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Breton said he’ll decide by the end of the year if he wants to adopt a set of stringent rules as a way for the EU to set out ironclad responsibilities for social media platforms and regulate them. He said that Facebook had failed to mention its own market dominance and that its rules had not set up any responsibilities.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

15) extensive potential new regulations for digital services that would cover online marketplaces, social media and other platforms, offering first drafts for the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) to the public. The European Commission released on Tuesday (Dec.

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MAY 20, 2020

European Union (EU) regulators want feedback from users and digital service providers before they craft new rules that could manage giant tech firms Google, Facebook, Amazon and Uber, Reuters reported. Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published “Charting the Way Forward: Online Content Regulation.”

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

and Europe to develop tough new regulations to take on big tech, according to a Reuters report on Monday (Oct. EU antitrust regulators in August started probing a $2.1 billion acquisition deal for Google to buy Fitbit. Japan is teaming up with the U.S. We’re closely watching developments including in Europe.”.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

European regulators this week continued to show their love, respect and admiration for U.S.-based Assuming that caught your attention, here’s the real story: It’s shaping up as a busy week for regulators in Europe (including Turkey, which for purposes of this article, qualifies as Europe). Google Fine. Speaking of Google ….

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JULY 17, 2020

Facebook Inc’s top executives could be required to testify before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as the regulator investigates whether the California-based social media conglomerate has violated U.S. The company has emerged as a dominant player in the nation’s digital advertising market. billion global users.

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MAY 16, 2019

Across the European Union (EU), technology providers and social media platforms are increasingly playing a bigger role in the Open Banking ecosystem. At the same time, however, many players, like Facebook and Google , are squaring off against regulators that are looking at their data and payment policies with more scrutiny.

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MARCH 30, 2018

With fresh concerns about government regulation of cryptocurrency surfacing, Bitcoin and other digital tokens continued the recent declines in value, erasing $550 billion in value for the global cryptocurrency market since the start of 2018.

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MARCH 11, 2019

European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that breaking up big tech companies like Facebook and Google should be seen as a last resort, and that the better idea might be to find a way to regulate data usage. Vestager was speaking at SXSW , according to reports. “To

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Here’s the latest news from Facebook, Amazon and others, which are coming under increasing scrutiny from regulators, trade groups and politicians the world over. Regulations. The social media company has indicated that the Access Act, a proposed data portability law, is a first move in the right direction.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Facebook ’s stock was under pressure Friday (March 15), reaching its lowest point in three months after it announced Chris Cox, chief product officer, is leaving the social media giant. In a research report late last week JPMorgan said Cox played a critical role in creating the social media giant’s mission, value and culture.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Regulation. Tencent Holdings President Martin Lau said further regulations are needed in China to mirror a “new reality.”. As technology companies become bigger and more important to the economy, I would say more regulations to reflect the new reality are needed," Lau said, according to the report.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

On Friday, the House Judiciary Committee, investigating antitrust issues tied to marquee names such as Facebook, Google and others, delivered letters asking for communications and documents that may shed light on the reasons and processes surrounding changes in the competitive landscape, including various mergers and acquisitions.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Facebook is turning off a number of functions in its Instagram and Messenger apps for European users after new a European Union regulation called the “ePrivacy directive” began covering messaging apps as of Dec. It takes time to rebuild products in a way that work seamlessly for people and also comply with new regulation.”.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Perhaps a better, more specific question is this: Even with Google ’s search engine dominance (a dominance that seems as currently eternal as, say, the power of the British Navy in the late 19 th century), can any challenger make a significant push to gain ground? Further regulations are looming. The pitch comes down to privacy.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will decide on Wednesday (Dec. The CMA is very interested in tech giants extending their tentacles into other markets,” Alan Davis, a competition lawyer at Pinsent Masons in London, told Bloomberg. having active investigations into Google, Facebook and Amazon.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The membership roster for the CCIA includes Amazon, Facebook and Google, among others. Delrahim also cautioned that there could be competition concerns by regulators over data collected by tech companies. Delrahim also cautioned that there could be competition concerns by regulators over data collected by tech companies.

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APRIL 5, 2019

According to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll , by 50 percent to 47 percent, Americans disagree with Warren’s plans to split big tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google into smaller competing companies. Google and Amazon came out slightly better.

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JULY 9, 2019

Representatives from Amazon , Apple , Facebook and Google are scheduled to appear before the House Antitrust Subcommittee. The subcommittee revealed that it would “examine the impact of market power of online platforms on innovation and entrepreneurship.”. We are here to help.”.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Sure, the social media platform said it lost one million active users from Europe after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on May 25, tightening privacy regulations and making it more difficult for online advertisers to target consumers. Google, too, should weather the storm in pretty good shape.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Reuters noted that Alipay, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, is close behind HSBC in terms of its market capitalization, which prompted Chinese regulators to more closely monitor it and WeChat Pay, the digital payment arm of China’s Tencent.

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MARCH 12, 2018

Austin Burkett, global head of Quant and Feeds at Thomson Reuters, said, “News and social media are driving the investment and risk management process more than ever with the continuing rise of passive and quant-driven trading.”. As bitcoin slid over the past few months, searches for “bitcoin” on Google declined, Bloomberg reported.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for kids — this and more of the latest news from the Frightful Five, just in case you missed it. Andromeda was one of the oldest malwares on the market.

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JULY 30, 2020

The big day finally came — the CEOs of Amazon , Apple , Facebook and Google ‘s parent, Alphabet , sat in front of lawmakers (at least virtually) and spent four hours getting grilled by a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

YouTube has a chance to take advantage of recent Facebook problems and move past the social media platform in terms of website traffic, according to a new study. YouTube’s parent, Google, already is the undisputed, unthreatened champion of U.S. billion visits in July, according to market research firm SimilarWeb.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The Edelman Trust Barometer shows that public confidence in search engines and social media platforms fell 11 percentage points from 2017 and 2018. Facebook stock is down and it faces investigation by a growing list of international regulators. Google has lost employees and also faces regulation.

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JULY 24, 2018

It’s easy to imagine the appeal: Transferring loyalty program data from one grocer to another, moving image data from a social media site to an online photo-printing service, retaining access to music playlists after leaving a website with weak privacy protections or other flaws. DTP Development.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They’re highly regulated. And how can marketing build toward it? It’s the Google experience. Health systems that succeed in building “stickiness” do things like use gamification and social media tools. It’s the social media or TurboTax experience. They have much bigger privacy concerns. And so on….

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JUNE 3, 2019

Shares in Facebook were down 8 percent after a Wall Street Journal story revealed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will have jurisdiction to examine the social media company over competition concerns. Facebook lost $33 billion out of its market cap and settled at $472 billion.

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JUNE 19, 2018

The time for “wait and see” is running out when it comes to new European privacy regulations. Soon enough, the financial and consumer impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become clear enough that companies that took a laggard’s approach may start to feel significant pain.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

As we wrap up 2018, here are a several milestones our team is reflecting on, plus a current status update: 2006: Myspace reigns as the most popular internet site — marking more unique visits than Google itself. 2010: Instagram launches as a photo and video-sharing social media network.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

From both parties, House Judiciary Committee leaders asked Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Alphabet to provide many documents ranging from financial statements to executive communications in addition to information about market share, mergers, competitors and critical business decisions.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Source: Think with Google.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

In today’s age of tightening Know Your Customer ( KYC ) regulations, Know Your Supplier has also become an equally important priority in B2B trade. Indeed, research from ThomasNet in its 2018 Industrial Buying Habits Report found Google to be the most common digital platform for companies to source and connect with suppliers.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California’s similar law , Facebook’s ongoing costs and stock price plunge in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal — all point to a new, stricter attitude about keeping online data private. Overall, 69 percent of consumers favor GDPR-like regulations in the United States.

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MARCH 6, 2020

We don’t search, we Google. For example, say you’re in the market for a new car. Each of the 50 states has different rules and regulations regarding lotteries, contests and bidding, which is one of the reasons Rizvi believes that potentially huge competitors like Amazon and eBay will think hard before entering this space.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Google … and Ad-Supported Search . The category that Google innovated 20 years ago – ad-supported search – now appears to be one of its scariest things. Consumers don’t Google for takeout anymore – they go straight to Grubhub. Apple … and the iPhone Customer.

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