Europe
Microsoft teams up with EU publishers amid Facebook’s Australian spat
Microsoft and European media groups have urged EU regulators to require online platforms to seek arbitration in disagreements over how to share revenues with news publishers, a sti...
Amazon and Apple stay away from French initiative for Big Tech
Amazon and Apple have not signed up to a brand new French initiative to get global tech firms to publicly commit to fundamentals including paying their fair share of taxes, governm...
Privacy activist files complaints against Apple’s tracking tool
A group led by privacy activist Max Schrems has filed complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities over Apple’s internet tracking tool, alleging that it all...
Europe charges Amazon with using dominance and data to squeeze rivals
The European Union charged Amazon with damaging international competition within the retail space, alleging that the US tech titan uses its size, power and information to obtain an...
Facebook launches dating service in Europe
Facebook has said it is launching its own dating service in 32 European countries after the rollout was postponed earlier this season due to regulatory concerns.
Sweden bans Huawei and ZTE from upcoming 5G networks
Sweden has banned telecoms gear from Huawei Technologies and ZTE within its own 5G community, linking other European nations that have restricted the use of Chinese providers on sa...
US sanctions turn up heat but Huawei serving European 5G clients
Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies is finding it harder to counter US sanctions made to fend off its accessibility to semiconductors but will continue to function European 5...
Wanted: global digital tax push after pandemic, US vote stall talks
Negotiators from 140 countries will inquire Washington and its own G20 partners this week to reaffirm political support for global rules to tax digital giants following the coronav...
Microsoft Corp plans to build hub for cloud services in Greece
Microsoft is to construct a data centre hub in Greece as it erupts in cloud solutions infrastructure in the nation, a boon to an economy weakened by a decade-long debt crisis and t...
ECB must prepare to issue a digital euro
The European Central Bank should prepare to issue a digital euro to complement banknotes “if and when” it becomes necessary, ECB board member Fabio Panetta has said tod...
Huawei Technologies ready to reveal its inner workings
Huawei Technologies is prepared to be thoroughly analysed to demonstrate that its technology doesn’t pose any threat to the states that includes its gear in the invention of ...
Bing, along with smaller firms, win Google’s Android search auction in Europe
Microsoft’s Bing, PrivacyWall and Info.com were among the search engines which won a penny auction by Alphabet’s Google to show up as search choices on new Android appa...
Amazon orders 1,800 electric vans for European deliveries
Amazon.com has ordered 1,800 electric vans from Mercedes-Benz because of its European shipping fleet, as part of the internet merchant’s plans to run a carbon neutral busines...
COVID-19 accelerates European utilities’ digital drive
When the coronavirus pandemic plunged Italy to lockdown, it was decision time at Verampio power station. The control room, which runs a number of hydroelectric plants across the Pi...