by Surur
2 days
A bit like a reverse TikTok, Facebook is threatening to exit the EU market after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) ruled that they company could not transfer European user data to USA due to privacy concerns. In a court...
by Lewis White
1 month
The European Union has revealed that they’re aware of the restrictive Apple App Store practices that are blocking services like Microsoft’s Project xCloud from releasing on iOS devices. Reported by Reuters, the restr...
by Surur
2 months
The European Court of Justice has just struck down the EU-US Privacy Sheild agreement, which has allowed US companies to transfer EU user data to USA, on the condition that the data would be dealt with to the same standard of requ...
by Surur
7 months
The European Union is on a tear with proposals which will force companies to make electronics more sustainable. We have already heard how the EU plans to force phone companies to settle on only one charging connector (likely USB-C...
by Pradeep
8 months
Recently we reported that Apple may be forced to ship iPhones with USB-C port in the European Union. As we expected, EU parliament this week voted 582-40 in favor of a resolution to urge action by the European Commission on a comm...
by Surur
8 months
The European Commission is trying to get phone companies to standardize on a common charging plug with EU competition Chief Margrethe Vestager saying: “Given the unsatisfactory progress with this voluntary approach, the Comm...
by Pradeep
8 months
Right now, most smartphones ship with USB-C port, some come with micro-USB port, while the iPhones ship with Apple’s Lightning port. Over the past few years, the European Union has been discussing about the rules to standard...
by Surur
10 months
Repeatedly the target of record fines by the European Competition Commission, Google is once again being investigated by the EU, Reuters has been able to confirm. An unnamed EU official told Reuters the concern was mainly around G...
by Surur
10 months
We reported in October that Apple was drawing attention from the European Competition Commission over their monopoly over the NFC reader on the iPhone which prevented other payment companies such as banks from supporting contact-l...
by Surur
11 months
Apple is not best known for letting competitors into their walled garden or for letting an opportunity to skim profits from any transactions which takes place there. It is, therefore, no surprise that Apple is once in the crosshai...
by Surur
11 months
While Microsoft has been at the forefront of keeping their clients compliant with the 2018 European General Data Protection Regulation, they have had more than their fair share of issues with regulators around their implementation...
12 months
Google has come under fire by the European Union for its practice of requiring Android firms to bundle in apps like Google Chrome and the Google Search alongside Android in order to gain access to the Google Play Store. The firm w...