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Pavithra Mohan |
EU Regulators Investigate Amazon's E-Book Practices The European Commission announced Thursday that it is looking into whether or not Amazon's policies pressured rivals into keeping their prices higher.   |
Fast Company
September 2015
Rose Pastore |
How Europe Is Finally Taking On Silicon Valley The E.U. is taking legal and regulatory action that would boost local upstarts and rein in U.S. tech giants. |
Fast Company
Annelise McGough |
Google Cites Free Nature Of Search In EU Antitrust Defense Google has been the subject of a formal antitrust investigation in the European Union since April, over charges that it unfairly displays its own shopping service more prominently than competitors in search results. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Facebook Must Stop Sending Personal Data From Europe To The U.S., Says Activist Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems has now flagged Facebook and asked that European data protection bodies halt the company's transfer of personal data. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
Google To Be Charged With Breaking European Antitrust Laws Following months of speculation, it appears that the European Commission's competition branch is finally ready to charge search-engine giant Google with antitrust violations. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Apple And Amazon May Face Antitrust Charges In Germany Over Audiobooks Deal Germany's competition regulator, the Federal Cartel Office, has launched an investigation into the deal Apple inked years ago with Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobooks company, according to Reuters. |
InternetNews
May 13, 2010 |
Facebook Confirms All-Hands Privacy Meeting Under increasing pressure from users, privacy advocates and government officials, Facebook is planning to take up the issue at a company-wide meeting. |
PC Magazine
June 13, 2011
Chloe Albanesius |
Privacy Groups Request FTC Probe of Facebook Facial Recognition Tech A D.C.-based privacy group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to examine Facebook's facial-recognition technology. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Facebook Tracks You Even If You Opt Out, Says Belgian Report If you have suspected Facebook is tracking you for ad campaigns, no matter what, all the time: You are right. |
InternetNews
May 24, 2010 |
Facebook CEO Apologizes for Privacy Missteps CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes his first public comments in response to Facebook's latest privacy controversy, promising to reveal a set of updates to the site in short order. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Why Facebook's New Photo App Won't Be Available In Europe Facebook's latest standalone app Moments won't be making its way to Europe due to privacy concerns. |
Fast Company
Rose Pastore |
Google Strikes Back Against Europe's Antitrust Charges Google published a blog post on Thursday responding to the European Commission's claims that some of its practices are anti-competitive. |
InternetNews
December 2, 2009 |
Facebook Tweaks Privacy Controls, Hits 350M Users Facebook passes a milestone and distances itself from its original network-based approach to privacy. |
InternetNews
November 18, 2009 |
Facebook Adopts Simplified Privacy Policy Facebook has formalized an update to its privacy rules in an effort to bring clarity and simplicity to the social networking giant's policies. |
Information Today
June 18, 2015 |
The European Commission Investigates Amazon's Ebook Distribution Contracts The European Commission initiated a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon's business practices regarding ebook distribution, according to STM Publishing News. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2009 |
Facebook Launches Privacy Overhaul Social networking giant to require all 350 million-plus users to edit and confirm privacy controls. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
German Government Investigating Google, Facebook The German government has unexpectedly announced plans to investigate Google and Facebook for illegal data transfers. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
The EU Officially Reveals Its Plan To Reduce Silicon Valley's Power In Europe As part of its ongoing effort to reposition its economy, the European Union just formally unveiled plans to unify its fractured markets and take a more aggressive stance toward U.S. tech companies. |
InternetNews
July 14, 2009 |
Facebook Rules in Time Spent Online Facebook leads the pack in the time users spend at the site, according to Nielsen Online. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Facebook Exec Warns That Lawsuits Will Cripple Innovation In Europe If Facebook is held back by stringent policies, European startups will be, too, argues Facebook chief of public policy Richard Allan in an op-ed in the Financial Times. |
InternetNews
July 1, 2010 |
Facebook Simplifies Privacy Policy for Apps In an effort to help users understand how much information they're sharing with third parties - and to satisfy its agreement with the Canadian government - Facebook is tweaking its privacy rules for apps. |
InternetNews
December 1, 2010 |
EU Slaps Google With Antitrust Probe European antitrust authorities announce the launch of a formal investigation into allegations from Google's rivals that the firm used its dominant market power to crowd out competition. |
Reason
May 2004
Julian Sanchez |
Data: State Squeeze A study finds state and local taxes on business - including property, sales, and corporate income taxes - growing at an accelerating rate. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2010 |
Zuckerberg Defends Facebook's Privacy Approach The social networking phenom has come under fire for recent changes to its privacy settings. Facebook's CEO offers some insight on what it was thinking. |
InternetNews
January 22, 2008 |
Google Spars With European Lawmakers Over Privacy Google attacked European parliamentarians and privacy advocates on Monday for trying to have regulators consider competitive implications in its $3.1 billion takeover of rival DoubleClick. |
Reason
February 2007
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Where Taxes Are Quickest A report from the World Bank charts how much time medium-sized companies in various countries spend on their tax returns. |
InternetNews
October 29, 2009 |
Facebook Rejiggers Privacy Rules Following Probe Social-networking giant lives up to its agreement with Canadian authorities and now seeks comment from users. |
InternetNews
August 11, 2010 |
Is Google Ready to Compete With Facebook? Why would Google invade Facebook's well-established social networking turf? |
CRM
December 2015
Leonard Klie |
European Union Rejects U.S. Data Privacy Laws Sharing customer data across the pond will get harder |
InternetNews
August 27, 2009 |
Facebook Tweaks Privacy Policy in Face of Inquiry Bowing to pressure from Canadian regulators, Facebook said it plans to give users more control over how data is shared on the site. |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2010
Chloe Albanesius |
Consumers Haven't Learned Not to Divulge Private Info Online Despite warnings from privacy advocates to protect your personal information while online, many adults are still engaging in risky behavior via social networking sites, a new report from Consumer Reports concluded Tuesday. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Europe Unveils Strategy To (Finally) Compete With U.S. Tech Titans After multiple lawsuits aimed at U.S. tech titans, the European Union is proposing a unified digital marketplace for companies in all 28 member states that would compete with the likes of Facebook and Google. |
InternetNews
October 7, 2010 |
Facebook's Changes Aimed at User Control Leading social network Facebook has introduced a host of new features that promote closer interaction and elevate users' control over how information is collected. |
Chemistry World
November 22, 2010
Akshat Rathi |
Irish drug industry fears bailout tax terms Any increase in Ireland's corporation tax rate as part of a financial bailout could hurt the country's rapidly expanding pharmaceutical industry, currently its largest contributor to corporation tax. |
InternetNews
August 12, 2009 |
Facebook Plans Stripped-Down 'Lite' Version Facebook is testing a faster, bare-bones site to appeal to users without broadband access. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2011 |
Zuckerberg Latest Victim of Facebook Hack The CEO of the world's largest social networking site had his own fan page hacked just as the company unveils new security improvements. |
InternetNews
February 17, 2009
David Needle |
Facebook Scrambles to Nip Privacy Controversy Despite changes to its Terms of Service, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists users own and control their own information. |
InternetNews
July 8, 2005
Roy Mark |
States Close in on Internet Tax Collection New agreement allows states to distribute free software to simplify process but congressional sanction still needed. |
InternetNews
July 6, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Facebook Spy Gaffe Highlights Need for Policies The posting of the holiday photographs of the head of MI6 on Facebook is touted as a security breach but the real issue is one that affects all businesses. |
Bank Technology News
May 2009
Michael Sisk |
Facebook and Banks: Not Really "Friends" Despite its vast size and exponential growth, banks are finding that Facebook does not translate easily into a marketing platform. Many argue that it may never. |
InternetNews
December 17, 2009 |
Privacy Groups Call Facebook's Changes Illegal Facebook's site-wide privacy changes draw ire from privacy watchdogs who are calling for a federal investigation. |
InternetNews
May 17, 2010 |
Google Admits Accidental Wi-Fi Data Collection Google apologizes for its collection of content from open Wi-Fi access points. |
InternetNews
December 10, 2009 |
Facebook Users Still Upset at Security Changes New controls may expose even more personal data to the Web at large, charge critics. |
InternetNews
March 11, 2008 |
EU Approves Google's DoubleClick Buy Google won unconditional approval from the European Commission on Tuesday to buy Web advertising firm DoubleClick. |
InternetNews
February 8, 2010 |
Facebook Pulling Microsoft Banner Ads Facebook's exclusive ad partnership may have fallen short of promise, but Microsoft touts expanded search relationship with the popular social site. |
Search Engine Watch
June 15, 2010
Matthew Ncube |
'Facebook Privacy' Searches Plummet Keyword data indicates searchers have moved on or lost interest after outcries over Facebook's policy privacy and some online people publicly deleted (or vowed to delete) their accounts. |
InternetNews
December 3, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
CA Fires Another Shot Across Beacon's Bow Facebook's response to the security researchers' concerns is unlikely to quiet the latest critics of its controversial ad platform. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Online Privacy As Human Right? Internet Advocacy Group Pushes For New Standards The Global Commission on Internet Governance, a digital security advocacy group, met in the Hague early this morning to hammer home a citizens-first agenda for Internet privacy. |
InternetNews
December 22, 2005
Roy Mark |
Lawmakers' New Looks at Online Sales Taxes Legislation to level the taxation playing field for all in-store, catalog and online retailers is back on the table in Congress. |
InternetNews
September 14, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Revolt of The Facebook Elite The social network grew as a site for students at elite colleges. Now Facebook is expanding its registration. Users aren't happy. |
