    Microsoft feels the heat in Europe

    After a long truce with regulators in Brussels, it is facing more scrutiny

    The logo of Microsoft US multinational tecnology corporation
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Meta Platforms
    EU launches probe into Meta over social media addiction in children

    Facebook and Instagram owner to be investigated on whether it does enough to protect mental health of young users

    A young person using a smartphone while in bed
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Lex
    In European tech, regulation vs innovation is a spurious debate Premium content

    The rulebooks that matter most to success in tech innovation probably are not regulatory ones

    Apple, Google and Meta logos with the European Union flag in the background
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Microsoft Corp
    Microsoft set to face EU competition charges over Teams software

    Tech group’s effort to avoid action by unbundling videoconferencing app from its other software appears to have failed

    A person walks past Microsoft signage at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    News in-depthTechnology regulation
    Big Tech regulatory crackdown spreads to Asia and Australia

    Tokyo, Seoul and Canberra follow EU and US in trying to rein in dominance of Apple and Google

    The Apple and Google logos with hands using a phone
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Meta Platforms
    EU to probe Meta over handling of Russian disinformation

    Regulators set to express concern over insufficient moderation of political ads that risk undermining electoral process

  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Inside BusinessJavier Espinoza
    Why Big Tech fines do not work

    Critics argue that penalties are just seen as part of the cost of doing business

    The Apple logo inside a building, seen through the branches of a tree
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law

    Big Tech groups are the first to face full investigations under bloc’s Digital Markets Act

    A montage of the the EU flag and the logos of Apple, Meta and Google
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Soumaya Keynes
    Would a subscription model make social media better?

    These platforms aren’t free, and regulators are trying to manage the price

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a person feeding a coin into a slot in a mobile phone displaying numerous apps
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Apple Inc
    ‘Apple is going to war’: US lawsuit adds to iPhone maker’s antitrust woes

    Regulators in Washington and the EU have tech giant in their crosshairs at particularly challenging time

    Tim Cook and Jonathan Kanter
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    EU to impose election safeguards on Big Tech

    Social media platforms including X and TikTok will face fines for failing to tackle disinformation

    Thierry Breton, the commissioner in charge of enforcing the DSA, pictured in Strasbourg
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Rival nations seek to poach top UK and European AI start-ups

    Canada and UAE lobby companies as global competition over developing cutting-edge technology heats up

    Hewlett-Packard Enterprises staff operating an AI robot, which was developed with German start-up Aleph Alpha, at a technology fair
  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
    Apple Inc
    Apple bows to Brussels over App Store in latest EU concession

    Tech giant seeks to comply with European law with approval for iPhone apps to be downloaded from developers’ websites

    A woman looks at a smartphone
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Inside BusinessRichard Waters
    The EU’s giant experiment in tech micromanagement

    New Digital Markets Act will be a test case for how far regulators can dictate design of products and services

    Margrethe Vestager talks to media
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    The Big Read
    Will Big Tech agree to play by Europe’s rules?

    This week is the deadline for large online platforms to comply with new EU regulations on competition. Too little too late, say some

    FT montage of the EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager surrounded by Big Tech logos
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    Apple Inc
    Apple fined €1.8bn for breaking EU law over music streaming

    iPhone maker hit by first Brussels penalty as competition watchdogs step up scrutiny of Big Tech

    Apple logo
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why app developers think the EU’s first ever Apple fine is ‘a joke’ Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Germany searches for far-left militants wanted since the 1990s

    Apple logo is seen on the Apple store at The Marche Saint Germain in Paris
  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
    Amazon.com
    Amazon lobbyists to be barred from European parliament

    Move comes after pressure from activist groups over transparency and working conditions at ecommerce group

    An Amazon employee places an item in to a distribution cage
  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    Apple Inc
    EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps

    Competition regulators in Brussels send questions to developers over iPhone maker’s decision

    A customer looking at an iPhone 15 Pro in an Apple store in Berlin, Germany
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Booking Holdings
    Booking faces almost €500mn fine in Spain over competition practices

    Regulators seek to clamp down on world’s biggest online travel group as part of efforts to control tech dominance

    Tourists on Las Ramblas, Barcelona
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Apple Inc
    Apple rivals lobby EU over App Store dominance

    Meta and Microsoft want Brussels regulators to extract more concessions that unpick iOS mobile software

    Person looks at a phone against backdrop of EU flag and Apple logo
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