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How Big Tech lost the antitrust battle with Europe (Financial Times)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 11:45EU and UK open antitrust probe into Google and Meta over online ads
Regulators in Europe and the UK have opened an antitrust probe into a deal between Google and Meta/Facebook on online advertising, in the latest effort to tackle the market power of the world’s biggest technology companies. The move follows US antitrust investigators who are also probing an agreement informally known as “Jedi Blue.” Google and Facebook have been accused of working together to carve up advertising profits, acting together to buttress their businesses.
Deutsche Telekom and Spain’s Telefónica boosted by international growth (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/24/2022 - 06:29Twitter admits it mistakenly removed Ukraine open-source intelligence accounts (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/24/2022 - 06:28Opinion: Internet law needs ministers to move fast and break things (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/24/2022 - 06:28Slim’s América Móvil launches 5G rollout in Mexico (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 02/23/2022 - 11:44European Commission takes on SpaceX and Amazon with its own satellite internet system
The European Commission has approved plans for a €6 billion satellite internet system to compete with the likes of Amazon and SpaceX, despite previous objections from its internal watchdog. Brussels’ initiative to provide encrypted broadband coverage was twice rejected by the European Commission’s Regulatory Scrutiny Board. The board, which vets impact assessments for proposals put forward by the commission, believed the scheme would waste money and compete with commercial services.